Cloud Engineering Manager

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Cloud Engineering Manager based in Germany.

This role offers the opportunity to lead a growing engineering team responsible for modern cloud infrastructure and managed services.

• Lead and develop a growing engineering team, improving both development velocity and operational quality.
• Establish and maintain effective engineering and operations processes that promote reliability, maintainability, and consistent delivery.
• Define and monitor team health indicators to identify opportunities for improvement and support high-performing teams.
• Represent the engineering team with customers, internal stakeholders, product engineering groups, operations teams, and external partners.
• Ensure teams remain aligned with priorities, milestones, deliverables, and customer commitments.
• Oversee managed service operations for customer environments and help ensure service-level agreements are consistently achieved.
• Drive continuous improvement across customer deployments, engineering practices, operational processes, and service quality.
• Support the delivery of reliable and consistent managed cloud services across customer environments worldwide.
• Provide technical leadership and guidance when addressing complex distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and operational challenges.
• Foster effective collaboration within globally distributed teams while maintaining clear communication and accountability.

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education in a technology-related field.
• Proven professional experience in software delivery using technologies such as Python, Go, C, C++, Java, or similar, and/or experience managing technical operations teams.
• Demonstrated professional experience with OpenStack.
• Strong understanding of engineering practices, including testing methodologies and maintainable code quality.
• Experience with Linux system administration; Ubuntu or Debian experience is advantageous.
• Solid understanding of cloud topologies, technologies, and distributed systems.
• Strong technical aptitude and the ability to understand and communicate complex infrastructure and engineering concepts.
• Experience with agile software development methodologies and modern engineering practices.
• Demonstrated experience working within and managing globally distributed teams.
• Strong communication, cooperation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to balance technical considerations, operational requirements, customer expectations, and team priorities.
• Self-motivated and disciplined approach to working effectively in a distributed environment.
• Willingness and ability to travel for team, company, and customer events, generally up to approximately 20% of the time.
• Additional experience with Kubernetes, Ceph, related cloud infrastructure, Linux software engineering, or open-source technologies is valuable.

• Fully distributed working environment.
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year.
• Annual compensation review based on location, experience, and performance.
• Performance-driven annual bonus or commission, where applicable.
• Recognition and performance rewards.
• Annual holiday leave.
• Maternity and paternity leave.
• Team Member Assistance Program and wellness platform.
• Opportunities to travel to new locations and meet colleagues through in-person team events and sprints.
• Priority Pass and travel upgrades for eligible long-haul company events.
• Opportunity to work with modern cloud technologies, including OpenStack and Kubernetes.
• Exposure to complex distributed systems and global customer environments.
• Career development opportunities within a highly technical, internationally distributed engineering environment.