Lead Engineer – Service Platform

Responsibilities

• Lead a small but highly effective team of Cloud Platform Engineers, providing technical direction, mentorship, and hands‑on leadership.
• Design, manage, and continuously improve Tangany's cloud‑native platform on Microsoft Azure, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security.
• Take ownership of Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) environments, including cluster architecture, lifecycle management, upgrades, security hardening, capacity planning, and operational excellence.
• Administer and optimize Git Hub Enterprise and Azure Dev Ops services, including repository governance, CI/CD platform capabilities, access management, automation, and developer workflows.
• Establish and evolve comprehensive observability capabilities using Grafana, Prometheus, Azure Monitor, and related tooling, ensuring actionable monitoring, alerting, logging, and performance insights across the platform.
• Collaborate closely with product development teams to improve developer productivity, platform reliability, and overall developer experience through Internal Development Platform (IDP) capabilities.
• Support second‑line and ISO teams in meeting IT compliance requirements related to security, risk management, business continuity, incident management, ICT outsourcing, and governance.
• Drive platform reliability and operational excellence through infrastructure‑as‑code, automation, standardization, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Take technical ownership of cloud‑based platforms and services, ensuring technical quality, maintainability, scalability, and long‑term strategic evolution.

• 10+ years of experience in software development, development operations, and release management.
• 3+ years of experience in team leadership.
• Deep understanding of Microsoft Azure cloud architecture best practices: security, reliability, performance efficiency, operational excellence, and cost management.
• Proven experience in building cloud solutions in highly regulated environments.
• Hands‑on experience with Terraform, shell scripting, Git‑based workflows, and implementing CI/CD pipelines.
• Enthusiasm for blockchain technologies; blockchain knowledge is a plus.
• Excellent communication skills and a collaborative mindset.
• Fluent in English (B2+);
  German is a plus.