Senior Manager, Application Operations & SRE

Systematic A/S; Denmark; On-site; DKK 1,200,000 - 1,900,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employees Club

Massages on-site

Hairdresser on-site

Sports clubs

Padel court

Canteen

ARoS access

Shopping discounts

Job summary

Systematic Aarhus is seeking a Senior Manager for Application Operations to lead a 12–14 person team in a 24/7 environment, guiding SRE practices and expanding cloud capabilities. You will mentor engineers, set strategy, and collaborate with development and infrastructure teams to meet service commitments.

In this role you’ll own incident response, manage budgets and on-call payouts, and translate strategy into actionable plans while communicating across technical and business stakeholders.

Qualifications

• 7–10 years of experience in application operations, system administration, DevOps or SRE roles.
• 3–5 years of experience leading technical teams.
• Experience being responsible for technical deliveries with full ownership of operations and management responsibility.
• Commercial understanding of contracts, budgets, and service and delivery agreements.
• Experience negotiating service agreements with internal business units as a professional partner.
• Experience handling security incidents and helping business units restore services quickly.
• Experience with high-availability, 24/7 operational environments.
• Proficiency with monitoring and observability tools, and experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure or GCP).
• Understanding of containerisation and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) and CI/CD pipelines.
• Proficiency with ITIL or similar operational frameworks, and a solid understanding of SRE principles.

Responsibilities

• Leading and mentoring 12–14 team members through regular 1:1s and performance reviews.
• Supporting incident response and coordinating deployment schedules and change management.
• Introducing SRE practices such as SLOs, error budgets, blameless post-incident reviews and toil reduction.
• Driving automation, capacity planning and operational KPIs together with development and infrastructure teams.
• Managing the team budget, time registration and on-call payout calculations.

Skills

People management

Incident response

SRE practices

Automation

Capacity planning

Operational KPIs

Budget management

On-call management

Cloud platforms

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

ITIL/SRE

Stakeholder communication

Education

7–10 years in app operations, sysadmin, DevOps or SRE

Tools

Monitoring & observability

AWS

Azure

GCP

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD tooling

ITIL framework

Job description

Systematic Aarhus is seeking a Senior Manager for Application Operations to lead a 12–14 person team in a 24/7 environment, guiding SRE practices and expanding cloud capabilities. You will mentor engineers, set strategy, and collaborate with development and infrastructure teams to meet service commitments.

In this role you’ll own incident response, manage budgets and on-call payouts, and translate strategy into actionable plans while communicating across technical and business stakeholders.