Berlin (CET) · Remote · Authorized to work in Germany · 4 weeks’ notice
Hands-on engineering leadership
I led a team of three SREs, owned the roadmap, and kept writing the infrastructure. The engineer I mentored now leads migrations of his own.
Hiring for
Evidence
- Led a team of three SREs — set priorities, ran planning with product owners and management, and owned the infrastructure roadmap.
- Grew a career changer from IT support into a CKA-certified platform engineer, who went on to lead the monolith migration to EKS himself.
- Carried the platform, the on-call rotation and roadmap delivery as sole senior SRE, leaning on automation and AI-assisted workflows to absorb the load.
- Lead production incident response and post-incident review, and act as the on-call escalation point for every infrastructure and cloud incident.
- Run the platform as an internal product — prioritised with the engineers who depend on it, rather than for them.
- Changed how other teams work, not only what the platform does: opening a client’s infrastructure repository to product developers, with every change going through pull-request review.
Numbers
30%
lower AWS EC2 spend
Karpenter, spot and reserved capacity, off-hours shutdown
367%
company growth in 2018
core infrastructure re-engineered ahead of Black Friday; no major incidents
The full timeline, the stack and what I am building now are on thefront page.