Engineering Manager, DevOps

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Poland, +5 more countries.

📋 Description

• Lead the DevOps operations across Site Reliability Engineering and Platform Engineering teams.

• Take ownership of DevOps roadmaps, priorities, commitments, delivery outcomes, dependencies, and execution risks.

• Establish planning and execution methodologies that facilitate predictable delivery of complex infrastructure projects.

• Oversee operational reliability and long-term platform development while balancing production demands with strategic enhancements.

• Manage and nurture DevOps engineers, including conducting performance reviews, career development, input on compensation and promotions, hiring, team structure, and addressing performance issues.

• Collaborate with Engineering Managers, Team Leads, and engineers to identify infrastructure needs and troubleshoot systemic issues.

• Provide hands-on technical leadership through architecture discussions, technical decision reviews, troubleshooting, and direct involvement in resolving complex challenges.

• Enhance platform availability, resilience, observability, incident response, capacity management, and operational readiness.

• Strengthen incident management processes, root-cause analysis, postmortems, and the elimination of recurring operational challenges.

• Propel initiatives involving Kubernetes, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, observability, scalability, security, and developer experience.

• Automate bottlenecks and repetitive operational tasks to boost engineering productivity.

• Assess infrastructure architecture, resource utilization, and cloud expenses to enhance performance, reliability, and cost efficiency.

• Build an AI-driven engineering organization and integrate AI into design, prototyping, refactoring, testing, and code review.

⛳️ Requirements

• Demonstrated experience leading infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering teams while balancing technical leadership, delivery accountability, and people management.

• Capability to create realistic roadmaps, decompose complex technical initiatives into actionable tasks, establish commitments and deadlines, identify risks, and drive initiatives to completion.

• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to clearly convey ideas to engineers and leadership, challenge assumptions constructively, explain technical trade-offs, and foster alignment around priorities and decisions.

• Extensive experience in building and managing production infrastructure, with the technical depth expected from a Senior/Lead/Staff-level DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineer.

• Profound production experience with Google Cloud Platform, encompassing GKE, Compute Engine, networking, IAM, DNS, load balancing, and cloud cost optimization.

• Strong understanding of Kubernetes architecture, networking, ingress, storage, autoscaling, security, cluster lifecycle, and troubleshooting in production environments.

• Solid production experience with Terraform/Terragrunt, Helm, and infrastructure automation.

• Significant experience designing and operating modern delivery platforms using Argo CD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps.

• Experience managing high-availability production environments, participating in on-call rotations, troubleshooting distributed systems, and leading incident response efforts.

• Strong grasp of metrics, logs, tracing, alerting, SLOs, and production monitoring using Prometheus, Grafana, Loki/ELK, or similar platforms.

• Ability to analyze complex distributed systems, understand dependencies and failure modes, and make practical architectural trade-offs regarding reliability, scalability, delivery speed, and cost.

• Proficiency in AI: comfort working in AI-driven engineering environments and utilizing AI as a key productivity enhancer.

• Preferred experience with SRE and Platform Engineering leadership, high-load real-time distributed platforms, SLOs/SLIs/error budgets, internal developer platforms, Kafka, PostgreSQL/AlloyDB, Redis, FinOps, iGaming, product companies or scale-ups, and Staff/Principal or Architect-level roles.

🏝️ Benefits

• Full remote flexibility — work from wherever you do your best thinking.

• Generous paid time off, including vacation, sick leave, and bank holidays.

• Authentic, unlimited growth opportunities in a rapidly scaling business.

• Engaging company events.

• Team-oriented work environment.