Site Reliability Engineering Lead (f/m/d)

Sonar Source
Germany
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeEUR 105,000 - 160,000 annuallyFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureExperience: 10+ yearsSkills: ["Mentorship","Communication","Continuous improvement","Blameless post-mortems","Servant leadership"]

Lead a team of Cloud Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers to improve the reliability, performance, and security of SonarQube Cloud and SonarQube Server. Own operational workload across on-call health, incident response, and automation to reduce toil, while guiding observability and disaster recovery/operational resilience. Collaborate across value-stream squads to ensure production platform governance, communicate a clear squad vision, and partner with hiring to scale the team.

Loading

Loading job details...

Preparing the role view and application actions.

FursaFursa
Sonar Source
Sonar Source
1 day ago

Site Reliability Engineering Lead (f/m/d)

✓ Verified Job

Canonical indexed version, validated from employer's careers page.

Source: Company careers pageValidated by: Fursa AI
Last checked: 21 hours agoStatus: Live

Job Summary

Lead a team of Cloud Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers to improve the reliability, performance, and security of SonarQube Cloud and SonarQube Server. Own operational workload across on-call health, incident response, and automation to reduce toil, while guiding observability and disaster recovery/operational resilience. Collaborate across value-stream squads to ensure production platform governance, communicate a clear squad vision, and partner with hiring to scale the team.
Location: Germany
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Lead and manage a team of Cloud Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers, providing guidance, support, and mentorship.
  • •Drive high engineering standards for system reliability, performance, and security, and ensure accountability.
  • •Manage operational workload including on-call health, incident response, and reducing manual toil via automation.
  • •Create a safe feedback and continuous improvement culture, including blameless post-mortems and sharing architectural insights.
  • •Collaborate with value stream squads to ensure the production platform meets developer needs with strict governance, and communicate a squad vision aligned to the roadmap.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: EUR 105,000 - 160,000 annually
Perks:PensionPaid LeaveAnnual Bonus

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years of software engineering with significant Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Cloud Operations, or Infrastructure Engineering focus.
  • •Advanced AWS knowledge and experience managing organizational-scale infrastructure (e.g., IAM, OUs, Account Vending) and mission-critical shared services (e.g., Aurora DBs, OpenSearch, control planes).
  • •Infrastructure-as-Code experience across the coding lifecycle (e.g., Python, CDK, Terraform) with rigorous infrastructure code reviews.
  • •Strong observability, resiliency, and Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity strategy design (logging, tracing, metrics).
  • •Experience with Agile methodologies and cloud cost optimization (rightsizing, Spot/Reserved Instances).
Experience:10+ yearsDevOpsSRECloud operationsInfrastructure engineering
Skills:MentorshipCommunicationContinuous improvementBlameless post-mortemsServant leadership
Tech Stack:AWSAurora DBOpenSearchControl planesIAMOUsAccount VendingPythonCDKTerraformLoggingTracingMetricsDisaster RecoveryBusiness ContinuitySpot instancesReserved Instances

Company Brief

Sonar Source
Builds static code analysis and continuous inspection tools (SonarQube, SonarCloud, SonarLint) that identify bugs, vulnerabilities, and code smells across multiple languages to help teams improve code quality and maintainability.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Established Company
Headquarters: Geneva, Switzerland
Founded: 2008
WebsiteLinkedIn