This role offers a clear path to executive leadership and gives the right candidate the chance to shape the future of IT service reliability worldwide.
Senior Director – Site Reliability Engineering | ID: 262
- Full Time
- €8000 - €10000 / Month
An international technology-driven organization is seeking an accomplished leader to take on a senior strategic role focused on system stability and reliability across enterprise-scale platforms. This position is a unique opportunity to define and implement reliability strategies, influence technical and organizational change, and steer cross-functional teams toward operational excellence.
Job Description
On this role you will be responsible for setting the technical and organizational vision that ensures consistent, high-performance delivery of digital services. You will lead global teams, drive innovation in infrastructure reliability, and align strategic initiatives with core business outcomes. This is a senior-level position that demands both technical fluency and high-level leadership, especially in distributed environments.
Main Responsibilities
- Define and implement a comprehensive roadmap that ensures the stability, availability, and resilience of critical platforms and services across the enterprise.
- Manage and mentor senior engineers and managers across multiple countries, fostering high performance, innovation, and alignment with business objectives.
- Strengthen the resilience of distributed, containerized environments—particularly Kubernetes—by leveraging automation, self-healing systems, and scalable architecture.
- Act as a senior escalation point for major incidents, leading root cause analysis, implementing systemic improvements, and ensuring operational readiness.
- Establish consistent tooling and frameworks for diagnostics, system visibility, and performance tuning to enable proactive reliability management.
- Champion infrastructure as code, zero-downtime deployment, and CI/CD pipelines to streamline release processes and reduce operational risk.
- Oversee the ongoing transition from monolithic systems to cloud-native, scalable solutions, driving modernization and reducing technical debt.
- Serve as a strategic advisor on platform stability, availability risks, and long-term reliability planning, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities.
- Promote ownership, blameless learning, and continuous improvement throughout the engineering organization.
- Define, implement, and monitor SLOs, SLIs, availability targets, and incident recovery timelines across teams and services.
- Introduce and tailor reliability engineering methodologies that align with the technical landscape.
- Build strong partnerships with product, operations, and technology leaders to coordinate priorities and support cohesive execution.
Requirements
- Extensive experience (10+ years) in engineering leadership, with at least 3 years focused on site reliability or infrastructure/platform roles
- Mastery of Kubernetes and container orchestration in production at scale
- Experience in one or more modern programming languages: Java (Spring Boot preferred), Python (Flask or FastAPI), or Golang
- Practical experience with database performance tuning and architectural optimization
- Strong familiarity with cloud-native architecture
- Ability to lead across time zones and cultures
- Confident in technical discussions and business strategy alignment, especially when influencing senior leadership
- Track record of implementing change, improving service performance, and building reliable systems from the ground up
Required Education
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field
- Executive education or MBA is advantageous, especially in technology management or digital transformation
Required Language
- English - C1
Suitable For Graduates
No
Skills
Employee Benefits
- Attractive compensation package aligned with senior-level expertise and leadership responsibilities
- Flexible work model – fully remote/ hybrid with options for occasional travel
- Defined career progression path to C-level roles
- A chance to lead transformative, high-impact programs with full strategic ownership
- Access to cutting-edge cloud, monitoring, and deployment technologies
- Opportunity to shape and influence global engineering culture
- Supportive, international leadership team committed to growth and innovation
- Investment in leadership development, certifications, and technical upskilling
- Inclusive, purpose-driven work environment focused on excellence and impact