Hi there!

Are you passionate about immutable infrastructure, PaaS for Kubernetes microservices architecture, automation and secrets management, observability and auditing, high level of compliance (GDPR, BSI, HIPAA)?
Are you eager to learn new things and implement your own ideas while working with an international and passionate team of professionals?
Do you want to become a part of the motivated SRE Team and help us take the Data4Life infrastructure to the next level with direct impact to our digital health solution?

Your future role

• Manage and mentor a diverse and highly motivated team of engineers
• Build the team road map and ensure its successful and efficient implementation
• Contribute to defining goals and priorities within IT Operations and Engineering teams
• Learn and support Data4Life’s core services, analyze and explore ways to efficiently maintain those
• Propose improvements to the existing infrastructure, tools and processes
• Work together with the engineering department to contribute to infrastructure and projects
• Support us by advocating stability and security, raise awareness for weak spots
• Drive continuous improvements and automation in various areas, such as infrastructure deployment and provisioning, hardening, monitoring, alerting and logging
• Be part of a helpful and knowledgeable Site Reliability Engineering team

What you need to succeed

• You have experience leading a team directly and enjoy taking on this responsibility
• You have significant experience as Site Reliability Engineer, ideally operating a complex microservices architecture, based on Kubernetes and Docker
• You have exceptional communication skills
• You gained practical experience with on-premises OpenStack and/or, at least, a cloud provider like AWS
• You are comfortable working remotely with colleagues, teams and external stakeholders
• You are able to organize your own working day, even in stressful times
• You feel comfortable doing on-call duty shifts
• You are fluent in English,both written and spoken

Why you will love working with us

• Actively contribute to developing digital health solutions with a direct impact on the health and quality of life of others
• Nonprofit work with a purpose: With us, you will find a fulfilling and meaningful task in a nonprofit environment that will advance our society
• A diverse team of professionals from over 30 countries working together from 4 locations (Potsdam, Berlin, Singapore and Barcelona) 
• Free professional German classes
• A generous education budget of up to 2000 € and 2 education days per year (pro rata depending on your working hours) for courses, books, conferences, and your professional development
• Mobility support in the form of a monthly ticket (depending on your contract and location)
• Real Work-Life-Balance with flexible working hours, 30 days of paid vacation and various remote work models (100% remote, hybrid, 100% office)
• Support for your mental health: Weekly digital meditation sessions, one-on-one psychological sessions or peer group sessions with Likeminded
• A first-class corporate health insurance and company pension scheme service
• Numerous discounts, thanks to our partner “Corporate benefits”, for retailers, travel and much more
• Regular knowledge transfer through “all hands”, “town halls” and “Knowledge4Life” events 
• Several employee driven initiatives, every new colleague is welcome to participate in (for example the “Climate initiative” or “Diversity, Equality & Inclusion”)
• An extensive and detailed on-boarding program to make your start at Data4Life as efficient and smooth as possible

Good to know

• We welcome diverse candidates and are happy to support adjustments if needed, please just let us know and we’ll be happy to accommodate
• The contract is indefinite 
• You can work remotely, but only within Germany

About us

Data4Life is a nonprofit digital health organization, generously funded by the Hasso Plattner Foundation. We believe it’s possible to have a meaningful impact on healthcare by integrating technology, data, and science. Our digital solutions are designed to help people improve their own health and quality of life.

We Care

About diversity: Many different lives, careers, and development paths lead to Data4Life. We welcome experts from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences to our international team, offering everyone equal opportunities to be themselves and develop to the best of their abilities. Diversity, equality, and inclusion are not just nice words at Data4Life – we put them into practice in all of our activities and projects, striving to incorporate them in our everyday lives. For this reason, we signed the Charta der Vielfalt (Diversity Charter) in 2022.

About the climate: Data4Life is climate neutral since 2019