▷ Team Lead Network Engineering (m/f/d) in Hamburg

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.

Aufgaben

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.

Profil

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.

Wir bieten

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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