Site Reliability Engineering Lead in Düsseldorf

Salary: €90,000 - €110,000 +fantastic company benefits

The Role

An international technology organisation is looking for a Site Reliability Engineering Lead to improve the reliability, scalability and automation of its infrastructure.

You'll lead a specialist team working across cloud infrastructure, data centre operations and networking, with responsibility for technical direction, architecture and operational performance.

This is a combination of engineering leadership and hands-on technical involvement, rather than a purely managerial position.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of infrastructure and network engineers, setting technical priorities and delivery objectives.




• Own the infrastructure roadmap across GCP, on-premise systems and hybrid networking.




• Drive infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible and related infrastructure-as-code tools.




• Improve availability, observability and incident response through effective monitoring, reliability targets and post-incident reviews.




• Guide network architecture and connectivity across routing, switching, firewalls and hybrid cloud environments.




• Support Kubernetes-based platforms and improve infrastructure provisioning, deployment and operational workflows.




• Manage capacity planning, hardware lifecycle, supplier relationships and infrastructure cost optimisation.

Technical Requirements

• Experience leading engineers in SRE, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure or Network Engineering.




• Strong understanding of cloud and on-premise infrastructure, ideally including Google Cloud Platform (GCP).




• Solid networking knowledge, including TCP/IP, BGP and OSPF.




• Hands-on experience with Terraform, Ansible or equivalent automation tools.




• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Linux and CI/CD.




• Experience improving production reliability, monitoring and incident management.




• Strong communication and team leadership skills, with the ability to remain technically involved.




• Professional fluency in English.

Additional experience valued:

Juniper networking, GCP Interconnect, VPN, data centre or colocation environments, Prometheus, Helm, Istio and Cilium.

The Opportunity

Take ownership of infrastructure strategy and reliability while leading a specialist engineering team across cloud, networking and data centre technologies. You'll have scope to influence architecture, modernise operations and improve how infrastructure is built and maintained.

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