Site Reliability Engineering – Tech Lead

Danske Bank Group IT Lithuania (DGITL) is a part of an organization, which delivers world-class digital financial solutions to customers. DGITL is newly established IT site operating from the end of 2014 but it is already the fastest growing IT organization in Lithuanian market. We have an understanding that the current change is Technology-driven, and we prioritize IT as a key component for success in our journey to drive digital disruption in the bank. DGITL teams work with complex tech challenges and develop Danske Bank’s global competitive edge on innovative digital solutions. Teams are driven by job content, share ownership of strategic services, own service strategy and lead improvement. One more important feature – senior leadership is present on site.

We are looking for “Lead/Principal” Engineer who could lead transition from traditional Platform team to Site Reliability Engineering within MobilePay. We expect him act as a Technical Lead setting the direction for a team. Main preference – practical experience of being in SRE (Site reliability engineering) team (i.e. Google or other big companies). Preferably have done that already in some companies and can work within Internal Cloud limits (eventually public cloud – but just not yet).

We expect you:

• Have been part or lead SRE team
• Have experience building and releasing Infrastructure-As-Code in a controlled environment with an understanding of full-lifecycle configuration management
• Ensure reliability, scalability and adhere to the DevOps philosophy
• Have Expertise in writing, debugging and optimizing code, and automating routine tasks
• Love coaching others, inspire and explore new ways of working
• Be an evangelist to encourage adoption of technologies and best practices across teams
• Have experience with our technology stack Stackshare (at least some of it)
• Have experience with Kubernetes and .Net Core (not mandatory, but plus)

We would like you to:

• Work with development partners to shape the architecture, design, and implementations of new and existing systems to enhance their reliability, performance, efficiency, and scalability across multiple datacentre setup
• Own end-to-end availability and performance of key services and build automation to prevent problem recurrence. Automate response to all nonexceptional service conditions
• Lead a team of Software/Systems Engineers on projects for users and be directly responsible for uptime
• Direct the development of the DevOps methodologies, discipline and technical roadmap within company
• Increase the productivity of our development teams by leading blameless post-mortems
• Be responsible for leading and directing Infrastructure as a Code automation efforts using Python/PowerShell
• Actively coach and guide our development teams to deliver a world class product 

We offer:

• An inspiring environment in a large IT organization
• A perfect opportunity to join a growing IT team and face the challenge and the opportunity to influence and shape the team in Vilnius
• Work in an international team, which concentrates on innovative business facing solutions
• An extensive training program to ensure that your skills are maintained and updated on an ongoing basis
• Highly skilled team and career opportunities
• Cross business career opportunities in bank