Site Reliability Engineering Lead

Trust in SODA; Düsseldorf; On-site; EUR 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Trust in SODA is seeking a Site Reliability Engineering Lead to elevate reliability, scalability and automation of our global infrastructure. You will lead a specialist team across cloud, data centres and networking, aligning architecture with operational performance while staying hands-on.

The role blends leadership with technical execution, shaping roadmaps for GCP, on‑prem and hybrid environments, driving IaC with Terraform and Ansible, and improving observability and incident response.

Qualifications

• Experience leading engineers in SRE, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure or Network Engineering.
• Strong understanding of cloud and on-premise infrastructure, ideally including Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Solid networking knowledge, including TCP/IP, BGP and OSPF.

Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of infrastructure and network engineers, setting technical priorities and delivery objectives.
• Own the infrastructure roadmap across GCP, on-premise systems and hybrid networking.
• Drive infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible and related infrastructure-as-code tools.
• Improve availability, observability and incident response through effective monitoring, reliability targets and post-incident reviews.
• Guide network architecture and connectivity across routing, switching, firewalls and hybrid cloud environments.
• Support Kubernetes-based platforms and improve infrastructure provisioning, deployment and operational workflows.
• Manage capacity planning, hardware lifecycle, supplier relationships and infrastructure cost optimisation.

Skills

Team leadership

SRE leadership

Infrastructure automation

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

GCP

Networking knowledge

CI/CD

English fluency

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

Job description

Salary: €90,000 - €110,000 +fantastic company benefits

The Role

An international technology organisation is looking for a Site Reliability Engineering Lead to improve the reliability, scalability and automation of its infrastructure.

You'll lead a specialist team working across cloud infrastructure, data centre operations and networking, with responsibility for technical direction, architecture and operational performance.

This is a combination of engineering leadership and hands-on technical involvement, rather than a purely managerial position.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and develop a team of infrastructure and network engineers, setting technical priorities and delivery objectives.


• Own the infrastructure roadmap across GCP, on-premise systems and hybrid networking.


• Drive infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible and related infrastructure-as-code tools.


• Improve availability, observability and incident response through effective monitoring, reliability targets and post-incident reviews.


• Guide network architecture and connectivity across routing, switching, firewalls and hybrid cloud environments.


• Support Kubernetes-based platforms and improve infrastructure provisioning, deployment and operational workflows.


• Manage capacity planning, hardware lifecycle, supplier relationships and infrastructure cost optimisation.

Technical Requirements

• Experience leading engineers in SRE, Platform Engineering, Infrastructure or Network Engineering.


• Strong understanding of cloud and on-premise infrastructure, ideally including Google Cloud Platform (GCP).


• Solid networking knowledge, including TCP/IP, BGP and OSPF.


• Hands-on experience with Terraform, Ansible or equivalent automation tools.


• Familiarity with Kubernetes, Linux and CI/CD.


• Experience improving production reliability, monitoring and incident management.


• Strong communication and team leadership skills, with the ability to remain technically involved.


• Professional fluency in English.

Additional experience valued:

Juniper networking, GCP Interconnect, VPN, data centre or colocation environments, Prometheus, Helm, Istio and Cilium.

The Opportunity

Take ownership of infrastructure strategy and reliability while leading a specialist engineering team across cloud, networking and data centre technologies. You'll have scope to influence architecture, modernise operations and improve how infrastructure is built and maintained.