Infrastructure Team Lead

Airship; Remote; GBP 73,000 - 91,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology company is looking for an Infrastructure Engineering Team Lead to guide a team supporting cloud infrastructure. You'll provide technical leadership, manage projects, and ensure scalability. The ideal candidate has over 5 years in infrastructure roles, strong communication skills, and experience with cloud platforms. This is a fully remote role with a competitive salary and opportunities for growth, along with benefits including medical insurance and flexible time off.

Benefits

Medical insurance options

Flexible time off

Paid parental leave

Remote work stipend

Mentorship and growth opportunities

Qualifications

• 5+ years in backend or infrastructure engineering roles.
• Experience providing technical leadership or mentorship.
• Strong project management skills—able to drive initiatives from planning to delivery.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to infrastructure engineers.
• Anticipate, plan, and execute infrastructure projects.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, and security teams.

Skills

Technical leadership

Project management

Excellent communication in English

Cloud platforms experience

Experience with AI tools

Tools

Terraform

Docker

Kubernetes

CI/CD systems

Python

Go

Java

Job description

Airship is trusted by world’s leading brands such as Alaska Airlines, BBC and The Home Depot to drive revenue growth and customer loyalty with exceptional cross-channel customer experiences. Today, brands are challenged to deliver seamless, unified customer experiences across a fragmented array of channels and devices— apps, websites, email, SMS, wallets and more.

Airship’s no-code, AI-powered platform was designed with non-technical, growth-focused teams in mind, making it easy to create, test and orchestrate hyper-personalized experiences across all channels. With the ability to easily enrich customer data and rapidly launch growth experiments, Airship enables brands to deliver consistent, meaningful interactions that accelerate conversion and foster deeper customer relationships.

We invite you to be part of our journey in building products and delivering services that touch millions of customers around the world every day.

Airship powers customer engagement for some of the world's most recognized brands, processing trillions of mobile app interactions through a large-scale distributed data system. The Infrastructure Team builds and maintains the foundation for these systems—providing tooling, automation, expertise, and implementation for core cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and observability.

We're looking for an Infrastructure Engineering Team Lead to guide a team supporting Airship's cloud infrastructure, build processes, and monitoring systems. You'll provide technical leadership for two engineers based in France, with potential for the team to grow over time. This role reports to the Director of Infrastructure, who is based in the United States.

This is a hands‑on technical leadership role. You'll drive project execution, provide technical guidance to teammates, and ensure our cloud environment scales with Airship and our customers.

What You’ll Do

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to infrastructure engineers
• Anticipate, plan, and execute infrastructure projects aligned with company and customer needs
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, product, and security teams
• Support broader company initiatives as needed beyond the immediate team scope
• Maintain and improve cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform
• Drive improvements in CI/CD pipelines, observability, and automation
• Evaluate and implement emerging infrastructure tools and practices
• Support company initiatives around cost optimization, security, disaster recovery, and compliance
• Respond to and manage critical incidents effectively

What We’re Looking For

• 5+ years in backend or infrastructure engineering roles
• Experience providing technical leadership or mentorship
• Strong project management skills—able to drive initiatives from planning to delivery
• Excellent communication skills in English (required for collaboration with U.S.-based leadership)
• Experience with cloud platforms (GCP preferred, AWS acceptable)
• Experience experimenting with AI tools in your personal or professional life – or an eagerness to learn!

We’d Be Delighted If You Also Have

• Hands‑on experience with Terraform or other Infrastructure as Code tools
• Familiarity with container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with CI/CD systems (GitHub Actions, Jenkins, Spinnaker)
• Background in Python, Go, Java, or equivalent for automation and tooling
• Knowledge of security best practices, networking fundamentals, and incident management

Work Location & Travel Requirements

Airship’s ‘Digital First’ approach to work means that for the majority of our roles, work can be performed remotely, either some or most of the time. Airship believes that flexible work contributes to a more productive and more equitable work environment, and that Airshippers are to collaborate, innovate, and support one another across different locations and time‑zones.

Some roles may require that employees perform their work from a specific location to support business activities, and/or be within proximity to an Airship office location or customer or partner locations, while other roles can be performed 100% remotely.

This position is fully remote and may require up to 10% travel based on business needs or as requested by your manager.

Compensation

The starting base pay range for this position is: €85,000 - €105,000 EUR per year. Base pay is part of the total compensation package and is determined by a variety of factors such as relevant skills, work experience, business priorities, market demands, and location. This role offers stock options, providing a direct opportunity to share in Airship’s success.

• Medical insurance options for you and your dependents
• Flexible time off, paid holidays, paid parental leave, and paid volunteer time off
• Support for your overall wellbeing with employer‑subsidized mental health and employee wellness programs
• A digital‑first work environment and a monthly stipend to support remote work
• Mentorship and growth opportunities to build skills and accelerate professional development
• And more!

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Hiring Commitment

Airship is committed to fostering a diverse work environment and providing equal employment opportunities to all applicants and employees. We welcome your application and our hiring and employment decisions are made irrespective of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status or any other characteristic protected by law. In alignment with our commitment to equal opportunity, Airship will consider for employment all qualified applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a way that adheres to the principles of fairness and the requirements of local Fair Chance laws, where applicable.

By submitting this application, I affirm that the facts set forth in it are true and complete to the best of my knowledge. I understand that if I am employed, false statements, omissions, or misleading information given in my application, interview(s), or in a background check may result in dismissal.