Site Reliability Engineering Lead (f/m/d)

Location: Bochum, Germany; on-site

Company

hirify.global develops AI code review and verification products that help enterprises build reliable, secure, maintainable, and compliant software.

What you will do

• Lead and mentor a team of Cloud Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers.
• Set and maintain high standards for system reliability, performance, and security.
• Manage operational workload, on-call health, incident response, and automation to reduce manual toil.
• Promote blameless post-mortems, continuous improvement, and architectural knowledge sharing.
• Collaborate with value stream squads to operate a governed production platform that meets developer needs.
• Define the squad vision around resiliency, business continuity, cost optimization, and platform engineering.

Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience with significant focus on SRE, cloud operations, or infrastructure engineering.
• Deep understanding of DevOps and SRE practices, including management of mission-critical shared services such as Aurora databases, OpenSearch, and control planes.
• Advanced AWS or comparable cloud provider expertise, including IAM, organizational units, and account vending at organizational scale.
• Experience with infrastructure coding lifecycles and code review using Python, CDK, or Terraform.
• Experience defining observability patterns for logging, tracing, and metrics, as well as disaster recovery and business continuity strategies.
• Experience with Agile methodologies and cloud cost optimization, including rightsizing, Spot Instances, and Reserved Instances.

Culture & Benefits

• Employee position with pension contributions, including a company-financed 3% gross salary benefit and a voluntary scheme with a 15% company contribution from social security savings.
• Public transport reimbursement covering 60% of an annual subscription.
• Annual discretionary company growth bonus.
• Global workforce spanning 20+ countries and 35+ nationalities.
• Annual company kick-off held at an international location.
• Inclusive workplace with equal-opportunity employment practices and accommodation support.