Director Cloud Delivery Assurance

At Infoblox, every breakthrough begins with a bold “what if.” What if your ideas could ignite global innovation? What if your curiosity could redefine the future? We invite you to step into the next exciting chapter of your career journey. Bring your creativity, drive, your daring spirit, and feel what it’s like to thrive on a team big enough to make an impact, yet small enough to make a difference. Our cloud-first networking and security solutions already protect 70% of the Fortune 500 , and we’re looking for creative thinkers ready to push that influence even further. Join us and discover how far your bold “what if” can take the world, your community, and your career. How we empower our people is extraordinary: we’re recognized as a Glassdoor Best Place to Work 2025, Great Place to Work-Certified in five countries, and honored by Cigna as a Healthy Workforce honors for three consecutive years; and what we build is world class: named CybersecAsia’s Best in Critical Infrastructure 2024 — clear evidence that when first-class technology meets empowered talent, remarkable careers take shape. So, what if the next big idea, and the next great career story, comes from you? Become the force that turns every “what if” into “what’s next.” In a world where you can be anything, Be Infoblox. Director, Cloud Delivery Assurance The Opportunity We have an opportunity for a Director, Cloud Delivery Assurance to build and lead our new Cloud Delivery Assurance team within SaaS Platform Engineering in Pune or Bangalore, India, reporting to the VP, Engineering. In this pivotal role, you will make release readiness a defensible, engineering-owned decision. You will establish a team of automation and delivery-assurance engineers, define the roadmap from manual and inconsistent release checks to an automated artifact-promotion pipeline, and own the quality gates that govern promotion of SaaS software from development clusters through integration and staging environments into production. Collaborating closely with Solutions QA, Site Reliability Engineering, DevOps, CloudOps, application, and platform teams, you will create the integration-quality, automation, and production-readiness operating model that validates the combined system before customers experience it. You will establish trusted environments, shared tooling, and evidence-based release-readiness gates while complementing—not duplicating—the charters of Solutions QA, DevOps, and SRE. You are the ideal candidate if you have built quality or delivery-assurance organizations from the ground up, are fluent in Kubernetes-based cloud platforms and CI/CD, and are comfortable making clear, data-backed decisions when the evidence does not support a release. Be a Contributor — What You’ll Do Build the CDA strategy, roadmap, operating model, and staffing plan; align scope, milestones, investment, and success measures with the SVP, Platform Engineering and peer engineering leaders Hire, lead, coach, and develop a team of one technical project manager and eight software development engineers in test; establish the team charter, operating cadence, engineering standards, and inclusive culture Own the automated artifact-promotion pipeline from CI build and security-scan validation through development-cluster smoke testing, integration and certification runs, staging certification, and production promotion Define, implement, and enforce quality gates for each promotion decision, including entry and exit criteria, required evidence, hold-and-return behavior, risk acceptance, and rollback expectations Serve as the accountable approver for promotion of SaaS software across development, integration, staging, and production environments; make go/no-go recommendations defensible with data Establish a common test-automation framework, shared libraries, and fit-for-purpose test environments for API, integration, end-to-end, regression, performance, and deployment-verification testing Apply AI-assisted engineering tools, including code assistants, test-generation capabilities, and intelligent analytics, to improve productivity, expand meaningful test coverage, identify risk patterns, and support—not replace—engineering judgment Govern responsible use of AI-generated code and test assets through human review, security and privacy controls, traceability, and measurable quality outcomes Deliver readiness scorecards, quality and risk heatmaps, coverage and escape-rate metrics, defect trends, mean-time-to-detect measures, and environment and release status for engineering leadership Partner with Solutions QA on end-to-end functional coverage and release sign-off, and with SRE on stress, scale, high availability, disaster recovery, and chaos testing Be Prepared — What You Bring Fifteen or more years of experience in software engineering, quality engineering, test automation, platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or delivery assurance, including five or more years leading and growing engineering or QA teams Proven success defining and delivering quality, automation, and release-readiness strategies for cloud-native SaaS platforms Deep understanding of Kubernetes, Linux, containers, public cloud environments such as AWS or GCP, distributed systems, and microservices Strong command of CI/CD practices, including pipeline design, artifact promotion, progressive delivery, canary releases, deployment verification, and automated quality gates using tools such as Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Argo, or Spinnaker Expertise in test-automation architecture across API, integration, end-to-end, regression, performance, and production-readiness testing, with the technical depth to review designs and code Experience building metrics-driven programs using measures such as coverage, escape rate, defect trends, mean time to detect, release risk, and environment stability Practical experience using AI-assisted development, test-generation, analytics, automation, content-generation, or decision-support tools, with an understanding of responsible AI practices and appropriate human oversight Demonstrated ability to influence without authority across QA, SRE, DevOps, product, application, and platform teams while maintaining a consistent quality bar under delivery pressure Experience hiring and scaling engineering teams in India, preferably across distributed or multi-site environments, and building an inclusive, high-accountability culture Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or a related technical field; a master’s degree is a plus Be Successful — Your Path First 90 Days: Immerse in our culture, connect with mentors through Blox Buddies, and map the systems and meet with key stakeholders that rely on your work. Discuss and create short/long-term goals. Six Months: Operate automated build and development-cluster validation gates for every release candidate, with promotion decisions recorded and evidence collected automatically Establish the common test-automation framework and shared libraries, with regression suites running on a predictable schedule against a protected certification baseline Launch readiness scorecards and quality-risk reporting, including AI-assisted aggregation and analysis of release evidence with human review and clear auditability Complete staffing and onboarding for the CDA team, with the technical project manager driving milestones, dependencies, and stakeholder communications Define baseline measures for coverage, escape rate, defect trends, environment stability, and release-cycle efficiency; use the data to prioritize improvements One Year: Establish CDA as the mandatory release-readiness gate for the SaaS platform, with staging certification and production-promotion decisions consistently supported by objective evidence Automate critical regression coverage for release candidates and demonstrate measurable improvement in customer-found defects and release