Infra Platform Tech Lead: Scale, Kubernetes & Secure Ops

Deel; Verona; In loco; EUR 120.000 - 160.000; Tempo pieno

Vantaggi offerti da questo lavoro

Flexible working office membership

Total rewards programs

Competitive pay aligned with market

Disability accommodations

Descrizione del lavoro

Deel seeks an experienced Infrastructure Tech Lead to guide architecture, design scalable infrastructure, and craft patterns on Kubernetes for a growing microservices platform. You will drive edge routing, provisioning automation, and security posture while shaping the technical roadmap.

With 10+ years in software engineering and 5+ years in infrastructure, you will lead distributed teams, collaborate across DevOps, DBA, and InfoSec, and deliver reliable, observable systems at scale for Deel.

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.
• Bias for action and decision documentation.
• Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration.
• Kubernetes and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP).
• Helm and GitOps.
• CNCF technologies.

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

10+ years software engineering

5+ years infrastructure

2+ years technical lead

Distributed systems

Event-driven (Kafka/NATS)

Kubernetes architecture

Relational databases

Delivery track record

Communication skills

Cross-functional collaboration

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP)

Helm & GitOps

CNCF technologies

Strumenti

Kubernetes

Helm

GitOps

Kafka

NATS

OpenTelemetry

PostgreSQL

MySQL

AWS

GCP

Descrizione del lavoro

Deel seeks an experienced Infrastructure Tech Lead to guide architecture, design scalable infrastructure, and craft patterns on Kubernetes for a growing microservices platform. You will drive edge routing, provisioning automation, and security posture while shaping the technical roadmap.

With 10+ years in software engineering and 5+ years in infrastructure, you will lead distributed teams, collaborate across DevOps, DBA, and InfoSec, and deliver reliable, observable systems at scale for Deel.