Director, Sre Application, Emea Regional Lead

Guidewire InsuranceSuite

Not specified; not specified; competitive compensa...
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Site reliability engineering leadership
Aws and kubernetes ecosystem expertise
Major incident management experience
Guidewire is seeking a Director of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to lead a regional SRE organization, focusing on reliability, scalability, and performance across their cloud platform. The ideal candidate will possess extensive leadership experience in SRE, a deep understanding of SRE principles, and a proven track record in managing and scaling high-performing teams. ###

Job Summary

  • This role involves leading a regional Site Reliability Engineering organization to ensure the operational excellence of the Guidewire Cloud Platform.
  • The successful candidate will champion SRE best practices including observability, proactive incident management, and blameless postmortems across distributed teams.
  • Candidates must possess deep technical expertise in cloud infrastructure while demonstrating exceptional people management skills to build high-performing engineering teams.

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Guidewire is seeking a Director of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) to lead a regional SRE organization, focusing on reliability, scalability, and performance across their cloud platform. The ideal candidate will possess extensive leadership experience in SRE, a deep understanding of SRE principles, and a proven track record in managing and scaling high-performing teams. ###

Salary

Not specified; Not specified; Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits offered

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • Site Reliability Engineering leadership
  • AWS and Kubernetes ecosystem expertise
  • Major incident management experience
  • Infrastructure as Code with Terraform
  • Go Python or Java software engineering
  • Microservices architecture knowledge
  • Datadog observability tools proficiency

Nice-to-have

  • Guidewire InsuranceSuite product familiarity
  • Gosu programming language knowledge
  • Kubevela application experience
  • Agentic AI and LLM integration interest
  • Enterprise business tool usage
  • Cloud networking and security depth
  • External conference presentation experience

Key Requirements

  • Minimum 15 years of related experience
  • Proven track record managing managers
  • Bachelor's degree required or equivalent experience
  • Experience scaling large engineering organizations
  • Strategic roadmap definition capabilities

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