Team Lead - Site Reliability Engineering

About the role

As a Team Lead for Site Reliability Engineering, you will be responsible for the reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency of hosting environments. You will lead the team through a transformation toward a Kubernetes-based platform on Harvester, managing the transition from on-premise to cloud-ready architectures. This role involves both technical leadership in platform engineering and the disciplinary management of a four-person team.

Responsibilities

• Manage the operational health of hosting environments across on-premise and cloud, including availability, performance, and incident management.
• Drive the modernization toward Kubernetes on Harvester, including cluster topology, storage, networking, and disaster recovery.
• Build a production-ready Kubernetes platform using GitOps, observability, and policy guardrails.
• Design the NG Search Operator and implement auto-scaling solutions.
• Define the on-premise hybrid model, ensuring architecture portability and cost-effective capacity planning.
• Lead and develop the hosting team, fostering a culture of technical standards and ownership.
• Integrate AI tools into operations for diagnosis, automation, and monitoring.

Required skills

• Kubernetes
• Platform Engineering
• Infrastructure Engineering
• GitOps
• Observability
• Auto-scaling
• Stakeholder Management
• Team Leadership
• AI tools

Nice to have

• Harvester
• HCI
• KubeVirt
• vSphere
• ESXi
• OpenStack
• Kubernetes Operators

Qualifications

• Background in Infrastructure or Platform Engineering
• Experience with migration from Bare Metal or VMs to Kubernetes
• Experience with on-prem hybrid architectures

Benefits

• Competitive salary
• Modern equipment
• Learning budget
• Team events

About the Company

FactFinder develops product discovery technology for eCommerce, used by leading online shops in Europe with products like Next Generation and Infinity.