Manager of Infrastructure and DevOps

Smartcat was founded in 2016 to help global enterprises create and manage their multilingual content. Today, Smartcat is the essential language AI platform for the global enterprise.

Our client-tailored language AI turns content in any format into any language, from documents to videos to complex websites and software, making global operations simple for any corporate team. It also allows any user to create new content by tapping into a multilingual enterprise library.

More than 1,000 global companies including 25% of the Fortune 500 trust Smartcat to communicate their innovations and ideas all over the world.

Smartcat’s vision is to realize a world where there is equal access to innovations and ideas.

Smartcat is backed by Matrix Partners, FJ Labs, and other leading VC firms focusing on SaaS, marketplaces and AI. You might recognize names like HubSpot, Zendesk, Uber, Stripe, RigUp, and Quora in their portfolios. Despite the economic recession, Smartcat is growing at 150% YoY. It's well-funded and capital efficient, providing a unique combination of a hyper-growth environment with downside protection and the ability to think and plan long-term.

Mission:

We are looking for a true leader who will manage DevOps and Infrastructure teams to improve, and maintain the technical infrastructure required to support the development, deployment, and operation of Smartcat.

This includes ensuring the availability, scalability, and reliability of staging and production environments, and defining and enforcing best SRE and DevOps practices.

Outcomes:

Zero Incorrect Release-Related Production Issues:

Enforce rigorous CI/CD testing and reviews to eliminate release errors.

CI/CD and Staging Servers Availability at 99.9%:

Maintain robust staging infrastructure with minimal downtime, ensuring a 99.9% uptime.

Product Availability at 99.99%:

Implement resilient systems and procedures for near-perfect product uptime, with effective disaster recovery plans.

Decrease Lead time by accelerating CI/CD pipelines and environments

Build and manage a team of A+ players within the engineering organisation across different regions and time zones. You are expected to strengthen the hiring process, provide expert technical guidance, effective coaching, and career development for your team members

Requirements:

3 years of experience leading a team in a fast-growing multinational IT business;

5 years of experience in DevOps and SRE, maintaining high-RPS (Requests Per Second) distributed products;

Utilize a data-driven approach. Ability to justify decisions using concrete metrics;

Can build relationships with neighboring teams, initiate and adhere to agreements, and act as an interface between your team and the environment;

Strong hands-on experience with DevOps practices (in a leading role), specifically in building complex CI/CD pipelines, implementing IaC (Infrastructure as Code), and realizing various deployment strategies;

Experience in implementing secure development environments;

Possess practical experience in developing and maintaining large scalable applications in the cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP);

Tech Stack:

.Net Core, MongoDB, Vue 2/3, AWS, Kafka, ES, Gitlab CI, Prometheus, Victoria Metrics, Jaeger, k8s