Team Lead Platform (m / f / d)

Join us in helping companies of different sizes and industries take their own climate action today. We are dedicated to working as a team towards our common goal: making net zero a reality.

Become part of our Digital Products team in Munich / Berlin / Barcelona, where we work in cross-functional and autonomous teams that co-create products and take ownership from idea to impact.

In platform engineering, our main challenges are creating and maintaining a platform which enables software engineers to develop, build, release, run, and monitor various products in a self-service manner and at the same time supporting engineering teams with platform usage and troubleshooting.

As the Team Lead Platform, your responsibilities will include:

• Leading a team of Platform Engineers, providing technical guidance and mentoring to help them grow and develop their skills.
• Overseeing the development and maintenance of the organization's technology platform, including infrastructure, tools, and processes.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams, including product, engineering, and operations, to ensure that the platform meets the needs of the organization and its customers.
• Ensuring that the platform is scalable and reliable, with the ability to handle increasing levels of traffic and usage.
• Working closely with the Information Security team to ensure the platform is free from security vulnerabilities and protected against external threats.

Who you are

• You demonstrate leadership qualities by thinking strategically, making sustainable and data-driven decisions, emphasizing teamwork and collaboration, being flexible and adaptable, and taking responsibility and accountability.
• You possess a deep understanding of network protocols, security practices, and the implementation of secure and efficient network infrastructures, including knowledge of authentication and authorization mechanisms, data encryption, and compliance requirements.
• You have strong knowledge and hands-on experience in building cloud infrastructures using Amazon Web Services or similar platforms.
• You utilize DevOps methodologies and tools, such as CI/CD pipelines and GitHub Actions, as well as configuration management, monitoring, and logging tools like Docker and DataDog.
• You are proficient with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Ansible for automating and managing infrastructure.
• As a bonus point, you have a good grasp of system design principles, software development lifecycle (SDLC), database (SQL/NoSQL) modeling and management, and experience with other Platform-as-a-Service providers.
• You communicate effortlessly and clearly in English.