About the Role
Do you want to grow one of the best engineering communities and deliver reliable platforms at scale? We’re looking for a Chapter Lead to coach our DevOps & SRE engineers, define standards and toolchains, and partner with squads to raise automation, performance, and reliability across cloud-native environments.
As Chapter Lead, you’ll drive both our engineering practices and people development within the Automation & Orchestration platform. You’ll lead a motivated, high-performing international team while shaping strategy and practices that support Deutsche Telekom’s transformation. The role includes occasional international travel (~20%).
Key Responsibilities
Leadership & People
- Mentor and coach chapter members in both technical and professional growth.
- Define career paths, set objectives, and provide regular feedback.
- Foster a collaborative, inclusive, and motivated team culture.
Strategy & Development
- Define and own the DevOps/SRE vision aligned with platform strategy.
- Drive adoption of best practices (AI, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, automation, testing).
- Continuously develop technical expertise and awareness of new technologies.
Collaboration & Global Impact
- Partner with regional teams, deliver training, and represent the chapter at global events.
- Act as a trusted advisor across international engineering communities.
Required Skills & Experience
- Hands-on expertise in DevOps & SRE (AWS/GCP/Azure, Kubernetes, Terraform, Prometheus, ELK/EFK).
- Strong grasp of system design, networking, and security principles.
- Proven track record in automation, distributed systems, and incident response.
- Experience building and leading high-performing engineering teams.
- Excellent communication skills, able to engage both technical and business stakeholders.
- Strategic mindset with ability to balance vision with operational demands.
- International perspective, adaptability, and fluency in English (other languages a plus).
What We Value
- Integrity & Empathy: You lead with humility, celebrate success, and support your people.
- Growth Mindset: You continuously learn, teach, and improve reliability practices.
- Collaboration: You overcome silos, build trust, and communicate transparently.
We offer our people the best
- Smartphone: Choose your phone and get a compensation of up to 900 € every 3 years.
- Employee tariff: Use unlimited data, call and text for lower prices for private and business purposes.
- Yearly bonus: You can get a bonus of up to 15% of your annual fixed salary each year depending on the company’s success.
- Telekom discounts: Enjoy the most of the lower prices of our products and services for your family and friends.
- Partner discounts: Enjoy lower prices of products and services with our partners.
- Shares program Shares2You: Become a shareholder of the Deutsche Telekom Group and take advantage of the associated benefits.
- Rest and recreation: Relax with 5 extra days off.
- MultiSport: Sport and relax with your loved ones thanks to the discounted MultiSport card.
- Sick pay: If you are on sick leave for max. 10 days, you can count on an income of 80% of the daily assessment basis.
- uLekára.sk: Take care of your health with free online prevention and consultation with medical specialists for you and your family.
- Healthcare: Take care of your wellbeing with high-quality care for a discounted price with our contractual facility.
- Education and development: Broaden your horizons with our internal T-Univerzita offering a wide range of courses.
- Cafeteria: Choose from a wide range of benefits worth up to 500 € per year - sports and cultural services, health and beauty, holidays or language courses.
- Life crisis support: Is life testing you? We will support you with one-off financial support.
- Psychological consultations: Are you having troubles in your private or professional life? Share your burden anonymously via phone or online.
- Meal contribution: Enjoy a delicious meal with a work-day allowance of 6,60 €.
- Recreational allowance: Have you been with us for 2 years? A recreational allowance is in your pocket.
- Pension allowance: Get ready for your retirement with a pension allowance after 3 months with us.
Everyone is welcome to join us
Our employees feel that they have equal employment and career development opportunities with us, regardless of age, gender and gender identity, sexual orientation, physical and mental ability, nationality, social and ethnic origin, political views, religion and world view. This makes us very happy. We are committed to continuous improvement and to creating a safe working environment for all.
What awaits you
- Has the job offer captured your interest? Fill in the application form and let us know about yourself.
- We will assess the information you send us and will get back to you under any circumstances.
- We will contact the chosen applicants and specify the details.
- A job interview is a two-way opportunity to get to know each other better.
- We will inform you about the result of the interview as soon as possible. Successful candidates will receive a job offer.
- In our company, according to our job architecture, you will perform the position of „DevOps Engineer - Expert“.
