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We are looking for a hands-onEngineering Managerwho will lead a team of engineers to keep GetYourGuide reliable and scalable.  You will take on the line management of existing reliability engineers in a growing and cross-functional environment. This is your chance to have a direct impact on the business by guiding your teams in optimising the reliability of the platform!

Reliability Team Mission:

The DevOps infrastructure team plays a central role in scaling, automating, and managing core parts of our cloud-based infrastructure. We act as "engineers for the engineers," helping others understand and leverage the architecture and platform underlying their features. We are currently moving to a modern, container-based microservice architecture. We use technologies such as AWS, Linux, Nginx, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Docker and Kubernetes.

Responsibilities:

• Mentor, grow, and empower your team by giving them the skills, confidence, and motivation to make decisions independently that lead to their personal and professional success


• Having a holistic approach in  hiring and onboarding people to your team by activelysourcing and applying good interview techniques


• Help the individuals on your team to build and execute personal development plans that are aligned with the company OKRs


• Being hands-on in the SRE area with automating and improving our infrastructure


• Drive cross-team and cross-org alignment around reliability between Product and Infrastructure engineering teams


• Partner with other Engineering Managers across organisation to achieve reliability outcomes for their services


• Be part of the platform engineering leadership team, shaping the company culture


• Drive and set the roadmap, together with our senior engineers, for our continued journey towards service-oriented  and cloud-native architecture

Requirements:

• People skills including the ability to lead and grow engineers at all levels


• Software support, reliability, or operations engineering experience in a highly customer-focused environment


• Good understanding of cloud services, tools and technologies (AWS, Linux, Nginx, MySQL, Elasticsearch, Kafka, Docker and Kubernetes)


• Strong technical vision for systems and infrastructure teams


• Experience in a high growth and scaling environment


• Ability to bring a collaborative partnership that drives change, and motivates engineers to develop simple solutions to complex operational or reliability challenges


• Skills in delivering team's technical strategy and roadmap, collaborated and partnered effectively with several other teams


• Capability to lead a discussion with upper management, and ability to tailor the level of technical detail to suit your audience

We offer:

• Work on a product that helps create memorable travel experiences


• Smart, engaged co-workers


• Speak English in the office with an international team


• Virtual stock options - be part of our success story


• Monthly Hackathons and weekly tech talks


• Annual external training budget - be constantly learning


• Well stocked kitchen


• GetYourGuide vouchers


• Relocation Assistance

You can get in touch with us via jobs@getyourguide.com, and make sure you check out life at GetYourGuide on our blog.

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