SmartRecruiters is a values-driven, global-minded, and well-funded tech employer on a mission to connect people to jobs at scale. As a global leader in enterprise recruitment software, SmartRecruiters offers a cloud-based global Hiring Success platform that allows teams to attract, select, and hire the best talent. 4,000 companies worldwide rely on SmartRecruiters to achieve hiring success—including brands like Bosch, LinkedIn, Skechers, and Visa—using recruitment marketing, CRM, AI, ATS, and a marketplace of 600+ connected vendors all within one scalable platform.

SmartRecruiters was recognized by Forbes as one of the Best Employers in 2020. We are proud to offer a collaborative, diverse, and remote-friendly work environment, as well as competitive salaries and generous equity. We believe in promotion from within, so high performance can lead to upward mobility. Needless to say, we make sure you’re taken care of. Our inclusive office environment welcomes and respects all.

As the Engineering Manager for our Cloud Platform, you will lead teams of Cloud Infrastructure and Site Reliability Engineers and will be responsible for advancing infrastructure automation, improving SRE practices, measuring the platform’s key indicators, and sharing the knowledge with the broader engineering organization. You will work with business and engineering leaders to implement a system capable of meeting the goals in an efficient and reliable manner. This role requires strong technical background and extensive leadership skills.

What you’ll do: 

• Provide technical vision and leadership for the empowered team
• Provide people management and career development for the team members
• Refine and drive DevOps culture for the whole organization
• Collaborate with other teams across R&D department to pursue highly available and reliable systems, ensuring optimal and consistent performance and platform uptime
• Drive the cloud platform automation roadmap to boost engineering productivity and support the needs of a growing customer base
• Drive and own robust observability system that predicts, detects, informs about potential issues and their root causes in effective manner
• Drive the Disaster Recovery procedures and exercises with related documentation
• Manage relationships with third-party vendors
• Manage and optimize our cloud budget
• Evangelize other team members, direct reports, and peers to win as one
• Cooperate with our global teams, primarily in Germany, UK, USA, in different cycles of product development

• 7+ years experience in building and running high-volume consumer-facing platforms/applications
• Experience managing engineering teams and leading Cloud Infra / DevOps / SRE professionals
• Experience with global high-availability distributed systems in cloud environments (AWS, GCP)
• Deep understanding of networking, Linux, IaC, Kubernetes, and microservice architecture
• Good understanding of DevOps culture and SRE practices
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written), ability to influence and drive change
• A strong focus on driving business outcomes via clear goals (OKRs) and metrics (KPIs)
• Experience in ISO 27001 and SOC2-compliant organizations is a plus

SmartRecruiters is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.