Engineering Manager - SRE/IAM (f/m/d)

What if your work would empower change in an industry that essentially impacts the prosperity of the entire world? Forto is in business to disrupt logistics! Simplifying global trade has been our mission from day one. Our technology and logistics experts forge ahead each day to deliver a highly transparent, frictionless, and sustainable digital supply chain while chasing our moonshot goal of achieving climate-neutral operations by 2025.

Your role

• You will manage two of our platform engineering teams, with a total headcount of 8 engineers: Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and Identity and Access Management (IAM).
• The SRE team at Forto is responsible for reliability and developer experience. We enable our development teams to write complex business logic by providing best-in-class tooling and infrastructure.
• The IAM team is responsible for developing and maintaining the authentication and authorization services for our self-developed platform and employee-facing systems. 
• We have a production environment based on GCP, AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Helm. On top of that, we have self-service tools written in Typescript and a bit of Go.
• “You build it, you run it” is a goal for our developers. We love to improve our engineers' lives so they can build, run, observe, and generally own the software they write on all levels.

 You will

• Lead two highly skilled teams of platform engineers and software developers.
• Help develop a multi-year vision with incremental deliverables, adjusting well-defined processes to changing business requirements and ensuring roadmap delivery.
• Establish high technical standards through processes and culture.
• Mentor and coach engineers to help them create a fulfilling career and build individual solid contributors and leaders.
• Work across functions within engineering and product to drive developer experience and site reliability topics.
• Improve team autonomy by enabling & empowering Forto engineers to own security, reliability, and observability as non-functional requirements of their products. 
• Ensure roadmap delivery, align the team on the implementation path of product strategy, and balance the needs of building, maintaining, refactoring, scaling, and extending features to support the technology's life properly.
• Design, plan and ensure delivery of software and infrastructure to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Forto's services. 

What You Bring

• At least 8 years of Engineering experience and 4 years of Engineering Management experience. Existing expertise in Platform Engineering is required.
• Ability to attract, hire, and coach world-class engineers. You can up-level existing teams by hiring top-notch senior talent, growing leaders, and helping struggling members. You can gain the trust of the team and guide their careers.
• You navigate and lead a team through challenging situations.
• You enjoy building an agile and blameless culture plus an organization from scratch.
• You like to iterate on problems instead of making and syncing big plans upfront.
• You know how to drive a cross-functional change.
• You have a solid understanding of cloud and platform technologies.
• Hands-on knowledge of the following is a plus: GCP (preferred) or AWS, Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform

Why Us - You can look forward to

• Personal & Professional Development: From the first day, you will have many opportunities to grow and challenge yourself through solid ownership. Of course, we will support you on this journey. 
• Impact: We are leading the digital transformation of a whole industry and share a high awareness of environmental issues on all levels, which is significantly supported by our management.
• Team: Join a team of over 30 nationalities and backgrounds from Tech, Logistics, Business, and more. What matters to us is a caring and welcoming environment where we embrace uniqueness and celebrate diversity.
• Working culture: Experience a company culture where we work at eye level, decisions are made quickly, and knowledge sharing and mentoring are on our daily agenda.