Adidas DIRECTOR SOFTWARE ENGINEERING SRE 

China, Shanghai, Yangpu District 

997530063

We believe that through Sport, we have the power to change lives.To change lives, we have to create direct relationships with consumers and the best way to accelerate building directrelationships is through Digital.

Responsibilities:

• Lead an engineering team: Working to setup the SRE practice and the corresponding change management involved. Grow and inspiring, inclusive, and collaborative environment, working with Product Owners, Engineering Managers and other Tech. Leads to plan out new initiatives, managing both technical and non-technical risks. You will champion knowledgesharing, cultivate learning and avoid knowledge silos in the team. Implementing and driving the Site ReliabilityEngineering within adidas. Be involved in recruitment to help make our Site Reliability Engineering team stronger. Leadinitiatives to improve our company-wide engineering culture. Discover ways to multiply the effectiveness of the team andthe organization.
• Cultivate system architecture for a set of product services/applications: Establish a shared team Technical Vision which isaligned with the product roadmap that results in achieving the outcome for entire digital organization. Shepherd the team towards the Technical Vision in small increments improve our modern infrastructure and deployment platform that currently enables over 100deploys a week. Communicate technical topics or constraints to non-technical stakeholders in easily- understandable ways. Grow architectural understanding and champion system stability and reliability within the team.
• Develop and Mentor our engineers: Demonstrate healthy modern engineering practices through writing clean and well-tested code with the team. Guide the team to continually improve the infrastructure and tools for our development process to speed up feedback and improve quality. Grow our passionate engineers through coaching and mentoring and finding new opportunities to learn through the continuous delivery of value. Demonstrate behaviors that encourage the DevSecOps culture and the pragmatic engineering attitude at adidas.

What we are looking for:

• Strong awareness and experience of working with Site Reliability Engineering principles.
• At least 10-year experience in IT experience with 7 years in relevant area (DevOps / SRE).
• Previous experience leading an engineering team as a servant-leader.
• College or university degree with focus on IT or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills. Proficient spoken and written command of English.

c technical skills:

• Demonstrated understanding of Microservices architecture and best practices.
• Good understanding of public cloud offerings such as AWS components like EC2, IAM, RDS, Cloudwatch etc.
• Knowledge of server-side technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, NodeJS, Java.
• Hands on experience on enterprise tools set such as Grafana, Instana, Prometheus, ELK Stack etc.
• Understanding of Linux and Networking systems.
• Has experience in any scripting language (bash / python / perl).
• Good experience with CI/CD pipelines including BitBucket, Jenkins.• Experience operating high-availability, fault-tolerant, scalable, distributed software in production: building monitoring into your code, tweaking dashboards, defining alerts.
• Knowledge of Agile software development principles including using JIRA.
• Experience in 24/7 high availability production environment.
• Experience with building Rest APIs, API Integration, and Web Services is preferred.
• Exposure to agile processes.
• International Experience - ideally working abroad and mobile in leadership roles.
• Ability to cope with change, make decisions and act comfortably when confronted with risk and uncertainty.

Technologies we use:

• Microservices architecture.
• AWS
• Messaging and Streaming frameworks (RabbitMQ / Kafka)
• Docker & Kubernetes
• Monitoring and alerting: Grafana, Instana, Prometheus, ELK etc.
• Scripting language (bash / python / perl).
• CI/CD: Jenkins, BitBucket, Jenkins
• Linux.

What we offer:

• You will be part of a company where digital transformation, innovation and continuous improvement are core principles of our culture.
• You will join a team of talented and passionate engineers, with a lot of opportunities to grow and reach your expectations.
• You will be part of the growing adidas Tech Community, leading, driving and coordinating the IT strategy for a core strategic area of our business.
• You will be part of a highly engaged, multinational with international career opportunities.
• Individual development, training and a tech community.
• Sport friendly environment, great work-life balance and flexibility
• Competitive salary, benefits and valuable discounts on adidas products.