Job
- Level
- Lead
- Job Field
- IT, DevOps, Security
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you lead a team managing the infrastructure, handle capacity planning and SLOs, ensuring the platform remains reliable, efficient, and user-friendly for product and engineering teams.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- We run our own infrastructure. Our platform spans multiple on-premises datacenters plus public cloud, and it carries index calculation and market data workloads where correctness and latency are not negotiable.
- We are looking for a Team Head to lead the group that owns our Platform Infrastructure end to end, from the network fabric and storage layer up to the control plane and the developer-facing platform our product teams build on.
- This is a leadership role with deep technical grounding.
- You will not be writing production code every day, but you will be the person the team trusts to have an opinion on a Ceph placement group, a BGP convergence window, or a Kubernetes admission policy.
- The team, Three squads (Application Platform, Core Infrastructure, Control Plane). You set the direction, run the hiring, grow engineers, and are accountable for the team's delivery and health.
- The platform roadmap, translate business and engineering strategy into a multi-quarter infrastructure plan, and defend the trade-offs to leadership and to the team.
- Reliability, own SLOs, incident response, on-call sustainability, and the blameless post-incident process.
- Reduce toil structurally, not heroically.
- Datacenter strategy, drive consolidation of our on-premises footprint, the buildout of new sites, and the boundary between what we run ourselves and what we buy.
- Cost and capacity, Own the infrastructure budget, capacity planning, and hardware lifecycle.
- Cross-team interface, Be the partner for product, engineering, security, and IT.
- Make the platform something teams choose to use, not something they route around.
- A security-focused mindset and a high sense of taking ownership and responsibility.
- Excitement to thrive in an energetic, fast paced and dynamic environment.
- Tech stack: Kubernetes, distributed storage (Ceph or equivalent), Linux systems, networking (BGP/EVPN, firewalls, L4/L7 load balancing), messaging (Kafka, RabbitMQ), relational databases (MariaDB/Postgres), GitOps (ArgoCD), GCP.
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Our expectations of you
Qualifications
- Demonstrated leadership: line management of engineers, or tech-lead-plus scope with real accountability for a team's output.
- You have a collaborative approach to how you work and ensure all groups are communicating with an understanding of your process and approach.
- You're highly organised and have the ability to work on intricate details without losing the big picture.
- Fluency in the operational disciplines: observability, capacity planning, change management, incident command.
- Excellent written communication in English.
- You can write a design doc, an RFC, and a post-incident review that people actually read.
- You're resourceful and solutions focused, making practical considerations for all groups involved.
- Outcome-driven: you track reliability, cost efficiency, and engineering velocity as business metrics, not just technical ones.
- You're a natural problem solver and have strong analytical skills.
- You're a self-learner and have an inquisitive mind.
Experience
- 8+ years in infrastructure, SRE, or platform engineering, including significant experience running production on-premises (not cloud-only).
- Formal management experience is welcome; a strong senior/staff engineer ready to step into their first Team Head role is equally welcome.
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What we offer
- Join our motivated international team at Solactive.
- Experience FinTech excellence at Solactive.
- Enjoy our modern, flat hierarchy and startup-like culture.
- Take over responsibility from day one and build relationships in- and outside the company.
- Enjoy 30 annual vacation days, plus extra time off for Christmas Eve and New Year.
- Receive a competitive compensation package.
- Job ticket, access to Corporate Benefits, modern office space with ergonomic set-up, employee lounge, and free beverages and fruits.
- Participate in our various networking events.
- Grow both personally and professionally through our diverse training offers.
- Embrace a flexible work culture with the freedom to choose your work hours, including a hybrid work model, all within a diverse and dynamic environment.
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Solactive AG
Solactive is a leading provider of financial market indices, based in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. The company develops, calculates, and markets cost-effective indices for different asset classes such as equities, bonds, and commodities. Solactive is known for its high-quality indices, which give investors the opportunity to successfully invest in different asset classes.
Description
- Language
- English
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Banking, Finance, Insurance
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Team Lead DevOps
- Location
- Berlin
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
