Infra Platform Tech Lead — Kubernetes, Scale & Security

Deel; Cagliari; Ibrido; EUR 120.000 - 180.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Flexible office membership

Total rewards programs

Competitive pay

Descrizione del lavoro

Deel is seeking an Infrastructure Tech Lead to guide the technical direction of the core platform used by hundreds of engineers. You will design scalable infrastructure, stay hands-on with architecture and code, and shape the roadmap for enterprise-grade deployments across multi-cloud environments.

You will lead incident response, automate toil, and elevate observability with OpenTelemetry while collaborating with DevOps, DBA, and InfoSec.

Competenze

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• 5+ years focused on infrastructure (AWS/GCP, Kubernetes, Helm, GitOps, CNCF landscape).
• 2+ years as a technical lead with distributed, cross-timezone teams.
• Experience with distributed systems and event-driven architectures (Kafka, NATS).
• Kubernetes architecture and operational experience (operators/controllers, platform primitives).
• Relational databases experience (PostgreSQL/MySQL) and scaling within platforms.
• Proven delivery track record from inception to shipping.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.

Mansioni

• Design and implement infrastructure patterns and primitives on Kubernetes to support a growing microservices ecosystem.
• Shape roadmap and act as technical lead, balancing architecture, delivery, and developer experience.
• Lead incident response, automate toil, and reduce noise with engineering solutions.
• Automate service provisioning, database setups, and environment registrations for rapid deployments.
• Drive edge routing, traffic management, and migrations of large-scale backend workloads.
• Oversee secrets management and security posture, including zero-downtime rotations.
• Evolve the observability stack with OpenTelemetry and scalable logging.
• Develop real-time platform capabilities (e.g., WebSocket workloads) and agentic infrastructure.
• Collaborate with DevOps, DBA, InfoSec, and product engineering to align on goals.
• Represent infra domain in architectural discussions and resolve multi-team challenges.

Conoscenze

Infrastructure design

Kubernetes

AWS/GCP

Distributed systems

OpenTelemetry

Communication

DevOps collaboration

Incident response

GitOps

PostgreSQL/MySQL

Strumenti

Kafka

NATS

Helm

Docker

CI/CD

Descrizione del lavoro

Deel is seeking an Infrastructure Tech Lead to guide the technical direction of the core platform used by hundreds of engineers. You will design scalable infrastructure, stay hands-on with architecture and code, and shape the roadmap for enterprise-grade deployments across multi-cloud environments.

You will lead incident response, automate toil, and elevate observability with OpenTelemetry while collaborating with DevOps, DBA, and InfoSec.