DevOps Tech Lead

The opportunityAs our DevOps Activity Leader, you will join our R&D leadership team to set the technical vision for our infrastructure. Working alongside our Data/ML, Mobile, and Backend leaders, you will play a key role in shaping our company's overall technical strategy.

Your expertise will transform our infrastructure and deployment. You'll design scalable cloud architectures to accelerate innovation, champion a world-class DevOps culture to empower developers, and build the foundation for our future growth.

• Strategic Impact: A direct line of sight between your work and key business outcomes, with influence on strategic technical decisions across the entire business unit.

• Technical Leadership: Shape the future of our infrastructure and own the architectural roadmap for our cloud and deployment ecosystem.

• Innovation Playground: Experiment with emerging technologies and implement solutions at scale in a collaborative, forward-thinking environment.

• Technology Breadth: Work across the full DevOps spectrum – from Infrastructure as Code and Kubernetes to DataOps and developer productivity tools.


• Growth Trajectory: A clear path for career advancement as you demonstrate success and grow your leadership scope.

What you'll be doing

• Lead Technical Strategy: Define the technical vision and roadmap for our DevOps and Production Engineering capabilities, aligning multiple teams around common patterns, tools, and practices.


• Design Cloud-Native Solutions: Architect and implement secure, scalable cloud infrastructure using Kubernetes, IaC, and other modern frameworks to power our growing technology ecosystem.


• Accelerate Developer Experience: Spearhead improvements to our CI/CD pipelines, developer portals, and internal platforms to empower engineering teams to ship higher-quality software, faster.


• Optimize Data Infrastructure: Engineer and support robust platforms for our data-intensive workloads, ensuring the performance, reliability, and cost-effectiveness of systems leveraging technologies like Kafka.


• Drive DevOps Transformation: Mentor team members, lead the Production Engineering & DevOps Infra function, and collaborate with fellow R&D leaders to champion modern practices across the organization.

What we're looking for

• Cloud Platform Expertise: Deep hands-on experience with AWS/Azure/GCP services, Kubernetes cluster management, and implementing secure, scalable cloud infrastructure architectures.


• Infrastructure as Code Mastery: Proven ability to design and implement infrastructure automation using tools like Terraform, CloudFormation, or Pulumi at enterprise scale.


• CI/CD & GitOps Expertise: Demonstrated success building and optimizing continuous integration and delivery pipelines using modern tools (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, ArgoCD).


• Data Infrastructure Knowledge: Experience designing and implementing infrastructure for data-intensive workloads, including data processing pipelines (Kafka), storage solutions, and observability systems.


• Database Expertise: Deep knowledge of relational databases (e.g., MySQL, SingleStore, PostgreSQL), including performance tuning and scalability best practices.

You might also have

• Experience with big data processing applications using Spark.


• Knowledge of Machine Learning platforms such as Ray or Seldon Core.


• Proficiency in a scripting language like Python or Go for automation.


• Familiarity with DevSecOps practices and automated security tooling.


• Experience with cloud cost management and FinOps principles.

Additional information

• Relocation support is not available for this position.


• Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position

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