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All of this within a single, intuitive XTB app already used by over one million users worldwide!\nWe are a certified Great Place to Work company.\nWe are looking for an Engineering Team Leader to drive the development and growth of the Site Reliability Engineering team. In this role, you will have the opportunity to shape the technical and operational direction of SRE practices, lead a resilience strategy, and play a key role in defining and delivering solutions that ensure the reliability and scalability of XTB systems for millions of clients across a growing organization.\nResponsibilities\nTeam Leadership: Shape and grow a high-performing Site Reliability Engineering team, fostering an environment of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous improvement. \nReliability Strategy: Define and drive the SRE platform strategy in close collaboration with infrastructure and development teams, ensuring alignment with organizational business objectives. Oversee reliability strategy across the organization, ensuring consistent architectural alignment, scalability, and the adoption of industry-standard SRE best practices. \nIncident Management: Own and oversee organization-wide 24/7 on-call and incident management processes. Manage incident tooling, establish and maintain operational procedures, ensure compliance with regulations, oversee reporting, and drive continuous improvement of incident response strategy.\n Data-Driven Management: Define and track measurable objectives (KPIs) for team performance. Leverage data to drive improvements and build management metrics that provide clear visibility into operational health and team productivity.\nObservability Engineering: Oversee the design, development, and evolution of the organization-wide observability ecosystem. Lead the strategy for implementing standardized telemetry, including structured logging, distributed tracing, and intelligent sampling. \nRequirements\nProfessional Background: Several years of experience in SRE, Infrastructure, or DevOps roles managing high-scale, distributed environments.\nLeadership Experience: Proven track record in a formal management role, leading, mentoring, and developing high-performing SRE or DevOps engineering teams.\n Infrastructure & Reliability: Extensive experience building and maintaining scalable, reliable, and observable infrastructure systems (Azure, Kubernetes, On-prem).\nReliability Strategy: Demonstrated ability to deliver end-to-end reliability strategies, drive architectural improvements, and manage large-scale technical projects from design to production.\nCross-Functional Collaboration: Proven ability to drive cultural change, act as a strategic partner to product engineering teams, and work effectively with distributed/remote teams.\nLeadership & Management\nExecution: Break down complex projects into actionable tasks; drive incremental value.\nGrowth: Mentor and support the professional growth of team members.\nCollaboration: Facilitate workshops; build technical community; resolve conflicts effectively.\nOperational Excellence: Drive operational excellence and reliability culture within the team; lead incident management and champion post-mortems.\nStrategy: Proactively manage technical debt; align team output with organizational goals.\nTechnical skills we expect\nProgramming & Scripting: Strong Python skills for building scalable automation, internal tools, and scripts.\nCloud & Orchestration: Expertise in managing Kubernetes, configuration management with Ansible, and designing resilient infrastructure on Azure and on-prem.\nObservability Engineering: Deep proficiency in building standardized telemetry systems. 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