Key role in shaping technical direction and operational culture while transitioning to a distributed services platform with a focus on reliability and automation.
Lead and mentor a team of DevOps / Platform engineers, helping them expand their impact, ownership, and technical maturity;
Set direction for the DevOps function and build a strong culture around collaboration, accountability, and operational excellence;
Help engineering teams adopt scalable, reliable ways of building, deploying, and operating services as we evolve toward a service-oriented architecture;
Drive improvements in reliability, observability, incident management, CI/CD, and deployment practices;
Support self-service infrastructure, reusable tooling, and secure-by-default delivery workflows;
Stay close to the technical domain to coach effectively, guide decisions, and promote pragmatic, cost-aware scaling.
Experience leading or mentoring DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering teams;
A strong hands-on background in infrastructure, platform engineering, or site reliability, even if your current role is more focused on people leadership;
Experience supporting organizations through scale, especially during architecture and operating model changes;
The ability to balance technical strategy with people management and execution;
Strong communication and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to align multiple teams around shared practices and priorities;
Demonstrated track record of improving engineering effectiveness through automation, platform thinking, and operational maturity;
A solid understanding of modern infrastructure and cloud-native practices, including areas such as Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, containers, observability, and reliability engineering.
Led teams through monolith-to-microservices transitions;
Have experience in building or scaling Platform Engineering or Internal Developer Platform capabilities;
Implemented SLO-driven reliability practices and improved incident response / on-call processes;
Have formalized DevOps ways of working across multiple teams in a growing engineering organization.
Flexible Work Hours
the possibility of up to two remote days per week
Health Insurance
health insurance and regular mental health checks
Community and celebrations
yearly workation, Friday get-togethers, various team buildings and company celebrations
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