Manager of Site Reliability Engineering (FinTech)

TL;DR

Manager, Site Reliability Engineering (FinTech): Leading and developing a regional SRE organization across EMEA, ensuring the reliability, performance, and scalability of production systems. Focus on driving operational excellence, implementing automation, and partnering with engineering and product teams to deliver resilient services.

Location: Onsite in Paris, France. This role involves leading a distributed team across the Philippines, Romania, and France, requiring collaboration across time zones.

Company

hirify.global is a global financial technology company focused on empowering others to accomplish more.

What you will do

• Lead, mentor, and develop a distributed SRE team, conducting performance evaluations and career development.
• Define and implement SRE best practices, overseeing incident response and driving post-incident reviews.
• Partner with engineering, product, and infrastructure leaders to shape and execute the technical roadmap.
• Promote and implement automation across operations, deployments, monitoring, and recovery.
• Manage relationships with external service providers and provide technical guidance to internal teams.
• Communicate risks, trends, and operational insights to leadership and business stakeholders.

Requirements

• Minimum 4 years of experience managing technical teams in a production environment.
• 10+ years of experience working with production systems, infrastructure, or software services.
• Strong experience in FinTech or financial services is required.
• Solid understanding of Linux systems, monitoring tools (e.g., Nagios), deployment & automation, containers, orchestration, networking fundamentals, and FIX protocol.
• Fluent in English (spoken and written).
• Ability to work across time zones and collaborate in a global environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, engaging, and inclusive environment.
• Commitment to providing a workplace that empowers associates to be authentic.
• Focus on recognizing and celebrating unique perspectives.