DevOps Tech Lead

<p>The project is moving everything towards GCP and Kubernetes. We’re growing towards a scale that no longer matches our legacy architecture and actively investing in modernization. We’re migrating on-premise workloads to GKE, strengthening security and business continuity best practices, and moving toward platform self-service for our development teams. A core goal is to consolidate and shrink the stack and every migration decision is measured against whether it lowers the daily burden on the team.<br><br><strong>Requirements:<br></strong></p> <ul> <li>Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.</li> <li>2+ years of experience being a mentor/leader, of which:</li> <ul> <li>1+ years leading a team, formally or as a tech lead</li> </ul> <li>7+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering, of which:&nbsp;</li> <ul> <li>3+ years running production workloads on Kubernetes (GKE preferred)</li> <li>3+ years of experience with a major cloud provider and Infrastructure as Code. GCP is our primary cloud and we expect senior-level knowledge of IAM, networking, KMS, GKE, CloudSQL and Secret Manager</li> <li>3+ years of experience operating at a Senior, Staff, or Principal Engineer level.</li> </ul> <li>Experience with CI/CD pipeline design and operations</li> <li>Experience with GitOps (FluxCD or ArgoCD)</li> <li>Experience working directly with engineering teams and other managers as your customers on scoping and prioritization</li> <li>Experience leading incident response, including running postmortems</li> </ul> <p><strong>Responsibilities</strong></p> <ul> <li>Work with your team to design, build, and operate the infrastructure the rest of engineering depends on: clusters, pipelines, databases, edge, and observability</li> <li>Your customers are the other engineering teams. Work with the other Engineering Managers and product development leadership to scope and prioritize platform work</li> <li>Set the quality bar for your team. Lead by example.</li> <li>Manage, lead, and mentor your team while working side by side with them in code quality, clean infrastructure-as-code, soft skills, best practices, etc</li> <li>Lead team trainings, set SMART goals, hold performance reviews, and provide individual feedback recurrently to each of your devs</li> </ul> <p><strong>Nice to have:&nbsp;</strong></p> <ul> <li>Experience leading a team through a significant architectural migration</li> <li>Experience with consumer platforms at scale</li> <li>Experience building in regulated environments</li> <li>Experience operating self-hosted observability stacks (Prometheus, Thanos, Loki, Grafana, Tempo, OpenTelemetry)</li> <li>Experience building internal developer platforms or self-service tooling</li> <li>Experience supporting .NET/C# application deployments</li> <li>Experience with database operations (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ)</li> <li>Experience with Istio or other service meshes</li> </ul> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p><div class="content-conclusion"><p><strong>We offer*:</strong></p> <ul> <li>Flexible working format - remote, office-based or flexible</li> <li>A competitive salary and good compensation package</li> <li>Personalized career growth</li> <li>Professional development tools (mentorship program, tech talks and trainings, centers of excellence, and more)</li> <li>Active tech communities with regular knowledge sharing</li> <li>Education reimbursement</li> <li>Memorable anniversary presents</li> <li>Corporate events and team buildings</li> <li>Other location-specific benefits</li> </ul> <p>*not applicable for freelancers</p></div>