Lead Engineer - Service Platform (f/m/d)

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Key Responsibilities

• 1
  Lead a small but highly effective team of Cloud Platform Engineers, providing technical direction, mentorship, and hands-on leadership.
• 2
  Design, manage, and continuously improve Tangany's cloud-native platform on Microsoft Azure, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security.
• 3
  Take ownership of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) environments, including cluster architecture, lifecycle management, upgrades, security hardening, capacity planning, and operational excellence.
• 4
  Administer and optimize GitHub Enterprise and Azure DevOps services, including repository governance, CI/CD platform capabilities, access management, automation, and developer workflows.
• 5
  Establish and evolve comprehensive observability capabilities using Grafana, Prometheus, Azure Monitor, and related tooling, ensuring actionable monitoring, alerting, logging, and performance insights across the platform.
• 6
  Collaborate closely with product development teams to improve developer productivity, platform reliability, and overall developer experience through Internal Development Platform (IDP) capabilities.
• 7
  Support second-line and ISO teams in meeting IT compliance requirements related to security, risk management, business continuity, incident management, ICT outsourcing, and governance.
• 8
  Drive platform reliability and operational excellence through infrastructure-as-code, automation, standardization, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• 9
  Take technical ownership of cloud-based platforms and services, ensuring technical quality, maintainability, scalability, and long-term strategic evolution.

Requirements

• 10+ years of experience in software development, development operations, and release management.
• 3+ years of experience in team leadership.
• Deep understanding of Microsoft Azure cloud architecture best practices: security, reliability, performance efficiency, operational excellence, and costs management.
• Proven experience in building cloud solutions in highly regulated environments.
• Hands-on experience in Terraform, Shell scripting, Git-based workflows, CI/CD pipelines implementation.
• Enthusiasm for blockchain technologies; blockchain knowledge is a plus.
• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset.
• Fluent in English (>B2); German is a plus.

Perks & Benefits