About the job

Site Reliability Engineering Lead

Location: Düsseldorf, GermanySalary: €90,000 - €110,000 + fantastic company benefitsHybrid - Onsite 3 x per week

The RoleAn 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 ResponsibilitiesLead 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 RequirementsExperience 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 OpportunityTake 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.