Description
Job description:We are looking for a seasoned leader to head our Infrastructure Engineering team on the way to enable smooth and secure operation of self-service cloud infrastructure at Personio. Our Product & Engineering organization works in a set of agile, autonomous mission-based teams with embedded DevOps engineers. We are building our system on a modern stack powered by AWS, Terraform, Kubernetes, Helm, GitLab CI, NewRelic, ELK.
Your responsibilities in a nutshell:
Ensuring highly reliable, performant, and secure operation of Personio’s cloud infrastructure
Management and growth of a team of DevOps and Security engineers
Promotion of DevOps and Security best practices across Product & Engineering organization
Close collaboration with Product teams to address their infrastructure and automation needs
Your profile:
Over five years of direct managerial experience in engineering teams (being an official supervisor of team members with respective responsibilities and reporting structures)
Experience building highly reliable, automated infrastructure with one of the major cloud providers (AWS preferred) at scale
Deep understanding of DevOps best practices and ability to drive them across large agile organizations
Proven ability to hire and build teams at scale
High diligence, self-organization, and reliability
Great presentation and communication skills in written and spoken English (native speaker or level C1 on a CEFR scale)
Experience working as a leader in a fast growing startup environment is a plus
Experience building infrastructure for highly regulated domains (HR, fintech, legal) is a plus
Your Learnings:
Relocation support to Munich
Market-proven, well-funded and fast growing company ($54.3M funding acquired to date)
Full responsibility within your area, ability to build large team for a highly relevant function
Direct impact on the daily work of tens of thousands of users
Creative environment with talented and ambitious team members
High-end hardware, noise-cancelling headphones
1.500 EUR of development budget per year for attending conferences, courses, buying books
Regular team events, including office dinners, skiing trips, and parties
Unu electric scooter of your choice as "company car" (see www.unumotors.com) or an additional payment for a yearly public transportation ticket
26 paid vacation days, and 3 days of home office per month
Weekly German language courses
Office in the heart of Munich (near Hauptbahnhof)