Senior Manager, SRE- PKI

GoDaddy

3d•Hybrid

About The Position

GoDaddy is seeking an exceptional Senior Manager of Site Reliability Engineering to lead our Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) operations. In this pivotal role, you'll lead a talented team responsible for the day-to-day operations, engineering initiatives, and compliance activities that support our global PKI ecosystem. As an SRE and infrastructure engineering leader, you'll be accountable for the operational readiness, reliability, and resilience of platforms that form the foundation of trust for millions of users worldwide. This position combines strategic vision with hands-on operational execution, requiring you to drive highly available, scalable, and secure architectures through automation, capacity planning, and fault-tolerant design. You'll lead cross-functional execution of PKI operational requirements, including ownership and participation in high-assurance, on-site data center PKI compliance ceremonies. As a Senior SRE Manager you will excel if you are a passionate technologist with deep expertise in security, applied cryptography, and distributed systems who thrives on building trust-based partnerships across engineering, security, compliance, and infrastructure teams. If you're energized by the challenge of ensuring cryptographic systems meet the highest standards of integrity, availability, and compliance while fostering a culture of continuous improvement and operational excellence, we want to hear from you.

Requirements

8+ years in Site Reliability, Systems, or Security Engineering, supporting Tier 0 or trust-critical services with proven experience in certificate lifecycle management and PKI frameworks.
Demonstrated success leading complex, cross-functional technical projects with strong background in automation, observability, and driving operations to meet established SLOs.
Experience leading and developing SRE teams with strong stakeholder management and cross-team influence skills to drive business decisions.
Proficiency with configuration management tools (Salt, Ansible), Linux systems, containerization, and monitoring tools (Grafana, Prometheus, ElasticSearch), plus scripting in Bash, Python, or Go.
Deep understanding of PKI frameworks, TLS protocols, applied cryptography, distributed systems, and compliance frameworks (SOC 2, NIST, PCI).

Nice To Haves

Hands-on experience with Hardware Security Modules (HSMs) in enterprise environments.
Experience working with public or private Certificate Authorities.
Experience working in datacenter environments during high-pressure or time-sensitive situations.
Background participating in or leading security audits and compliance assessments.
Industry certifications related to security, infrastructure, or reliability engineering.

Responsibilities

Drive long-term PKI platform strategy and infrastructure scaling, leading capacity modeling and fault-tolerant system design to ensure secure, globally scalable, and highly available PKI services.
Own and execute operational readiness and compliance programs, including high-assurance PKI ceremonies, security audits, and CAB-governed change milestones that meet strict reliability standards.
Engineer near-zero-downtime operations for Tier 0 systems through advanced automation, observability, proactive monitoring, and disciplined incident response practices.
Mentor and develop SRE talent by coaching engineers to think both tactically and strategically, elevating technical depth, operational judgment, and reliability ownership across the team.
Lead cross-functional technical projects spanning SRE, Security, and Infrastructure teams, translating strategic goals into executable workstreams with clear priorities and milestone tracking.

Benefits

We offer a range of total rewards that may include paid time off, retirement savings (e.g., 401k, pension schemes), bonus/incentive eligibility, equity grants, participation in our employee stock purchase plan, competitive health benefits, and other family-friendly benefits including parental leave.
We also embrace our diverse culture and offer a range of Employee Resource Groups (Culture).
Have a side hustle? No problem. We love entrepreneurs!
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