Scaled Infrastructure Operations Lead

Job Description

This position combines deep Linux/Unix domain expertise strong infrastructure engineering discipline and a modern operational mindset. It drives continuous improvement across infrastructure services ensuring evolution toward automationfirst execution actionable observability and sustainable production operations.

The position functions as a technical and operational leadership role setting direction and enabling execution through teams platforms and automation while remaining sufficiently handson to design validate and contribute to complex automation and operational solutions. It is critical to ensuring that Linux and Unix infrastructure scales through engineering excellence rather than operational overhead converting operational knowledge into durable automated capabilities that benefit the entire organization

Key Responsibilities

Scaled Operations & Engineering First

• Design operational practices to scale through standardization automation and selfservice rather than linear increases in effort.
• Define drive and govern implementation of automation tooling and monitoring to operate infrastructure efficiently and at scale.
• Ensure infrastructure services are engineered using infrastructureascode and configurationascode principles.
• Drive automation of provisioning configuration validation and operational workflows to reduce manual intervention and recurring effort.
• Eliminate recurring manual operational tasks by converting them into automated or selfservice capabilities.
• Ensure infrastructure changes follow controlled lifecycle practices aligned with software development and configuration management disciplines.
• Ensure infrastructure services are engineered with security controls embedded by design leveraging standardization automation and configuration management.

Observability & AIAssisted Operations

• Ensure infrastructure observability provides actionable insight across infrastructure and application layers.
• Enable effective correlation between infrastructure behavior and service performance.
• Drive adoption of AIassisted operational practices including event correlation noise reduction and faster incident triage.
• Use telemetry and operational signals to proactively improve reliability and prevent recurring issues.

Infrastructure Ownership & Operational Integrity

• Provide technical and operational leadership across Linux/Unix operations teams setting standards priorities and execution patterns.
• Plan design oversee the build and ongoing integrity of Linux and Unix infrastructure services supporting enterprise business systems across all environments.
• Own the endtoend integrity of infrastructure environments ensuring availability performance reliability and operational readiness.
• Provide senior technical leadership for incident investigation problem resolution and preventive operational improvement.
• Drive preventive maintenance diagnostics health checks and remediation through automated standardsbased approaches.
• Use operational data and service metrics to identify risks bottlenecks and improvement opportunities.
• Provide senior technical leadership during highseverity incidents ensuring effective resolution and contributing to incident response when escalation and expertise are required.

Education level:

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering Information Systems or equivalent practical experience.

Experience/Technical Skills:

• 7 years of progressive experience in Linux and Unix infrastructure engineering and operations within largescale enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated experience designing and operating infrastructure using automationfirst principles including infrastructureascode and configurationascode.
• Proven ability to reduce operational toil by automating recurring activities and introducing standardized selfservice operational practices including execution workflows where appropriate.
• Experience designing or operating observable infrastructure with the ability to interpret telemetry metrics and signals across infrastructure and application layers to enable proactive operations.
• Exposure to or handson experience with AIassisted operational practices including event correlation noise reduction accelerated incident triage and selected selfhealing scenarios.
• Strong understanding of incident problem and change management applied pragmatically to support scalable automated and reliable operations.
• Experience operating infrastructure in hybrid environments including public cloud platforms (e.g. AWS Azure) and onpremise systems and related HW.
• Solid grounding in infrastructure security fundamentals with experience embedding security controls through standardization automation and configuration management.
• Experience providing technical oversight of managed service providers and working effectively across internal teams and external partners.
• Demonstrated ability to operate at both engineering depth and system level balancing handson problem solving with longterm operational and platform improvement.
• Proven leadership experience in guiding engineers or operations teams toward modern engineeringled and automationcentric ways of working.
• Strong analytical and problemsolving skills with the ability to translate operational data into actionable improvements automation opportunities and preventive controls.
• Excellent communication skills in English with the ability to clearly articulate complex technical concepts to senior and nontechnical stakeholders.

What we offer

• Exciting work in a great team global projects international environment
• Opportunity to learn and grow professionally within the company globally
• Hybrid working model flexible role pattern
• Competitive salary & incentive pay
• Pension and health insurance contributions
• Internal reward system and referral scheme
• 5 weeks annual leave5sick days15days of certified sick leave paid above statutory requirements annually40 paid hours annually for volunteering activities12weeks of parental contribution
• Cafeteria for tax free benefits according to your choice (meal vouchers sport culture health travel etc.) Multisport Card
• Vodafone Raiffeisen Bank Foodora and discount programmes
• Up-to-date laptop and iPhone
• Parking in the garage showers refreshments massage chairs library music corner

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