pbThis position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Lead Tech SRE based in Italy. /b /ppWe are looking for a hands-on technical leader to own the architecture, delivery, and continuous improvement of a growing cloud orchestration platform. In this fully remote role, you will lead a small Site Reliability Engineering team while remaining deeply involved in infrastructure design, automation, and incident response. You will build and scale a fleet of dedicated customer environments on Google Cloud, ensuring reliability, security, and operational consistency as the platform moves from Beta toward General Availability. Working closely with the CTO, platform engineering, and security teams, you will define the technical roadmap and translate complex requirements into practical solutions. You will have significant ownership over architectural decisions, delivery standards, observability, and cloud cost optimization. This is an engineering leadership opportunity for someone who enjoys setting direction while actively building and operating production systems. /pbr/h3Accountabilities /h3ullipOwn the target architecture of the managed cloud platform on Google Cloud Platform (GCP), including dedicated customer environments, clusters, networks, databases, queues, infrastructure templates, and regional deployment strategy. /p /lilipDefine the architectural roadmap and guide the platform's evolution from Beta to General Availability, balancing customer isolation, reliability, scalability, and infrastructure costs. /p /lilipWrite and maintain technical specifications, design documents, RFCs, and Architecture Decision Records (ADRs), clearly explaining technical trade-offs and implementation choices. /p /lilipDefine Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and error budgets for services and service tiers, using them to guide engineering priorities. /p /lilipLead technical delivery across a team of three, including yourself, by breaking down architectural plans into actionable work, assigning responsibilities, reviewing implementation, and removing blockers. /p /lilipEstablish engineering standards for Terraform modules, Helm charts, infrastructure configuration, and GitOps practices. /p /lilipAutomate the complete customer-instance lifecycle, including provisioning, upgrades, scaling, backups, migrations, and decommissioning. /p /lilipOwn the deployment and release strategy using ArgoCD and GitHub Actions,



implementing progressive rollouts, rollback mechanisms, and safe upgrades across customer environments. /p /lilipBuild and maintain an end-to-end observability stack covering metrics, logs, traces, and alerting to identify and resolve issues proactively. /p /lilipLead on-call operations and incident response, including rotation planning, runbooks, blameless postmortems, and implementation of corrective actions. /p /lilipPlan infrastructure capacity for variable workloads and ensure autoscaling strategies remain effective and reliable. /p /lilipDrive cloud cost optimization through FinOps practices, including customer-level cost visibility, resource right-sizing, committed-use discounts, and appropriate use of spot instances. /p /lilipStrengthen platform security in collaboration with the security engineer, covering network policies, workload identity, secrets management, and audit trails in support of SOC 2 expectations. /p /lilipCollaborate with core platform engineering to identify product improvements that simplify cloud operations and improve platform reliability. /p /lilipLead the technical milestones for the first six months, including architecture assessment, GA specifications and SLOs, automated customer provisioning, observability coverage, and safe upgrade capabilities. /p /li /ulbr/h3Requirements: /h3ullipAt least 8 years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering, platform engineering, or infrastructure engineering, including a minimum of 2 years leading technical direction for a team or platform. /p /lilipDeep, production-grade Kubernetes expertise, including experience operating clusters at scale and managing upgrades, configuration drift, networking, and resource allocation. /p /lilipStrong hands-on experience with Google Cloud Platform, particularly GKE, IAM, VPC networking, private clusters, load balancing, and managed data services. /p /lilipExpert-level Terraform skills, including the design of reusable module structures and state management approaches that support multiple identical customer environments. /p /lilipProven ability to define technical architecture,



write detailed specifications, evaluate trade-offs, and translate designs into executable engineering plans. /p /lilipDemonstrated experience coordinating technical delivery, reviewing implementation, and guiding a small engineering team. /p /lilipStrong operational experience with on-call rotations, incident management, postmortems, and implementing lasting reliability improvements. /p /lilipBackground operating SaaS products for paying customers, with direct responsibility for production reliability and meaningful SLOs. /p /lilipFluent English and the ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fully remote international environment. /p /lilipPragmatic engineering judgment, with the ability to choose straightforward, maintainable solutions and clearly explain technical decisions. /p /lilipbNice to have: /b Experience operating workloads that execute untrusted or user-defined code, including sandboxing, gVisor, or node-pool isolation. /p /lilipExperience building or operating control planes for dedicated customer environments using Kubernetes operators, Crossplane, GKE Fleet, Config Sync, or custom provisioning systems. /p /lilipPractical GCP FinOps experience, including customer-level cost attribution, committed-use discounts, and spot node pools. /p /lilipExposure to SOC 2 or ISO 27001 audits from an infrastructure or platform engineering perspective. /p /lilipFamiliarity with workflow orchestration platforms such as Airflow, Temporal, or similar technologies, or experience with the JVM in production. /p /lilipExperience with technologies such as Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, GitHub Actions, OpenTelemetry, Elastic, Prometheus, Grafana, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch, Redis, Kafka, and AMQP. /p /li /ulbr/h3Benefits: /h3ullipFully remote working arrangement, with the flexibility to work from anywhere. /p /lilipAccess to coworking spaces worldwide for additional flexibility. /p /lilipHealth coverage, including medical, dental, and vision benefits. /p /lilipHome-office equipment provided to support a comfortable and productive remote setup. /p /lilipOpportunity to lead the technical direction of a growing cloud platform and take ownership of major architectural decisions. /p /lilipHands-on engineering leadership within a small, collaborative team. /p /lilipClose collaboration with senior technical leadership and platform engineering specialists. /p /li /ul #J-18808-Ljbffr

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