Principal Architect - SRE & Infrastructure Services

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.

Here, how we empower our people is extraordinary: Glassdoor Best Places to Work 2025, Great Place to Work-Certified in five countries, and Cigna Healthy Workforce honors three years running — and what we build is world-class: recognized as CybersecAsia’s Best in Critical Infrastructure 2024 — 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.

DevOps Architect

We are looking for a Principal Architect to join our North America team, reporting to the head of SRE and Infrastructure Services. In this role, you will serve as a technical lead within the SRE / DevOps team to fully automate the provisioning, deployment, management and monitoring for a rapidly evolving and highly scalable set of SaaS services. The Principal Architect will work as part of an extended architecture team of solution-specific architects to ensure best practices are implemented across applications. The role entails setting direction for strategic initiatives such as CI/CD and enterprise monitoring, and it involves mentoring junior team members and guiding more tactical automation projects. 

You’re the ideal candidate if you enjoy improving engineering efficiency, mentoring junior members, promoting best practices, and digging into the technical details as necessary. 

Be a Contributor — What You’ll Do

• Architect fully automated CI/CD patterns utilizing Kubernetes, Flux and other cloud technologies 
• Architect monitoring and management solutions for cloud-based products using a combination of commercial off-the-shelf and homegrown solutions 
• Collaborate with application architects on standardized and scalable methods to manage logs, service elements, etc. 
• Incorporate AI enabled tooling – both COTS and home-grown (observability, pipeline efficiency, SRE troubleshooting, etc.) 
• Design and develop DevOps tools to reduce manual toil, improve security and reduce human error 
• Build resilient and self-scaling systems that minimize customer impacts, while providing a healthy work environment for operators 

Be Prepared — What You Bring

Be Successful — Your Path

First 90 Days: Immerse in our culture, connect with mentors (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: Have a shared understanding of Infoblox’s world class DevOps operations, injected new ideas into work streams in progress and created a high performing Engineering team and culture. 

One Year: Collaborate with architects and other Engineering leaders across development teams in the quest for engineering efficiency, incorporate GenAI to create digital agents and build tooling that reduces toil and improves mean time to resolution of production issues and serve as a guiding leader for both short- and long-term DevOps initiatives. 

Belong— Your Community

Our culture thrives on inclusion, rewarding the bold ideas, curiosity, and creativity that move us forward. In a community where every voice counts, continuous learning is the norm. So, whether you code, create, sell, or care for customers, you’ll grow and belong here. 

Be Rewarded — Benefits That Help You Grow, Thrive, Belong

• Comprehensive health coverage, generous PTO, and flexible work options
• Learning opportunities, career-mobility programs, and leadership workshops
• Sixteen paid volunteer hours each year, global employee resource groups, and a “No Jerks” policy that keeps collaboration healthy
• Modern offices with EV charging, healthy snacks (and the occasional cupcake), plus hackathons, game nights, and culture celebrations
• Charitable Giving Program supported by Company Match
• We practice pay transparency and reward performance. Offers reflect role location, internal equity, experience, skills, education, and certifications. Base salary for this position: $195,000 - $300,300 plus annual bonus.

Ready to Be the Difference?

Infoblox is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, genetic information, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected basis