Lead DevOps Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in India.

📋 Description

• Design and sustain automated provisioning pipelines (PXE, ZTP) for deploying bare-metal servers, ensuring the configuration of hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage, etc., aligns with standards and project/operational requirements at scale across global data centers.

• Explore and propose innovative and automated solutions for system administration tasks.

• Conduct regular security monitoring to detect potential intrusions.

• Troubleshoot and recover from hardware or software failures, collaborating with affected teams.

• Regularly apply OS patches and upgrades, as well as update administrative tools and utilities.

• Oversee the maintenance of data center environmental and monitoring equipment.

• Engage in continuous performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as needed.

• Serve as a technical lead and reliable point of contact for the infrastructure team, promoting operational excellence and best engineering practices.

• Assist in mentoring and onboarding engineers, enhancing team collaboration and communication, and contributing to the team’s growth as the infrastructure organization expands.

• Report directly to the CTO, closely collaborating with other technology teams to enhance reliability, automation, monitoring, and incident response processes throughout the infrastructure stack.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of 8 years of experience in DevOps, system administration/debugging, and scripting tools.

• Over 2 years of experience in Team Lead or people management roles.

• Willingness to work in rotational shifts as part of the incident response team.

• Proficient in coding with Shell, Python/Java, and SQL commands.

• Practical experience with Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet/Chef for managing bare-metal configurations and automations.

• Strong understanding of L4/L7 load balancing (HAProxy/Nginx) and network performance tuning (TCP/IP stack optimization).

• Familiarity with pipeline/orchestration tools such as Jenkins/Airflow and similar platforms is essential.

• Knowledge of observability platforms (Prometheus, Grafana, InfluxDB) is required.

• Understanding of Kubernetes is a plus.

• Hands-on experience with Unix/Linux systems.

• A Bachelor’s degree in a technical field, such as engineering or computer science.

• Certification in Unix systems administration/system engineering is an added advantage.

🏝️ Benefits

• Direct reporting to the Co-founder & CTO.

• Immediate access to top management and a highly visible role.

• Outstanding career growth and learning opportunities.

• Fully remote work environment.

• A distinctive chance to join a skilled team of industry experts and entrepreneurs making significant changes in the Adtech market.

• A dynamic, motivated, and diverse team situated across Germany, India, the UK, Argentina, Ukraine, Turkey, Spain, and many other countries.

• Flexible work-from-home options.

• A $500 budget for home-office setup.

• A $1,000 annual budget for learning and development.