Engineering Manager, DevOps Background

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Poland, +2 more countries.

📋 Description

• Oversee the DevOps function within the Site Reliability Engineering and Platform Engineering teams.

• Manage DevOps roadmaps, set priorities, ensure commitments, deliver outcomes, and establish realistic timelines.

• Implement planning and execution methodologies, monitor progress, identify risks, manage dependencies, and guarantee initiative ownership.

• Lead efforts to enhance operational reliability and support long-term platform development.

• Supervise and develop DevOps engineers, focusing on performance evaluations, career advancement, compensation and promotion input, hiring, team structure, and addressing performance issues.

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

• Engage in architecture discussions, challenge technical decisions, evaluate proposed solutions, and actively contribute to solving complex problems.

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

• Strengthen incident management processes, conduct root-cause analyses, perform postmortems, and eliminate recurring operational challenges.

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

• Automate repetitive operational tasks to boost engineering productivity.

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

• Develop a high-performing DevOps organization characterized by clear ownership, predictable output, mature reliability practices, and measurable platform enhancements.

⛳️ Requirements

• Demonstrated experience in leading infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering teams.

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

• Excellent communication skills.

• Extensive background in building and managing production infrastructure, with Senior/Lead/Staff-level technical expertise in DevOps, SRE, or Platform Engineering.

• In-depth production experience with Google Cloud Platform, including GKE, Compute Engine, networking, IAM, DNS, load balancing, and cloud cost optimization.

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

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

• Considerable experience designing and managing CI/CD and GitOps platforms using technologies such as Argo CD, GitHub Actions, Jenkins, or Azure DevOps.

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

• Solid understanding of metrics, logs, tracing, alerting, SLOs, and production monitoring utilizing platforms like Prometheus, Grafana, Loki/ELK, or similar.

• Ability to analyze complex distributed systems, dependencies, failure modes, and architectural trade-offs.

• Current location must be included as part of the application.

• Nice-to-have: experience leading both SRE and Platform Engineering teams; high-load, real-time distributed platforms; SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets; internal developer platforms; Kafka; PostgreSQL/AlloyDB; Redis; FinOps; iGaming; product companies or fast-growing scale-ups; Staff/Principal DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineer, or Infrastructure Architect experience.

🏝️ Benefits

• Full remote flexibility — work from wherever you are most productive.

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

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

• Engaging company events.

• Collaborative, team-oriented work environment.