Engineering Manager - Cloud Platform & Operations

What you will do

• Lead and manage a team of Engineers (Cloud Engineers and Site Reliability Engineers), providing guidance, support, and mentorship to help individuals grow in autonomy and master the complexities of cloud operations.
• Hold yourself and your team accountable to high engineering standards, specifically focusing on system reliability, performance, and security.
• Manage the team’s operational workload, including on-call health, incident response, and the reduction of manual toil through automation.
• Foster a safe culture of feedback and continuous improvement, encouraging the team to conduct blameless post-mortems and share architectural insights.
• Collaborate with other value stream squads to ensure the production platform meets the needs of our developers while maintaining strict governance.
• Communicate a clear vision for the squad that aligns with the platform engineering roadmap, focusing on resiliency, business continuity, and cost optimization.
• Partner with the Hiring team to recruit talented Engineers for the team. Participate in improving the hiring process for the team and ensuring we recruit enough to reach our goals.
• Lead by example, modeling behaviors of servant leadership and high-stakes decision-making.

Experience and qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering, with a significant focus on Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Cloud Operations, or Infrastructure Engineering.
• Operational Mindset: Deep understanding of the DevOps/SRE mindset, including experience managing mission-critical shared services (e.g., Aurora DBs, OpenSearch, Control Planes).
• Cloud Expertise: Advanced knowledge of AWS (or similar providers) and experience managing organizational-scale infrastructure (IAM, OUs, Account Vending).
• Infrastructure as Code: Experience with the coding lifecycle in an infrastructure context (e.g., Python, CDK, Terraform) and the ability to perform rigorous code reviews for infrastructure components.
• Observability & Resiliency: Proven experience defining observability patterns (logging, tracing, metrics) and designing Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity strategies.
• Agile & FinOps: Experience with Agile methodologies and a strong understanding of cloud cost optimization (Rightsizing, Spot instances, Reserved Instances).

Additional comments

This role is based in Bochum, Germany. We are unable to consider candidates unwilling to be in Bochum, but we are willing to relocate the right candidate.

Benefits

• Pension Scheme: 1st Pillar (Unterstützungskasse): Automatic, financed by Sonar, 3% of gross salary, an additional benefit in addition to your salary.
• Pension Scheme:2nd Pillar (bAV): Voluntary, 15% contribution by Sonar from social security savings.
• We encourage usage of our robust time-off allocations with 28 PTO days for our employees based out of the Geneva region, plus additional days based on seniority and circumstances.
• Sonar recognizes holidays on working calendar days. If the holiday date occurs on a Saturday, we will recognize the day on the preceding Friday. If the holiday date occurs on a Sunday, we will recognize the day on the following Monday.
• Public transport reimbursement of 60% for annual subscription.
• Generous discretionary Company Growth Bonus, paid annually.
• Global workforce with employees in 20+ countries representing 35+ unique nationalities.
• We have an annual kick-off somewhere in the world where we meet to build relationships and goals for the company.

Salary range

We value diversity, equity, and inclusion

At Sonar, we believe that our diversity is our strength. We are a global company that values and respects different backgrounds, perspectives, and cultures. We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute their best. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome all qualified applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.

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All offers of employment at Sonar are contingent upon the results of a comprehensive background check and reference verification conducted before the start date.

We do not currently support visa candidates in the US.

Applications that are submitted through agencies or third party recruiters will not be considered.