SRE Senior Director

An international technology-driven organization is seeking an accomplished leader to take on a senior strategic role focused on system stability and reliability across enterprise-scale platforms. This role offers a clear path to executive leadership and gives the right candidate the chance to shape the future of IT service reliability worldwide. On this role you will be responsible for setting the technical and organizational vision that ensures consistent, high-performance delivery of digital services. You will lead global teams, drive innovation in infrastructure reliability, and align strategic initiatives with core business outcomes.

This is a senior-level position that demands both technical fluency and high-level leadership, especially in distributed environments. Main ResponsibilitiesDefine and implement a comprehensive roadmap that ensures the stability, availability, and resilience of critical platforms and services across the enterprise. Manage and mentor senior engineers and managers across multiple countries, fostering high performance, innovation, and alignment with business objectives. Strengthen the resilience of distributed, containerized environments—particularly Kubernetes—by leveraging automation, self-healing systems, and scalable architecture. Act as a senior escalation point for major incidents, leading root cause analysis, implementing systemic improvements, and ensuring operational readiness.

Establish consistent tooling and frameworks for diagnostics, system visibility, and performance tuning to enable proactive reliability management. Champion infrastructure as code, zero-downtime deployment, and CI/CD pipelines to streamline release processes and reduce operational risk. Oversee the ongoing transition from monolithic systems to cloud-native, scalable solutions, driving modernization and reducing technical debt. Serve as a strategic advisor on platform stability, availability risks, and long-term reliability planning, ensuring alignment with enterprise priorities. Promote ownership, blameless learning, and continuous improvement throughout the engineering organization. Define, implement, and monitor SLOs, SLIs, availability targets, and incident recovery timelines across teams and services.

Introduce and tailor reliability engineering methodologies that align with the technical landscape. Build strong partnerships with product, operations, and technology leaders to coordinate priorities and support cohesive execution. RequirementsExtensive experience (10+ years) in engineering leadership, with at least 3 years focused on site reliability or infrastructure/platform rolesMastery of Kubernetes and container orchestration in production at scaleExperience in one or more modern programming languages:

Java (Spring Boot preferred), Python (Flask or FastAPI), or GolangPractical experience with database performance tuning and architectural optimizationStrong familiarity with cloud-native architectureAbility to lead across time zones and culturesConfident in technical discussions and business strategy alignment, especially when influencing senior leadershipTrack record of implementing change, improving service performance, and building reliable systems from the ground upRequired LanguageEnglish - C1Employee BenefitsAttractive compensation package aligned with senior-level expertise and leadership responsibilitiesFlexible work model – fully remote/ hybrid with options for occasional travelDefined career progression path to C-level rolesA chance to lead transformative, high-impact programs with full strategic ownershipAccess to cutting-edge cloud, monitoring, and deployment technologiesOpportunity to shape and influence global engineering cultureSupportive, international leadership team committed to growth and innovationInvestment in leadership development, certifications, and technical upskillingInclusive, purpose-driven work environment focused on excellence and impactSalary7.

000 - 10. 000 EUR / gross