Security Reliability Engineering, Lead
About the Team The Infrastructure Engineering function sits within IT and is responsible for reliably building, deploying, and operating critical on prem and hybrid environments that power internal services and critical R&D environments. This is a new, bootstrap team focused on applying strong Site Reliability Engineer
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Security Reliability Engineering, Lead at OpenAI in San Francisco. UpJobz keeps this listing high-signal for applicants targeting serious high-tech roles across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. About the Team The Infrastructure Engineering function sits within IT and is responsible for reliably building, deploying, and operating critical on prem and hybrid environments that power internal services and critical R&D environments. This is a new, bootstrap team focused on applying strong Site Reliability Engineer
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- Define and evolve infrastructure patterns for on prem and hybrid environments, including self hosted platforms, vendor supported systems, and lab environments.
- Establish standardized, production grade deployment and operational models that replace bespoke implementations.
- Partner with IT, Security, Identity, and Network teams to ensure infrastructure meets reliability, security, and access requirements by design.
- Design and mature the production architecture for IAM adjacent platforms such as Microsoft Entra using SRE principles.
- Establish common management rules and shared resources within Azure subscriptions to ensure consistent, policy aligned operations.
- Own the full lifecycle of infrastructure systems, including deployment, upgrades, patching, recovery, and ongoing operations.
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- Design and mature the production architecture for IAM adjacent platforms such as Microsoft Entra using SRE principles.
- Establish common management rules and shared resources within Azure subscriptions to ensure consistent, policy aligned operations.
- Own the full lifecycle of infrastructure systems, including deployment, upgrades, patching, recovery, and ongoing operations.
- Operate and harden shared infrastructure provisioned through Infra Terraform, ensuring repeatability, auditability, and safe change management.
- Design and implement infrastructure as code and configuration management to support shared services, identity adjacent systems, and endpoint platforms using tools like Chef, Ansible and Terraform.
- Build and operate monitoring, alerting, and incident response mechanisms to meet high availability and recoverability targets.
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