Head of SRE Platform Engineering

The SRE Platform Engineering Lead will manage the Nokia IT Engineering SRE Team. This team support migrating our IT workloads from the on-prem datacenters to the public Clouds (Azure & Google). Migrations can also be from Cloud-to-Cloud. The team also ensure our adherence to Nokia Cybersecurity standards for all Cloud workloads and providing critical L3 support.

5+ years of overall experience in Cloud or Software Engineering

Experience with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)

Experience with Platform Engineering

Working with geographically distributed team across multiple time zone

3-5 years Infrastructure or Solution Architecture Experience designing and implementing cloud-based solution architectures for PaaS, IaaS or SaaS.

Hands on experience with one of the three primary public clouds:AWS, GCP (preferred), or Azure.

Knowledge or experience designing and implementing automation solutions like Infrastructure as Code (IAC) solutions to build up and tear down infrastructure using Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, GCP Deployment Manager, or Azure DevOps

Excellent verbal and written communications skills as well as the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations.

 Soft Skills 

Focused on quality and delivering results

Take ownership and accountability

Flexible in taking up different roles and tackling multiple technologies

Work collaboratively on projects and help achieving company goals

Strong analytic, organization, presentation, customer service and facilitation skills

Ability to prioritize and execute on multiple concurrent initiatives with related or independent goals

Be a Voice of Customer to share insights and best practices, connect with Engineering team to remove key blockers

Demonstrated ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges

Cost analysis and management

Decision making/strategic thinking/negotiation skills

Program management skills

Leadership skills

Talent management

General management

Problem solving skills

Influencing others/working across boundaries

Internal and External stakeholder management

As part of our team, you will work as the SRE Platform Engineering Lead performing the following functions:

Manage the Nokia IT SRE Platform Engineering Team

Manage a team located across multiple time zones

Focus on reducing lifecycle friction by defining SLO, SLI, SLA, & SRE with key stakeholders

Ensure Cloud services meet their availability target

Use software and automation rather than human toil to accomplish availability target and velocity

Act as a partner engineering team to the Managed Service operations team

Engineer processes and solutions that are automatable

Focus on toil reduction through automation

Work with team to build a self-service platform

Provide full transparency so that users can see their metrics on our service

Design efficient, secure, adaptable, scalable, and reliable cloud solutions (data, networking, application)

Drive all technical design and execution activities for moving existing on-premise infrastructure, server workloads, data and applications to the cloud IaaS and PaaS architectures.

Communicate with senior leaders regarding the architecture, discuss problems and recommend solutions and improvements.

Interact and work with application and business team members to provide the optimal environment for applications to deliver business functionality.

Introduce and develop Infrastructure automation in the environment including IAC, CI/CD pipelines, and automated configuration management.

Migration of workloads from on-premise/datacenter to Cloud

Migration of workloads from Cloud to Cloud

Drive self-service automation initiatives

Drive generative AI initiatives