SRE Manager
DevOps
SRE Manager
Egnyte Poland
Poznań
Type of work
Undetermined
Experience
Mid
Employment Type
B2B
Operating mode
Remote
Egnyte Poland
Egnyte is the secure multi-cloud platform for content security and governance that enables organizations to better protect and collaborate on their most valuable content. Established in 2008, Egnyte has democratized cloud content security for more than 22,000 + organizations, helping customers improve data security, maintain compliance, prevent and detect ransomware threats, and boost employee productivity on any app, any cloud, anywhere. For more information, visit www.egnyte.com.
Tech stack
Management
Leadership
Team Management
English
Agile
Incident management
Job description
Online interview
Egnyte is a product-focused company. We build and scale our flagship product: a secure content platform called Egnyte used by companies like Red Bull, IKEA, and Yamaha. It’s a large-scale system with 16,000+ customers and over 6000 instances across geo-distributed Data Centers and Cloud providers. Our customers can access and manage their data through different devices and interfaces like mobile, desktop apps, or WebUI.
For more information about the product, visit our website:www.egnyte.com.
The opportunity:
We have over 230 employees in Poland and are still increasing the size of our team driven by growing business demands and opportunities. To support this goal, we’re looking for an SRE Manager for the Observability Team with experience in Data Center Operations, Service Reliability, and Engineering awareness in a SaaS environment.
We are looking for an experienced leader who will be working directly with the engineers, hand in hand with other members of the Operations and Engineering leadership team. A person who makes sure engineers are working on the right things and enabling their growth.
As an SRE Manager, you will be reporting to the Director of SRE. At the same time, you will enjoy full autonomy regarding the team you manage, and focus on service reliability in accordance with target SLOs and SLAs.
Your day-to-day at Egnyte:
Egnyte is a remote-friendly organization, so our employees have the possibility to work from their home offices or Polish HQ located next to the scenic Lake Malta.
Here’s what you will do as an SRE Manager, Observability at Egnyte:
Here’s what you will do as an SRE Manager, Observability at Egnyte:
- Participate in daily status meetings with the team working on-site and remotely
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Effective team building:
- direct involvement in the recruitment process
- building long term team competency in the SRE Observation team
- setting up career development plans for team members
- providing business context regarding the items the team needs to deliver
- lead the existing SRE Observability team
- Provide service reliability
- Promote good practices in service management and manage technical operations in a 24/7 model
- Manage troubleshooting skills in the team to hunt down the root causes of issues and persistence in preventing them from happening again
- Ensure all important data is collected and managed
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Stimulate dialogue between Operations and Engineering teams:
- to ensure the requirements are well defined and known
- to ensure a variety of implementations are properly prioritized
- Be an active member of the Operations Team who participates in operations and engineering-wide processes improvement initiatives
- Promote good practices in service management
- Drive innovation by encouraging and supporting your team in looking for smart solutions, also influencing already existing IT processes to improve the work environment
- Improve system stability by better visibility and reporting
About you:
- 2+ years of experience in an operations/monitoring/service leadership role, ideally in SaaS company
- Experience in managing and building a geographically dispersed team
- Good judgment when to step in and when to step back to give your team space to act
- Experience within Incident and Request Management, including SWAT calls
- Strong leadership, ownership and facilitation skills
- Advanced communication skills
- Solid English in speech and writing
Bonus points:
- Understanding of cloud infrastructure and DevOps tooling
- ITIL experience
- Previous experience in a technical role
