SRE Engineer

About Volkswagen Digital Solutions

Founded in 2019, Volkswagen Digital Solutions (VWDS) plays a major role in the Volkswagen Group strategy of going digital, by developing software mainly for the digital ecosystems and internal corporate processes.

Split across 3 tech units: CODE (Core Operations + Development), MAN Digital Hub and SDC (Software Development Center), VWDS plays a key part of the digitalization strategy that is happening in the Group.

Our Mindset | Open for new ways, transparent in what we do and responsive to requests!

Our Target | Creating value, being customer focused and delivering continuously!

Unsure if you meet all our requirements? Please apply anyway! We would love to hear from you!

The Position

What you will be doing:

• Help in building and running scalable, reliable, durable and secure Digital Products for MAN Truck & Bus clients and employees, using a customer-first approach while innovating technically;
• Provide technical knowledge for the product teams and work closely with them to increase the technical maturity of the product;
• Provide guidance to the product teams on managing availability and performance of mission critical services, on building automation to prevent problem recurrence and building automated responses for non-exceptional service conditions;
• Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health;
• Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity;
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.

Requirements

• Academic background in Computer Science or other similar areas;
• At least 5 years of experience working as a SRE Engineer or other similar role;
• Experience working with AWS products, Infrastructure as Code tools and monitoring tools such as Datadog;
• Strong communication skills in both tech and business contexts;
• Very good English skills, both written and spoken.

Our Hiring Process

Our Recruitment Process may slightly differ according to each role.

1. CV Screening - Our HR team reviews all the applications. Within a few days will give you feedback.
2. Cultural Interview - If your CV matches our requirements, the HR team will invite you for an interview. This is the moment to get to know you better and give you the freedom to ask everything you’d like to know about the company and our projects. After this, you’ll be invited to make a technical test in our platform.
3. Technical Interview - After collecting the feedback from the cultural interview and the results from the test, you’ll be invited to access your technical knowledge together with one of our engineers. Also, you can find more about our projects and way of working.
4. Job offer - All ok from your side and ours :) It’s time for a job offer.

Benefits

This is a true opportunity to join an amazing atmosphere on our local company culture build up, with the support of a solid international group, and to be part of an Agile environment where you can learn, share, and interact in a place where your ideas are valued and you have a voice.

• Flexible working hours;
• Remote friendly model adapted to each team’s needs and preferences;
• Continuous learning with access to Udemy;
• Wellbeing program extendable to your household;
• Health insurance extendable to your household;
• Life insurance;
• Opportunity to join the company’s pension fund;
• Home Office Setup to build your dream home office;
• Home allowance, to receive in your payslip or use in our flexible benefits platform (e.g. gym partnership, internet/data expenses, tech equipment);
• Smartphone + Telecom with voice & data plan;
• Discounts on VW Group cars and special conditions on financing;
• Relocation package (if applicable) & Visa process sponsorship;
• Portuguese/English language classes.