SRE Tech Lead

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We are seeking an experienced SRE Tech Lead to drive the reliability, performance, and scalability of our hybrid infrastructure while leading a team of Site Reliability Engineers. This role combines strong hands-on technical expertise (80%) with leadership responsibilities (20%). You will guide the team across cloud and on-premise environments, lead the adoption of modern SRE practices, and ensure operational excellence during and after our migration to AWS.

Key responsibilities:

Technical Responsibilities (80%)

• Lead the design, implementation, and optimization of AWS- and EKS-based infrastructure, including EKS Hybrid / EKS Anywhere clusters.
• Drive end-to-end migration of on-premises Windows/IIS and Linux-based workloads to AWS Cloud and Kubernetes.
• Architect and implement scalable, secure, and cost- efficient cloud and hybrid solutions.
• Define, implement, and improve monitoring, logging, alerting, within observability solutions (Datadog, Elastic, OpenTelemetry etc.).
• Ensure high availability, disaster recovery, and backup strategies across hybrid environments.
• Collaborate with development, security, and operations teams to ensure seamless deployment pipelines (CI/CD).
• Maintain technical documentation, runbooks, and operational standards.
• Identify and eliminate reliability bottlenecks, drive root-cause analysis, and reduce operational load through automation.
• Troubleshoot complex production issues.
• Provide 2nd and 3rd line technical support and participate in the on-call rotation.

Leadership & People Responsibilities (20%)

• Lead and mentor the SRE team, ensuring continuous technical growth and building strong engineering culture.
• Support team members through coaching, knowledge-sharing sessions, and structured upskilling (Windows, Linux, AWS, Kubernetes).
• Collaborate with Product, Engineering, Security, Platform, and Operations teams to ensure alignment and smooth delivery.
• Participate in planning, prioritization, and execution of SRE roadmap and key initiatives.
• Ensure clear communication between stakeholders and drive accountability for reliability goals.
• Foster a culture of operational excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement.

Skills and experience:

• 6+ years of experience in SRE, DevOps, Platform Engineering, or Cloud Engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS services (EC2, ALB/NLB, RDS, S3, ECR, IAM, VPC, CloudWatch, etc.).
• Experience managing Kubernetes in production environments (EKS, EKS Anywhere, EKS Hybrid preferred).
• Proven background in migrating and supporting IIS/.NET and Linux-based applications.
• Expertise with Infrastructure-as-Code, particularly Terraform.
• Deep knowledge of infrastructure-as-code (Terraform), GitOps (ArgoCD), automated deployments, and configuration management.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across Windows, Linux, networking, and distributed systems.
• Experience with observability platforms (Datadog, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry).
• Knowledge of security best practices in cloud and hybrid environments.
• Experience working in 24/7 high-availability environments.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and cross-team collaboration skills.
• Experience mentoring or guiding engineers in a technical capacity.

• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate/Professional or DevOps Engineer – Professional.
• Certifications related to Kubernetes (CKA, CKAD, or similar).
• Experience with containerizing legacy applications (Kubernetes/EKS).
• Familiarity with hybrid cloud environments.
• Familiarity with disaster recovery planning, change and incident management and business continuity.

• Annual Group Bonus Plan
• Food vouchers – 136 EUR per month (working full.time)
• Annual Holiday – 5 weeks per year, plus local public holidays
• Additional ‘It’s Your Game’ day off – 1 day
• Entain & Enhance days – 2 paid days off to focus on your professional or personal development
• Life Insurance / Personal Disability Insurance / Critical Illness Insurance
• Hybrid working – 2+ days in the office
• Sharesave Scheme
• Paid subscription to the mental wellbeing app Unmind and the training portal Udemy
• Referral Program 
• Amazing social events and EOY party
• Special day(s) off: birth of child, marriage, moving household, etc.
• Special offers / reductions: pharmacy, Magenta, Erste Bank

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We comply with all applicable recruitment regulations and employment laws in the jurisdictions where we operate, ensuring ethical and compliant hiring practices globally.