Tech Stack
AWSAzureCloudGoogle Cloud PlatformOpen Source
About the role
- Serve as the full-lifecycle owner for Open VSX and Eclipse Foundation-hosted services; accountable for availability, incident response, service scaling, and roadmap execution
- Coordinate across IT/ Infrastructure, Security, Community Programs, and other teams to ensure unified delivery
- Own delivery priorities, operational stability, and risk mitigation for assigned services
- Maintain visible, responsive service health, roadmap, and performance updates for internal and external stakeholders
- Lead daily operations, monitoring, alerting, incident response, change planning, and postmortems
- Identify operational risks and technical debt; implement forward-looking improvements
- Collaborate with internal teams and external vendors/contractors to ensure reliability and support coverage
- Implement tools and processes that support observability, automation, and operational maturity
- Build security into service architecture and operations; promote secure-by-design practices
- Drive delivery of architectural and operational improvements enabling 24/7 uptime, HA, redundancy, and strong security
- Track and report on KPIs, SLAs, and operational health indicators
- Provide strategic input on platform operations and technology decisions; inform annual planning and budgeting
- Contribute to annual planning cycles by informing resource needs, tooling requirements, and infrastructure budgeting
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform operations, or service delivery roles (Platform Manager, Site Reliability Engineer, or Technical Program Owner)
- Strong background in cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or Azure), CI/CD systems, observability tools, and incident response practices
- Practical, hands-on approach with excellent organisational and problem-solving skills
- Strong communication skills with comfort working in remote-first and distributed environments
- Experience managing contractors or vendor partners for delivery or support work
- Open source experience is a nice-to-have