Site Reliability Engineering Manager

About This Opportunity

We are representing a confidential open-source technology organization seeking a Site Reliability Engineering Manager for their APAC or EMEA region. This is a fully remote position reporting to a global director, with opportunities to lead a high-performance devops team managing services used by tens of millions of users worldwide.

This role combines operations management, software engineering, product development, and team leadership. You'll pioneer infrastructure-as-code practices, drive gitops workflows, and help shape next-generation model-driven operations. Your team will work with cutting-edge technologies from Kubernetes to kernel-level systems in a fast-paced engineering environment.

Responsibilities

• Lead a distributed team in daily agile devops practices across your time zone
• Represent the infrastructure team to stakeholders, customers, and internal partners
• Organize, coordinate, and drive internal projects from conception to delivery
• Mentor and develop engineers to advance their technical and professional skills
• Identify and track team health indicators and implement structured engineering processes
• Ensure team focus on priorities, milestones, and deliverables aligned with organizational goals
• Meet service level agreements for customer deployments across multiple global regions
• Deliver quality managed services consistently and on schedule
• Contribute to open-source automation packages that define industry best practices

What We're Looking For

Required qualifications:

• Proven track record of exceeding expectations and driving results in technical leadership roles
• Demonstrated experience delivering software using infrastructure-as-code methodologies
• Management experience leading devops teams for SaaS or similar service offerings
• Strong understanding of testing methodologies and maintainable code quality standards
• Technical aptitude for complex distributed systems architecture and troubleshooting
• Hands-on experience with cloud topologies and modern cloud-native technologies
• Linux and operations expertise at an advanced level
• Ability to travel internationally twice per year for team events (up to two weeks duration)
• Exceptional academic background from both secondary and university education

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with Ubuntu or similar Linux distribution system administration
• Background working with agile software development methodologies
• Prior experience working in and managing geographically distributed teams

How We Work With You

When you apply through Get A Job.ai, our talent team will review your application and conduct an initial screening conversation to understand your background and goals. If there's a strong match, we'll submit your profile to our client for consideration. Please note that you should apply only through our platform—direct contact with the client is not part of this process and may disqualify your application.

Throughout the interview process, we'll provide guidance and feedback to help you present your best candidacy. Our recruiters serve as your advocate and main point of contact.

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process and are competitive based on geographic location, experience, and performance. Our client offers performance-driven bonuses, annual compensation reviews, a personal learning budget, recognition rewards, comprehensive leave policies, and other benefits that support distributed work.

Equal Opportunity

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