Job
- Level
- Lead
- Job Field
- IT, System, DevOps
- Employment Type
- Full Time
- Contract Type
- Permanent employment
- Location
- Bochum
- Working Model
- Onsite
Job Summary
In this role, you will lead a team of engineers to optimize cloud platforms and manage operational workloads, focusing on system reliability, performance, and security.
Job Technologies
Your role in the team
- As a member of one of our engineering teams, you'll be a key player in making SonarQube Cloud and SonarQube Server the best tools for Code Quality and Security, providing new features to deliver high-quality and powerful products and services that help our users write better software.
- You will have the opportunity to see your features come to life in Production with short iteration loops.
- While keeping our roadmap and business priorities in mind, you will be able to have a high impact on the software that we own and develop.
- By joining us you will bring your experience and expertise to help push our product to its next stage of evolution and fulfill the needs of our large user and customer base.
- Lead and manage a team of Engineers (Cloud Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers), providing guidance, support, and mentorship to help individuals grow in autonomy and master the complexities of cloud operations.
- Hold yourself and your team accountable to high engineering standards, specifically focusing on system reliability, performance, and security.
- Manage the team's operational workload, including on-call health, incident response, and the reduction of manual toil through automation.
- Foster a safe culture of feedback and continuous improvement, encouraging the team to conduct blameless post-mortems and share architectural insights.
- Collaborate with other value stream squads to ensure the production platform meets the needs of our developers while maintaining strict governance.
- Communicate a clear vision for the squad that aligns with the platform engineering roadmap, focusing on resiliency, business continuity, and cost optimization.
- Partner with the Hiring team to recruit talented Engineers for the team.
- Participate in improving the hiring process for the team and ensuring we recruit enough to reach our goals.
- Lead by example, modeling behaviors of servant leadership and high-stakes decision-making.
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Our expectations of you
Experience
- 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with a significant focus on Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Cloud Operations, or Infrastructure Engineering.
- Operational Mindset: Deep understanding of the DevOps/SRE mindset, including experience managing mission-critical shared services (e.g., Aurora DBs, OpenSearch, Control Planes).
- Cloud expertise: Advanced knowledge of AWS (or similar providers) and experience managing organizational-scale infrastructure (IAM, OUs, Account Vending).
- Infrastructure as Code: Experience with the coding lifecycle in an infrastructure context (e.g., Python, CDK, Terraform) and the ability to perform rigorous code reviews for infrastructure components.
- Observability & Resiliency: Proven experience defining observability patterns (logging, tracing, metrics) and designing Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity strategies.
- Agile & FinOps: Erfahrung mit agilen Methoden und ein fundiertes Verständnis für Cloud-Kostenoptimierung (Rightsizing, Spot-Instanzen, Reserved Instances).
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What we offer
- This role is based in Bochum, Germany.
- We are unable to consider candidates unwilling to be in Bochum, but we are willing to relocate the right candidate.
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This is your employer
SonarSource
SonarSource, based in Vernier, Switzerland, develops both open-source and commercial software solutions for the continuous analysis of code quality and security. With products like SonarQube, SonarCloud, and SonarLint, the company supports over 25 programming languages and is used by more than 7 million developers worldwide. Its roots in the open-source community are strong, and the company values transparency and continuous improvement.
Description
- Company Type
- Established Company
- Working Model
- Hybrid, Onsite
- Industry
- Internet, IT, Telecommunication
Engineering Manager - Cloud Platform & Operations
- Location
- Bochum
- Working Model
- Onsite
- Diversity
- Open for all genders
- English Only
- English only required
