At Wire, we’re revolutionizing secure communication for businesses, governments, and critical infrastructure providers. Our end-to-end encrypted platform is built on a commitment to privacy and robust security, enabling organizations to collaborate confidently in a digital world. Join us and be a part of an innovative team that’s setting new standards in secure, user-centric communication.

• Employment Type: Permanent

• Experience Required: 5-7 Years of experience within a Platform Engineering Managerial position.

• Working Hours: Full-Time

• Location: Berlin, Germany (with potential flexibility for remote/hybrid work)

• Reports to: Director of Engineering

• Desired Start Date: ASAP

As an Engineering Manager Platform, you’ll be responsible for the end-to-end orchestration, advancements & stability of our production cloud. You will be the driver of our platform growth & innovation alongside leading a team of specialized engineers. You will be responsible for driving continual improvement, Operational excellence & driving initiatives to improve & elevate developer experience.

Operational responsibilities

• Accountable for Service availability & uptime. Meeting the needs of our service level agreements with customers.

• Experience in working in a fast-paced scaling environment ensuring reliability & ensuring teams are operationally prepared for Incident management, service & operational excellence.

• You will hold a leading role in defining, planning & executing against large scale Initiatives such as consolidation & Migration projects. In parallel to ensuring we maintain operational excellence.

• Ensure the platform & Operations Operating model scales with the demands for our technical & product roadmaps.

• Essential experience in design, operation, and continuous improvement of a large-scale Kubernetes environment.

• Proven experience in ensuring platform reliability, scalability, security, and developer productivity.

• Improving & enabling developer experience should be at the core of your strategic initiatives.

Technical & People Leadership

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of talented SRE and DevOps engineers

• Set clear goals, provide regular feedback, and conduct performance evaluations

• Define and lay the foundation for Wire’s internal Developer Platform.

• Manage teams' demand & capacity needs

• Work closely with Wire’s Technical & Disciplines to shape and redefine our cloud platform, providing the foundation for a successful SaaS offering.

• Define & contribute towards Wire’s Platform vision & technical strategy in parallel to supporting the delivery & requirements for our product roadmap

Operational Excellence

• Ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of our platform and services.

• Continually improve existing monitoring, alerting, and incident response strategies.

• Continuously improve system architecture and infrastructure to handle growing scale and complexity.

• Collaborate across disciplines & scopes to enable scalable and reliable systems.

• Drive initiatives to optimize cloud spending

DevOps

• Enhance the developer experience by streamlining existing development workflows, tools, and processes.

• Enable our Discipline & Scope teams to manage their CI/CD platforms (Tooling, principles & best practices). You will be responsible for driving clear requirements & roadmap items to support the cope team objectives & deliveries.

• Provide technical guidance and support to developers to help them overcome challenges and improve productivity.

• Advocate for best practices in coding, testing, and deployment.

Essential experience

• Seniority & Experience:5-7+ years of Engineering Management experience, leading our technology roadmap and guiding our team. This role is operational, requiring experience in both technology and people leadership.

• Technical Expertise: 5-7+ years of experience with Kubernetes.

• Technical Expertise: 5-7+ years of experience with Hyperscalers: AWS (mandatory)

Desirable but not essential

• Experience with other European cloud providers

• Hybrid/multi-cloud operations

Tooling / Tech stack

• GitOps and IaC: Terraform, ArgoCD

• Databases: Cassandra, PostgreSQL, Pulsar, Redis

• Impact: Join a market-proven company trusted by over 1,000 customers across diverse sectors.

• Growth: Be part of a dynamic team where your ideas will shape the future of secure communications.

• Benefits: Enjoy competitive salary packages, performance bonuses, extensive professional development opportunities, and a supportive work-life balance with perks like flexible working arrangements and a vibrant office culture in Berlin.

• Culture: Work in an inclusive environment that values diversity, collaboration, and innovation.

If you’re an experienced Engineering Manager, we look forward to hearing from you!