Site Reliability Engineer Team Lead - Remote job DevOps / Sysadmin at Owkin

Aug 19, 2025 | 5 views

Full time DevOps / Sysadmin UK, Germany, France Kubernetes Terraform Ansible

Job Title : DevOps / Sysadmin

Job Type : Full time

Company : Owkin

Candidate Required Location : UK, Germany, France

About us

Owkin is an agentic AI company on a mission to explore complex biology to speed up and scale research for the creation of new treatments and diagnostics for patients. Owkin K, our AI co-pilot combines unparalleled access to multimodal data, cutting-edge AI to understand biology and pioneering agentic AI to achieve Biological Artificial Superintelligence in the future.

Owkin is comprised of a group of specialized companies that work seamlessly together, combining deep expertise with a shared mission to accelerate biological discovery. Owkin K is the technology foundation of our ecosystem, it provides cutting-edge co-pilots incorporating high-quality data infrastructure and AI tools to power breakthroughs for researchers, customers and our companies.

Owkin has raised over $300 million through investments from leading biopharma companies, including Sanofi and BMS, and venture funds like Fidelity, GV and Bpifrance, among others.Owkin is seeking the best and brightest to join our fast-growing and dynamic team.

Position is based in our Paris, Nantes or London offices or remotely in France, UK, Germany.

Please submit your CV in English

About the role:

In the Engineering team at Owkin, you will be at the heart of our mission to accelerate research at scale. You will contribute to building and maintaining a robust research platform that enables our data scientists and researchers to focus on what matters most - advancing scientific discoveries.

In particular, you will:

Coordinate the full lifecycle of system administration and site reliability engineering (SRE) at the team level.
Manage and contribute to a team of 6 engineers, including responsibilities for recruitment, onboarding, performance management, and career development.
Define, implement, and advocate for SRE best practices across both the team and the broader organization.
Provide technical mentorship and foster the professional growth of team members.
Serve as the primary point of contact for stakeholders, managing communication around priorities, timelines, and deliverables.
Ensure high-quality, timely delivery of projects and services that meet business and technical requirements.
Oversee operational support for production systems, including incident management and participation in on-call rotations (between once every 6 and 8 weeks).
Facilitate and contribute to architectural and technical decision-making in collaboration with cross-functional teams and external partners (AWS, contractors, SaaS providers).
Lead and support complex, multi-system deployments and manage autonomous technical initiatives.

About you

Required qualifications / experience:

7+ years of industry experience with a Masters or BS degree, in computer science, software engineering or an associated field with 2+ years in management roles
Excellent communication skills and ability to translate technical concepts to various stakeholders
Strong project management skills with ability to lead multiple concurrent initiatives
Fluency in English is a prerequisite; additional language skills in French would be preferred
Strong experience with a major cloud provider (some experience with AWS is a requirement)
Expertise in Terraform, Kubernetes and Ansible
Experience in deploying and maintaining on-premises environments
Good knowledge of Linux environment (system, security and network)
Experience with CI/CD tooling (FluxCD, ArgoCD, Github actions, …)
Experience with logging, monitoring and alerting stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, …)
Experience in cyber security and applicable standards (in particular ISO 27001)

Candidates not meeting every criteria, but who can demonstrate exceptional skill in key areas, are invited to apply.

Preferred qualifications/bonus:

Kubernetes and/or public cloud certification
Experience with maintaining high uptime services
Experience building software in a high level language, such as Python

And you:

...enjoy working in a small, passionate team where your contributions will have a direct impact.
… have a proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks
...value processes, standards, communication.
...want to help build never-before-seen technologies.
...know that you do not know everything; so you are able to ask questions and to work with a team spirit mindset.
…are able to say no, and explain why.

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What we offer

Flexible work organization
Friendly and informal working environment
Opportunity to work with an international team with high technical and scientific backgrounds

Recruitment Process & Security

Please complete the form and submit your CV.
Owkin is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, gender, sexual orientation, age, color, religion, national origin, protected veteran status or on the basis of disability.
Owkin is a great place to work. As a coveted workplace we are, unfortunately, vulnerable to recruitment phishing scams. We urge all job seekers and candidates to be wary of potential scams. Most of these have individuals posing as representatives of prominent companies, including Owkin, with the aim of obtaining personal, sensitive, or financial information from applicants. These scams prey upon an individual’s desire to obtain a job and can sometimes “feel” like a genuine recruitment process. Some red flags are identified below. Should you encounter a recruitment process that claims to be for Owkin but is not consistent with the below, please do not provide any personal or financial information:
Legitimate Owkin recruitment processes include communication with candidates through recognized professional networks, such as LinkedIn.
Communication is always through an official Owkin email address (from the @owkin.com domain), over the phone or through our applicant tracking system (Greenhouse).
The Owkin talent team do use platforms such as LinkedIn and Job Teaser, however if you have any concern or doubt about this contact, please ask for them to send an email from @Owkin.com.
The Owkin talent team will not solicit personal data from candidates during the application phase including, but not limited to, date of birth, social security numbers, or bank account information;
Legitimate Owkin interviews may be conducted over the phone, in person, or via an approved enterprise videoconferencing service (Google Meets). They will not occur via Signal, Telegram or Messenger
Owkin offers of employment are based on merit and only extended once a candidate has interviewed with members of the talent and hiring team. Offers will be extended both verbally and in written format.

If you think that you have been a victim of fraud,

Check the identity of the talent team on LinkedIn.
Check the existence of the position on our website https://owkin.com/hiring
Notify Owkin's recruitment unit at this address [email protected]
contact the following authorities:

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