Site Reliability Engineering Lead (SRE Lead)

Job Description

F-Secure makes every digital moment more secure, for everyone. For over 35 years, we’ve led the cyber security industry, protecting tens of millions of people online together with our 200+ service provider partners. We value our Fellows' individuality, with an inclusive environment where diversity drives innovation and growth. What makes you unique is what we value – be yourself, that is (y)our greatest asset. Founded in Finland, F‑Secure has offices in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific.

As we grow and evolve, we're on the lookout for a Site Reliability Engineering Lead (SRE Lead) to join our team. If you're passionate about ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of cloud services, we’d love to have you on board!

We are a global team of professionals at F-Secure, specializing in cybersecurity and technology. Our mission is to provide top-notch security solutions, ensuring our customers receive reliable and high-quality cloud services. With a presence across multiple continents and a commitment to research and development, we are redefining cybersecurity while staying ahead of digital threats. Platforms play a crucial role in our strategy, empowering teams to build efficiently, innovate faster, and deliver exceptional value to millions of users.

Your role in our journey:

As a Site Reliability Engineering Lead, you'll be a key player in shaping the F-Secure SRE view and activities. Reporting to the Platform Engineering Core Lead within the Architecture & Platforms organization, you'll focus on three pillars: Strategy, Execution, and Collaboration.

Our hiring process consists of two interview rounds. First, you'll have an introduction interview, followed by a technical pre-task. In the final stage, you'll meet with the team to review your pre-task submission and dive deeper into technical discussions, as well as team and culture fit.

Here's a glimpse of the key responsibilities in this role:

• Strategic development: Drive the vision and strategy for F-Secure’s SRE practices, ensuring alignment with business goals and a proactive approach to reliability and scalability.
• Execution leadership: Lead the SRE operations, including incident response, reliability testing, and the implementation of observability tools and processes.
• Process ownership: Manage and continuously improve SRE processes such as service level objectives (SLOs), error budgets, and incident management frameworks.
• Cross-functional collaboration: Partner with development, cloud, and security teams to enhance system reliability, optimize infrastructure, and maintain compliance standards.
• Continuous improvement: Identify and address key challenges related to service availability, scalability, and operational efficiency while fostering a culture of learning and innovation.

What are we looking for?

• Proven experience in AWS cloud services, monitoring and logging solutions, and site reliability engineering principles.
• A track record of SRE or DevOps lead role and implementing reliability testing, alerting, and incident management processes.
• Strong leadership and communication skills (in English), with the ability to drive cross-organizational initiatives and foster collaboration.
• Relevant certifications such as AWS associate and professional-level certificates.
• A proactive and problem-solving mindset, with the ability to guide and mentor other DevOps and Site Reliability Engineers.
• We’re seeking a collaborative leader who understands the big picture and is eager to solve company-level challenges to deliver better services and products to our customers.
• We offer a hybrid working model, with flexibility to work remotely. However, we prefer that the chosen candidate is willing to visit our Helsinki office 1-2 days a week to foster collaboration and team engagement.

What will you get from us?

In this role, you'll have the opportunity to shape and drive the SRE strategy for F-Secure, playing a key role in ensuring the reliability, scalability, and performance of our cloud services. You'll work as part of a bigger talented team, collaborate with cross-functional partners, and work with cutting-edge observability tools and processes to continuously enhance our systems. This role offers a chance to make a significant impact on how we approach reliability, incident management, and automation, while also fostering a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.

• You will work together with experienced and enthusiastic colleagues, and within F-Secure you will find some of the best minds in the cyber security industry.
• We actively encourage our Fellows to grow and develop within F-Secure, and in your career here you can find yourself contributing to any number of our other products and teams. You decide what to make of this role, what your priorities are, and how you organize your work for the best benefit to us all.
• We offer interesting challenges and a competitive compensation model with wide range of benefits. You get a chance to develop yourself professionally in an international and highly motivated team serving our customers in providing world class security, privacy and uncensored access to information online.
• You get to work in a flexible, agile, and dynamic working environment that supports individual needs. Giving our people both support and the opportunity to be in charge of their own work is something that is in our DNA.
• We are in a unique phase in our 30-year history and with curiosity and excitement in the air we see no limits for building a strong and fruitful career with us!

Our benefits include extensive health care, remote working, company supported sport activities, lunch vouchers, regular massages and sauna at the premises and many more things to keep our best asset – people - happy!

A security vetting will possibly be conducted for the selected candidate in accordance to our employment process.