Hybrid Senior Manager, Product Software Architecture and Engineering

at Equinix

• Job title: Senior Manager, Product Software Architecture and Engineering
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: $177,000 - $319,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: Cloud
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Dallas, United States

About the role

• Senior Manager leading Site Reliability Engineering team for cloud and server operations at Equinix. Overseeing strategy, reliability, and operational excellence for global server infrastructure.

Responsibilities

• Define and execute the SRE strategy for server operations, aligned with organizational objectives and SLAs.
• Build and mentor a high-performing team of SREs from the ground up, fostering a culture of accountability, innovation, and continuous improvement.
• Develop the team’s roadmap for automation, monitoring, reliability engineering, and operational maturity.
• Partner with engineering, infrastructure, and security teams to ensure seamless delivery and operations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including procurement, supply chain, IBX, and compliance to support operational excellence.
• Manage CAPEX/OPEX expenditures to optimize resource allocation and drive cost-efficiency across infrastructure initiatives.
• Oversee the health, performance, and capacity of server infrastructure, ensuring optimal uptime and efficiency.
• Lead implementation of monitoring, observability, and alerting systems to detect and resolve issues proactively.
• Establish incident response and postmortem practices, ensuring root cause analysis and prevention.
• Develop and enforce operational standards, playbooks, and change management processes.
• Drive automation for provisioning, configuration, patching, scaling, and recovery.
• Identify and implement tools that reduce toil, improve reliability, and increase operational speed.
• Oversee patching, vulnerability mitigation, and compliance for server hardware and OS layers.
• Ensure adherence to security and data protection requirements.
• Manage vendor relationships for hardware, monitoring tools, and infrastructure services.
• Develop and manage the SRE/server operations budget.

Requirements

• 10+ years in infrastructure, systems engineering, or SRE roles, with 3+ years in a leadership position.
• Strong technical background in server infrastructure (hardware, OS, virtualization, cloud/hybrid environments).
• Expertise in automation tools, scripting languages, monitoring platforms, and incident management.
• Deep understanding of capacity planning, disaster recovery, and high-availability architectures.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Benefits

• Employee Assistance Program
• Insurance: You may enroll in health, life, disability and voluntary plans that are designed for you and your eligible family members.
• Retirement: You and Equinix may contribute to a retirement plan to help you plan for your financial future.
• Paid Time Off (PTO) and Paid Holidays: You will receive an accrued amount of PTO each pay period along with various paid holidays for you to rest and recharge.