Head of Site Reliability Engineering (m/f)
Your responsibilities:
- Support, guide, and inspire a team of site reliability engineers to operate our platforms, drive reliability and performance across massive scale by mastering the full depth of the stack
- Responsibility for maintaining and scaling our platform infrastructure while keeping our core, revenue-critical services and applications fast, stable, reliable and available
- Responsibility for automation and building automatic systems
- Solve problems arising from our large-scale operations and ensure that the same mistake/error doesn’t happen twice, whilst constantly thinking of how to automate yourself out of operational tasks
- Work closely with software engineers to influence and create new designs, architectures and standards and also provide technical consultancy to engineering teams on how to build reliable, scalable and efficient services
- Participate and drive production readiness reviews and post-mortems
- Engage in software performance analysis and system-tuning
Your qualifications:
- Experience working as an SRE manager or in a similar technical leadership position at a IaaS or/and cloud services provider
- Systems Engineering - large-scale system design exposure, in-depth understanding of Linux systems internals, TCP/IP networking, Infiniband, storage technologies
- Cloud Engineering - Strong experience with AWS or Google Cloud Platforms, solid understanding of performance and scalability requirements, security practices, automation and monitoring
- Passion for building, leading and nurturing successful engineering teams
- Good understanding of ITSM practices
- ITIL certification is a plus
- A clear and fluid communication style when articulating your ideas
- A thrill for automation and building automatic systems. Excellent troubleshooting and analytical skills
What we offer you:
- A leading technology company, flat hierarchies and opportunities for you to shape your personal development
- The possibility to further develop the technology behind our offer
- A variety of team and staff events (e.g. monthly "meet & greet" events)
- An international environment with 110 colleagues with 23 different nationalities
- Progressive training events (e.g. "lunch & learn")
- German classes for all non-German colleagues
- Free fruit and drinks selection, PlayStation and table football
- Full relocation service for employees who join us from foreign countries
- One of the most popular districts of Berlin: Prenzlauer Berg is an exceptionally varied district that offers an excellent quality of life