Senior DevOps, Infrastructure Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Oversee the DevOps and Infrastructure teams.

• Enhance and sustain the technical infrastructure that supports Smartcat's development, deployment, and operational activities.

• Guarantee the availability, scalability, and dependability of both staging and production environments.

• Establish and uphold best practices for SRE and DevOps.

• Implement thorough CI/CD testing and reviews to mitigate production issues linked to releases.

• Maintain the staging infrastructure with a goal of achieving 99.9% uptime.

• Develop resilient systems along with disaster recovery plans and procedures aimed at ensuring 99.99% product availability.

• Enhance CI/CD pipelines and environments to reduce lead times.

• Construct and lead a high-performing engineering team across multiple regions and time zones.

• Refine hiring processes while offering technical guidance, coaching, and career development.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years of experience in a leadership role within a rapidly growing multinational IT company.

• At least 5 years of experience in DevOps and SRE, particularly with high-RPS distributed products.

• A data-driven mindset with the capacity to substantiate decisions through concrete metrics.

• Ability to cultivate relationships with adjacent teams and serve as an interface among them.

• Solid hands-on experience in constructing complex CI/CD pipelines.

• Proficient in implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC).

• Experience in applying various deployment strategies.

• Competence in creating secure development environments.

• Practical knowledge in developing and maintaining large-scale cloud applications.

• Familiarity with AWS, Azure, or GCP.

• Experience with technologies such as .NET Core, MongoDB, Vue 2/3, Kafka, Elasticsearch, GitLab CI, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Jaeger, and Kubernetes.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible remote work options.

• A globally distributed team across more than 30 countries.

• The flexibility to work from locations that suit you best.

• An AI-native organization offering opportunities to manage AI agents.

• A culture of inclusion focused on respect, diversity, and anti-discrimination.

• Opportunities for career development and coaching available to team members.