We’re looking for a DevOps Lead to take technical and strategic ownership of infrastructure operations for our global SaaS messaging platform. You will lead and mentor a small team of DevOps engineers while staying hands-on with critical infrastructure decisions. Your main focus will be ensuring high availability, performance, security, and scalability of our production systems, as well as improving our CI/CD workflows and platform observability. This is a leadership role with direct impact on platform reliability and product delivery.
Team leadership: Guide, support, and mentor a team of DevOps engineers, set priorities, and align efforts with product and engineering goals
Infrastructure strategy: Define and evolve the architecture of our cloud infrastructure (OVH, OpenStack, bare-metal), ensuring it scales with product growth
CI/CD ownership: Oversee the design and maintenance of CI/CD systems (GitLab CI, Bitbucket Pipelines), ensuring fast and stable deployment cycles
Infrastructure as code: Lead adoption and maintenance of IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible) for consistent infrastructure provisioning
System monitoring and reliability: Improve system observability using monitoring and logging tools (Zabbix, Prometheus, Loki) and lead incident response practices
Security and compliance: Ensure infrastructure security and compliance with best practices, including DDoS mitigation and access control
Collaboration and planning: Work closely with engineering leadership, developers, and QA to align infrastructure efforts with roadmap goals
Automation: Drive automation initiatives to reduce manual work and improve system reliability
Database operations: Oversee high-performance, low-latency database operations (PostgreSQL, MongoDB) and support data growth planning
Environment management: Maintain and support multiple environments, ensuring consistency and reliability across dev, staging, and production setups
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