Senior DevOps and Infrastructure Engineer

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