Head Platform Engineering

About the role

Are you ready to share your knowledge and contribute to shaping a scalable, high-traffic, multi-tenant resilient platform that serves millions of users worldwide and covers the entire insurance value chain?
Are you interested in solving complex infrastructure challenges, focusing on creating tested, maintainable and effective solutions that will simplify the life of our partners?

As the Head of Platform Engineering, you will have the great opportunity to join a diverse and motivated team, while managing the entire cloud infrastructure, and contributing firsthand to overcome current and future challenges.

What we look for

• 5+ years of engineering management experience in building, leading, and motivating platform engineering teams

• Empathetic person, caring about individuals and setting growth paths for them

• Experience in managing highly-available, high-traffic, and customer-facing services deployed on the cloud

• Experience in building highly secure, reliable, and resilient systems

• Run mission-critical services alongside product engineering teams promoting comprehensive monitoring of availability, latency, performance, and

• core business metrics. Establish effective incident resolution and incremental adoption of fault-tolerant, self-healing solutions.

• Great problem-solving skills

• Team player first, a fast, continuous-learning individual with a passion for infrastructure and coding topics

• Fluent English

What we consider a plus for this role

• Experience in software engineering in any modern language (Python, Go, Rust, Java, Kotlin, C++, C# …)

• Previous experience with AWS

• Previous experience in a regulated industry

We accept people from any background and experience. We don't ask for a specific field of study or certification.

What we offer

We're a scale-up embedded within an organization known for its high-caliber talent and excellent benefits. So, you get the best of both worlds - a fastpaced, ambitious environment with a genuine work-life balance and more. We are an equal-opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We provide feedback to all candidates via email. Please check your spam folder if you have not heard back from us.

Our recruiting process

For this position, you can generally expect a hiring process similar to the following one (based on location and availability, the process can be slightly modified):

• Qualified candidates receive feedback concerning their application from our Recruiting team.

• Phone call with HR to know each other

• Up to a maximum of four small (45 min each) interviews with different stakeholders, diving into technical and managerial topics.

• Meet with the team: based on a dialogue with engineers about technical topics, experiences, and cultural fit.

Minimum base salary for this job is 3200 eur. Our final offer to you will be set up fairly, considering the skills and experience that you bring to the Swiss Re Group.

This job offer is suitable for people who have been impacted by the invasion of Ukraine.

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity at our company. Our aim is to live visible and invisible diversity – diversity of age, race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, physical abilities, personalities and experiences – at all levels and in all functions and regions. We also collaborate in a flexible working environment, providing you with a compelling degree of autonomy to decide how, when and where to carry out your tasks.
 

We provide feedback to all candidates via email. If you have not heard back from us, please check your spam folder.

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