Infrastructure & SRE Manager

Permanent employee, Full-time · Maria01 (Helsinki)

Imagine a future where everyone has instant, low-cost access to intelligence. We’re building a fully featured European AI cloud - with everything one needs to train, experiment with, and deploy AI models. In addition, our GPUs run on 100% renewable energy.

We’re ambitious, curious, and gutsy doers. We practice a low hierarchy across the company and high morale in our teams. We’ve already achieved a lot, yet we’re only getting started. Now it’s your chance to join the ride. We offer more than just the job - we offer a career-defining opportunity to be part of building something big!

As a cherry on top, we’ve recently raised $64M in Series A and are ready to reach new heights.
About the role

We’re looking for an Infrastructure & SRE Manager to lead the reliability, scalability, and day-to-day resilience of Verda's global cloud platform.

In this role, you’ll sit at the intersection of engineering, operations, and the business - connecting teams across automation, networking, Linux, hardware, and data-centre operations to ensure our infrastructure is world-class.

You’ll own the infrastructure reliability roadmap, shaping how we minimise downtime, speed up deployments, and turn business priorities into technical execution. This is a high-impact leadership position where your decisions directly influence platform performance, customer experience, and our ability to scale at pace.

Why Verda
  • Generous cash + equity compensation, along with various fringe benefits (healthcare, lunch, wellbeing, etc.)
  • Flexible working hours and hybrid way of working
  • Profitable operations alongside fast growth
  • A role offering the opportunity to make a business-critical impact and grow within the team
  • A small yet mighty team of 61, challenging the status quo to positively impact the lives of many
  • 27 nationalities in total, with 6 represented in the management team
  • A community-like atmosphere - we often enjoy each other’s company after work (e.g., BBQs by Ruben, our CEO by day and master chef by night)
Practicalities

Location: Helsinki, Finland

Start Date: As soon as possible

Contract Type: Full-time

Working Language: English

Your responsibilities
  • Lead and refine the end-to-end deployment lifecycle, ensuring smooth, predictable releases across all environments
  • Establish and uphold deployment standards, release criteria, and readiness checks that raise the bar for quality
  • Partner closely with automation, networking, Linux, hardware, and DC ops teams to deliver meaningful infrastructure improvements
  • Eliminate friction in the delivery pipeline through process optimisation and targeted automation
  • Measure and improve key engineering metrics - especially lead time for changes and release reliability
  • Own the availability and reliability roadmap, defining and maintaining SLIs/SLOs that guide engineering priorities
  • Oversee and evolve incident response, ensuring structured follow-ups and long-term fixes
  • Maintain an infrastructure risk register, surfacing and mitigating reliability risks before they impact customers
  • Drive platform resilience through better failover strategies, redundancy, capacity planning, and forward-looking architecture decisions
Your key competencies
  • Deep understanding of infrastructure, cloud platforms, and distributed systems
  • Demonstrated experience managing technical products or large-scale platforms in reliability-driven environments
  • Ability to translate business needs into clear infrastructure priorities and execution plans
  • Excellent communicator - able to simplify complex topics for both technical and non-technical audiences
  • Strong, data-led approach to measuring, tracking, and improving system performance
  • Highly organised, proactive, and comfortable owning outcomes end-to-end
  • Collaborative and adaptable - thrives in fast-moving, cross-functional teams
  • Naturally curious about new technology and motivated by building scalable, future-proof systems

Required Experience

  • Background in infrastructure, SRE, DevOps, observability, or related engineering domains
  • Strong technical foundation in Linux, networking, data-centre operations, distributed systems, and core cloud concepts (containers, orchestration, etc.)
  • Hands-on experience with observability tooling - using metrics, logs, and traces to drive diagnostics, insights, and performance improvements
  • Strong project and program management capabilities - able to prioritise effectively, coordinate across teams, and influence outcomes without formal authority

Preferred Experience

  • Experience working in high-availability production environments or platform reliability teams
  • Understanding of infrastructure hardware lifecycles - including networking, compute, storage, and data-centre capacity planning
  • Strong bias toward automation, reliability, and continuous improvement
  • Comfortable operating in mission-critical, always-on environments
Success criteria for this role in the next 6-12 months
  • Reduced downtime of servers
  • Improved time-to-production for new systems
  • Clear alignment between business needs and infrastructure priorities
  • Established collaboration frameworks with cross technical teams
  • Demonstrated measurable growth in infrastructure performance, reliability, and customer acquisition impact through improved uptime
How the process looks like
  1. Intro Chat (45 mins): Meet with the Talent Partner to learn more about Verda and share your career aspirations.
  2. Technical Interview (60 mins): Meet with our CTO and EVP for a deep dive and culture fit conversation.
  3. Final Interview (60 mins): Discussion with the SRE and infrastructure teams to explore your experience and approach.
  4. Optional Office Visit: Meet the wider team at our Maria 01 office.
What's next
Apply sooner than later. This job ad will be removed once we’ve found the right person.

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