Engineering Manager Cloud Excellence (d/f/m)

mobile.de is Germany’s largest vehicle marketplace, with more than 1.6 million listed cars, commercial vehicles, motorcycles, and e-bikes (annual average 2025). Both private customers and registered vehicle dealers use the platform and benefit from more than 140 million visits per month*. As a “one-stop shop,” mobile.de’s offering includes not only buying and selling, but also financing and leasing solutions. Founded in 1996, the company is a subsidiary of Adevinta, a global leader in online classified portals.
Based in Berlin-Charlottenburg, we offer a dynamic environment where growth, learning, and collaboration are at the heart of everything we do. If you are driven by an eagerness to disrupt, have a passion for collaboration, and are excited about shaping the future of mobility, we would love to hear from you.
The mobile.de Cloud and Infrastructure organisation provides the tools, services and support that help our business make effective use of public cloud.
We are building a four-engineer team focused on Cloud Excellence and are looking for an experienced leader with a software engineering background and a hands-on approach. The team develops self-service capabilities for FinOps and cloud governance, including identity and access management (IAM) and technical controls. It also helps Cloud Operations to use cloud resources efficiently and supports initiatives such as NIS2-aligned solution design.
Across the organisation, we build internal products with Backstage, Kubernetes and services from AWS and GCP; manage infrastructure as code for containerised workloads; integrate third-party services; and provide observability and shared cloud resources for mobile.de products. We are first responders in an on call rotation and monitor our platform 24/7 to identify and address incidents promptly.
The team meets in the Berlin office multiple times per week to collaborate, meet and have lunch together.
What you'll do

• Lead and develop a team of four engineers, combining people leadership with a hands-on engineering mindset.
• Strengthen our cloud capabilities in FinOps, governance, business continuity, IAM and compliance.
• Share operational ownership and continuously improve our solutions through automation, simplicity, reliability and observability.
• Participate in on call rotation and roster management
• Build and promote automated workflows across our GitHub ecosystem.
• Help teams choose cloud and SaaS solutions that deliver the right value, and replace outdated solutions when appropriate.
• Share your expertise and mentor team members and software engineers in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles.
• Contribute to the success of Germany’s largest automotive marketplace through your knowledge and experience.

Who you are

• You demonstrated the ability to inspire commitment and foster high performance through authentic and inclusive leadership, especially in situations where influence matters more than formal authority.
• You are able to provide direction, make pragmatic decisions and maintain focus in complex, ambiguous and rapidly changing environments.
• You possess excellent oral and written communication skills in English, combined with strong negotiation, influencing, stakeholder management and conflict resolution skills.
• You have a software engineering background, or equivalent relevant experience, and enjoy staying hands-on.
• You are proficient in public cloud technologies and concepts, particularly AWS and GCP.
• You understand IT architecture and can guide teams towards robust, well-structured solutions.
• You take ownership of outcomes and are comfortable applying agile project-management approaches.
• You enjoy advising others and helping them solve problems.
• You communicate fluently in English.
• You’re skilled at applying AI tools in practical ways to improve how you work, from exploring ideas to producing high-quality results.
• Experience with ITIL, TOGAF or contract management is a plus.

Benefits
Working at mobile.de comes with its perks! Enjoy the following benefits (some of many):

• Rewards: competitive base salary and participation in the company’s incentive programs.
• Plan for the Future: On top of the statutory retirement insurance, we offer a competitive company pension scheme.
• Team-Building: Regular team and company events offer the opportunity to network and learn from each other.
• Learning & Development: Keep growing with access to coaching, learning platforms and resources.
• Mobility: Stay mobile with a monthly transportation allowance.
• Enjoy working: Our well-equipped office supports focused work and teamwork – plus inviting social zones where colleagues can relax and connect.
• Flexible working: a hybrid approach with the option to work abroad for a set number of days per year.
• Wellbeing: confidential employee assistance and support services available to employees and their immediate families.
• Family support: enhanced parental leave and family-friendly policies to support all parents and careers.

Meaningful Work: We are a diverse, international, highly skilled and passionate team committed to a world where people share more and waste less. Every day you will have the opportunity to make a huge difference for our users, customers as well as shape the future.
Embracing AI: We’re at the forefront of integrating cutting-edge AI technologies into our operations. Being part of mobile.de you will work with and learn about AI tools, contributing to projects that leverage AI to enhance efficiency, improve customer experiences, and drive our mission forward. With an AI-first mindset, we foster a culture of continuous learning and experimentation, empowering our team  to explore and apply AI in meaningful ways for the company and themselves.
Connection and Inclusion: Our culture is the glue that holds us together. We believe in making meaningful connections and creating an inclusive atmosphere with lots of opportunities to connect both in your day to day work and through social team activities (online and offline).
mobile.de is an equal opportunity employer and we value diversity. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status or disability status. 
(*Source: mobile.de Google Analytics Tracking, average per month January to December 2025)