Alex Bligh

Background

About Alex Bligh

As Senior Engineering Director at Google with 9+ years of tenure, I lead the Infrastructure Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team, ensuring the reliability of Google’s global infrastructure platform. My internal customer base spans cloud, search, ads, and machine learning. I manage a team of over 300 engineers across two continents and seven sites. My focus includes scheduling, machine management, infrastructure security, capacity management and efficiency. I have deep experience maintaining production excellence, driving efficiency, and supporting critical systems for monitoring, logging, and alerting. I have particular recent experience in working with teams managing deployment of hyper-scale datacenters with conventional and AI/ML infrastructure, working to ensure excellent reliability and efficiency outcomes.With expertise in distributed systems, team management, cross-functional co-ordination and managing timelines, I am deeply committed to delivering reliable infrastructure solutions that enable innovation at a global scale. My approach emphasizes collaboration, operational excellence, and strategic alignment to ensure resilience and scalability across all projects.