Team Lead Network Engineering (m/f/d)

• Flexible working hours with flextime and the option to take time off in lieu give you real flexibility in your day-to-day work.
• In addition to your salary, you'll receive holiday and Christmas bonuses as well as a €1,000 vacation allowance.
• Through our corporate benefits program, you can enjoy attractive discounts — including 15% employee discount at Otto.
• Thanks to our hybrid working model, you can flexibly combine office and remote work.
• With our workation option, you can work up to 30 days per year from anywhere within Europe.
• We support your commute with a subsidy for the Deutschlandticket.

• As the leader of an international team of six Network Engineers, you set the technical direction, priorities, and quality standards while staying close to the technology yourself.
• Ownership covers the design, evolution, and operation of our multi-region AWS network infrastructure, as well as the technical roadmap that keeps it secure, scalable, and cost-efficient.
• Through regular 1:1s, coaching, and clear growth paths, you develop your engineers and take responsibility for hiring, onboarding, and performance across the team.
• Standardized processes for deploying, operating, and troubleshooting the cloud network are established and enforced, covering IaC, change management, and incident response.
• As the team's representative toward Infrastructure, Security, and business stakeholders, you translate strategic goals into an executable technical plan.

• At least 8 years of professional experience as a Cloud, Infrastructure, or Network Engineer in enterprise environments, including several years in a senior or lead capacity.
• Proven people leadership experience, ideally gained while leading a distributed, international engineering team of five or more, combined with confidence in owning hiring, development, and performance conversations.
• A hands-on mindset, with deep AWS networking expertise and a solid grasp of enterprise networking protocols such as BGP, IPSec, SD-WAN, and L2/L3.
• Infrastructure management through IaC, for example Terraform, as well as a strong preference for automation over manual work and high standards for engineering practices within the team.
• Experience with enterprise firewalls, such as Fortinet, and cloud security best practices, including VPN and access controls, rounds out your profile.
• Confident communication in English across time zones and cultures, along with a genuine interest in building a high-trust, high-ownership team culture.

• Flexible Working Hours - with flexitime and compensatory time off
• Holiday and Christmas Bonus - special Christmas payment and €1000 holiday bonus
• Corporate Benefits and Employee Discount - 15% discount at Otto and additional perks through the benefits portal
• Hybrid Work - work partially remotely
• Workation - work up to 30 days in European countries
• Subsidy for the \"Deutschlandticket\" - discounted mobility for you

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