Platform and Infrastructure Lead (wmd)

About The Company

GROPYUS is a technology-based construction company focused on building multi-story residential buildings. Thanks to its prefabricated building system with various design options industrial offsite construction and fully digitalized processes the company manufactures aspirational sustainable and affordable homes using timber construction methods. GROPYUS is using scalable construction and manufacturing solutions to tap into a future market boost Europes strength in innovation while also playing a substantial role in improving sustainability.

About the Role:

You will build and lead the new Tech Infrastructure team at GROPYUS the foundation that enables all our technical teams to deliver from cloud environments to production facilities to construction sites.

As Platform & Infrastructure Lead youll shape a team of up to four engineers and take ownership of how we run infrastructure across the company. Youll be hands-on where it matters making architecture decisions solving complex problems and setting technical direction while growing a high-performing team that delivers reliable services with clear SLOs.

This is a role for someone who enjoys bridging worlds: cloud platforms and physical hardware strategic planning and practical implementation technical excellence and people development. Youll have the autonomy to hire your own team define standards and build the infrastructure practices that GROPYUS relies on.

What youll be doing:

As Platform & Infrastructure Lead you will be responsible for:

• Leading and growing a team of senior and staff engineers including hiring mentoring and supporting their professional development

• Owning the technical direction for our infrastructure services: managed Kubernetes Linux and Windows servers PostgreSQL monitoring networking and physical infrastructure across multiple sites

• Delivering Infrastructure as a Service to all GROPYUS teams with defined SLOs and reliable support

• Driving standardisation and automation building reusable infrastructure patterns and reducing manual operations through Infrastructure as Code and automated workflows

• Collaborating with other technology teams lead engineering peers and the staff engineer community to align on needs and ensure our services enable their success

• Balancing hands-on technical contribution with leadership responsibilities youll stay close to the technology while empowering your team

What you bring:

• Youre an experienced infrastructure engineer who has moved into technical leadership with a strong background across cloud platforms networking and server management

• Youve led or mentored engineers and understand what it takes to build a collaborative high-performing team

• You have practical experience with hybrid infrastructure youre equally comfortable discussing Kubernetes deployments and planning physical rack installations

• Youve worked with monitoring and observability tools and have experience defining and operating against SLOs

• You bring a service-oriented mindset: you think about reliability documentation and making infrastructure easy for others to use

• You have experience with physical infrastructure youre comfortable planning and organising IT hardware deployments across multiple sites including racks cabling and network equipment

• Youre driven to automate: manual operations feel like a problem to solve not a default way of working

• Youre familiar with most of the following areas:

• • Cloud platforms

• • Kubernetes administration and operations

• • Linux and Windows server management

• • Network infrastructure (firewalls VPN switches Wifi)

• • Monitoring stacks (Prometheus Grafana or similar)

• • Infrastructure as Code and configuration management

• Youre based in Germany and open to occasional travel to our sites to support physical infrastructure work

What We Offer

• Be part of something big:Youre here to make a change Come on board. At GROPYUS we are on a mission to re-think an entire industry. Join us in reinventing construction and sustainable affordable living.
• Its on you:We offer a tremendous amount of ownership and room to make a mark - at all our organization levels. Find your solutions drive and test them.
• Focus on results:You choose if you work from home a park or the office. Whether you start your day early after your run or pick up on work when your kids are in bed. What counts is your contribution and delivery.
• Bring your uniqueness to the team:Innovation requires diversity of thought. Diversity in background experience and thinking is crucial to create the best product for everyone. We actively seek diversity and strive to unlock each others full potential. We are very proud that people from all industries and all walks of life are joining our company in addition to core areas such as construction engineering and start-ups from stock-listed companies from across automotive e-Commerce digital sporting goods and more. You will work in international teams with passionate colleagues. Inspire and be inspired.
• Be an owner:Participate in the success of GROPYUS through stock options.

Join us on our mission to design buildings as continuously evolving products to create the most exciting and affordable experience for all. We build for people and conserve the resources of our planet.

We cant wait to get to know you.
For more information visit ourwebsite and if you have any questions please reach out to us viaemail.