81K–108K EUR / year
Staff Operations Engineer
OperationsRemote — Germany
Published on 2026-10-06
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About this role
Lead the architecture, reliability, and evolution of Mozilla’s hybrid-cloud and workplace infrastructure. This hands-on staff-level role combines technical direction with delivery of complex projects across teams, including infrastructure improvements, automation, and incident response.
About the company
Mozilla builds open-source products and technologies, including Firefox, that prioritize privacy, security, and an open internet.
Stack
VMwareCisco UCSApplication and network load balancersLinux/UnixDNSTCP/IPRoutingFirewalls
What you'll do
- Own and evolve architecture within an infrastructure domain, setting standards and contributing to technical strategy.
- Lead ambiguous, high-impact infrastructure projects, migrations, and reliability or performance improvements.
- Collaborate across IT, SRE, Security, and service-owner teams to integrate office, data-center, and cloud infrastructure.
- Improve reliability through monitoring, alerting, SLIs/SLOs, capacity planning, and incident root-cause analysis.
- Reduce operational toil with automation and Infrastructure as Code.
- Mentor engineers, guide technical decisions, and maintain documentation, diagrams, and runbooks.
What we're looking for
- 6+ years of experience in systems engineering or infrastructure roles.
- Experience designing and operating production infrastructure.
- Strong expertise in VMware, Cisco UCS, and application or network load balancers.
- Knowledge of Linux/Unix, networking fundamentals, and data-center environments.
- Demonstrated ability to lead complex technical work across teams.
- Deep expertise in at least one infrastructure area and ability to contribute hands-on.
Nice to have
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code, such as Puppet or Ansible, and Python.
- Familiarity with observability tooling and reliability practices.
- Experience with containerization and modern platform tooling.
- Exposure to infrastructure security best practices.
- GitHub Enterprise administration, including access management, organization and repository management, SSO/SCIM, or policy enforcement.
Benefits
- Performance-based bonus plans.
- Retirement contributions with immediate 100% vesting, regardless of employee contributions.
- Quarterly company wellness days and a birthday day off.
- One-time home-office stipend and annual professional-development budget.
- Quarterly well-being stipend.
- Paid parental leave.