DevOps Tech Lead

The project is moving everything towards GCP and Kubernetes. We’re growing towards a scale that no longer matches our legacy architecture and actively investing in modernization. We’re migrating on-premise workloads to GKE, strengthening security and business continuity best practices, and moving toward platform self-service for our development teams. A core goal is to consolidate and shrink the stack and every migration decision is measured against whether it lowers the daily burden on the team. Requirements: - Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience. - 2+ years of experience being a mentor/leader, of which: - 1+ years leading a team, formally or as a tech lead - 7+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, or Infrastructure Engineering, of which: - 3+ years running production workloads on Kubernetes (GKE preferred) - 3+ years of experience with a major cloud provider and Infrastructure as Code. GCP is our primary cloud and we expect senior-level knowledge of IAM, networking, KMS, GKE, CloudSQL and Secret Manager - 3+ years of experience operating at a Senior, Staff, or Principal Engineer level. - Experience with CI/CD pipeline design and operations - Experience with GitOps (FluxCD or ArgoCD) - Experience working directly with engineering teams and other managers as your customers on scoping and prioritization - Experience leading incident response, including running postmortems Responsibilities - Work with your team to design, build, and operate the infrastructure the rest of engineering depends on: clusters, pipelines, databases, edge, and observability - Your customers are the other engineering teams. Work with the other Engineering Managers and product development leadership to scope and prioritize platform work - Set the quality bar for your team. Lead by example. - Manage, lead, and mentor your team while working side by side with them in code quality, clean infrastructure-as-code, soft skills, best practices, etc - Lead team trainings, set SMART goals, hold performance reviews, and provide individual feedback recurrently to each of your devs Nice to have: - Experience leading a team through a significant architectural migration - Experience with consumer platforms at scale - Experience building in regulated environments - Experience operating self-hosted observability stacks (Prometheus, Thanos, Loki, Grafana, Tempo, OpenTelemetry) - Experience building internal developer platforms or self-service tooling - Experience supporting .NET/C# application deployments - Experience with database operations (PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Redis, RabbitMQ) - Experience with Istio or other service meshes We offer*: - Flexible working format - remote, office-based or flexible - A competitive salary and good compensation package - Personalized career growth - Professional development tools (mentorship program, tech talks and trainings, centers of excellence, and more) - Active tech communities with regular knowledge sharing - Education reimbursement - Memorable anniversary presents - Corporate events and team buildings - Other location-specific benefits *not applicable for freelancers