Team Lead DevOps

• 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-prem 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., To all recruitment agencies: We do not accept unsolicited CVs/Candidate Profiles. Please do not forward any CVs/Candidate Profiles to any Solactive employee in any location. Any requests for cooperation have to be addressed directly to HR. Any costs associated with unsolicited CVs/Candidate Profiles are not being covered by Solactive.

• 8+ years in infrastructure, SRE, or platform engineering, including significant experience running production on-premises (not cloud-only)
• Demonstrated leadership: line management of engineers, or tech-lead-plus scope with real accountability for a team's output. Formal management experience is welcome; a strong senior/staff engineer ready to step into their first Team Head role is equally welcome.
• 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, a 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., * Knowledge about financial services, market data, or another low-latency - high correctness industry.
• German (we work in English; German is useful but not required).
• Experience in regulated or high-compliance industries (NIS2, ISO27001, SOC2, GDPR, data sovereignty, ITIL).

• Modern Culture: Enjoy our modern, flat hierarchy and startup-like culture
• Responsibility & Connections: Take over responsibility from day one and build relationships in- and outside the company
• Vacation: Enjoy 30 annual vacation days, plus extra time off for Christmas Eve and New Year
• Competitive Compensation: Receive a competitive compensation package
• Special Benefits: Job ticket, access to Corporate Benefits, modern office space with ergonomic set-up, employee lounge, and free beverages and fruits
• Community & Networking: Engage in our various networking events
• Professional Development: Grow both personally and professionally through our diverse training offers
• Flexibility: Embrace a flexible work culture with the freedom to choose y our work hours, including a hybrid work model, all within a diverse and dynamic environment

Solactive is a technology driven index provider headquartered in Frankfurt, operating globally and growing at a fast pace. Since 2007 we have been developing tailor made and multi asset class index solutions for ETFs and other index linked investment products at competitive prices. We are currently present in Frankfurt, Dresden, Berlin, Toronto and Hong Kong. Our software development and core technology team, responsible for the infrastructure, development, operation and maintenance of our index calculation and publication engine is hiring in Berlin!