Head of Infrastructure Engineering (m/f/d)

Created on 27-01-2019

Location Munich

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Description

The Role:

At Personio we are on the amazing journey of becoming the leading HR Platform in Europe!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.Role & Responsibilities

Enable of the highest possible quality of Infrastructure and Security standards from the technical standpoint in the organization
Manage and grow a team of DevOps and Security engineers
Drive the Infrastructure Engineering team building and staffing
Enable result-oriented project management in the Infrastructure Engineering domains
Keep internal stakeholders aligned and informed about relevant Infrastructure Engineering activities
Promote and drive best practices in Infrastructure Engineering and DevOps across the organization
Contribute to development of Personio’s engineering strategy

What you need to succeed:

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

Why Personio:

Market-proven, well-funded and fast growing company ($130M funding acquired to date)
As you are joining Personio at such an early stage, this shows us your trust and confidence in us. We would like you to profit from the success of the company, and therefore, we offer you a competitive compensation package (salary, benefits and virtual shares)
Your chance to play a decisive role in shaping Personio and have a direct impact on the daily work of hundreds of thousands of users
1.500 EUR of development budget per year for attending conferences, courses, buying books
MacBook Pro and gadgets, including BOSE headsets with noise cancellation
28 paid vacation days, at least 3 days of home office per month, and flexible working hours
Unu electric scooter of your choice as "company car" (see www.unumotors.com) or an additional payment for a yearly public transportation ticket
Subsidized Qualitrain membership: For 25 euros a month you can train in 90 fitness and yoga studios, swimming pools and many other sports facilities in Munich
Relocation and visa support through an expert agency to Munich, Germany
Weekly German language courses
Regular team and company events (e.g. Oktoberfest in Munich and skiing trip to Austria)