Head of Infrastructure and DevOps

Smartcat; Portugal; Presencial; EUR 110 000 - 150 000; Tempo integral

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Remote-friendly roles

Resumo da oferta

Smartcat is seeking a senior leader to manage DevOps and Infrastructure teams, ensuring the availability, scalability, and reliability of staging and production environments. You will define and enforce SRE and DevOps practices while guiding cross-region teams.

The role emphasizes hands-on CI/CD, IaC, and secure development in cloud environments (AWS/Azure/GCP), with a strong metrics-driven approach and global collaboration.

Qualificações

• 3 years of experience leading a team in a fast-growing multinational IT business.
• 5 years of experience in DevOps and SRE, maintaining high-RPS distributed products.
• Data-driven decisions using metrics and concrete evidence.
• Ability to interface between teams and the environment.
• Hands-on DevOps with CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and deployment strategies.
• Experience implementing secure development environments.
• Practical cloud experience (AWS, Azure, GCP).

Responsabilidades

• Lead DevOps and Infrastructure teams to improve and maintain technical infrastructure.
• Ensure availability, scalability and reliability of staging and production environments.
• Define and enforce best SRE and DevOps practices across teams.
• Build relationships across regions and manage hiring and career development.
• Develop resilient systems and deployment strategies in the cloud.

Conhecimentos

Team leadership

DevOps & SRE

CI/CD pipelines

IaC

Cloud platforms

Security-minded

Stakeholder mgmt

Cross-team collaboration

Descrição da oferta de emprego

About Smartcat

Smartcat is building the future of work, where human expertise meets digital teammates to drive 10x to 1000x productivity gains for the world’s leading enterprises.

About Smartcat

Smartcat is building the future of work, where human expertise meets digital teammates to drive 10x to 1000x productivity gains for the world’s leading enterprises. We’re on the frontier of an entirely new category: Agentic AI. We enable enterprises to build high-performing hybrid workforces made up of both humans and AI agents. These AI agents aren’t generic copilots. They’re fully trained digital teammates that learn from your best people, your content, and your business strategy—ready to get to work from day one. Our platform combines generative AI, human-in-the-loop workflows, and a living Enterprise Skill Graph that continuously learns and improves. Whether you’re launching a product globally, onboarding new hires, translating learning content, or aligning legal teams across regions, Smartcat turns knowledge into action and action into scale. Over 1,000 companies, including 20% of the Fortune 500, rely on Smartcat to bring their business to the world—instantly, accurately, and in every language. As a Series C company with consistently high year-over-year growth, we’re scaling fast and investing in people who want to shape the future of work with us. Join us in unlocking global potential, one human and agent team at a time.

Mission

We are looking for a true leader who will manage DevOps and Infrastructure teams to improve, and maintain the technical infrastructure required to support the development, deployment, and operation of Smartcat. This includes ensuring the availability, scalability, and reliability of staging and production environments, and defining and enforcing best SRE and DevOps practices.

Outcomes

• Zero Incorrect Release-Related Production Issues:
  • Enforce rigorous CI/CD testing and reviews to eliminate release errors.
• CI/CD and Staging Servers Availability at 99.9%:
  • Maintain robust staging infrastructure with minimal downtime, ensuring a 99.9% uptime.
• Product Availability at 99.99%:
  • Implement resilient systems and procedures for near-perfect product uptime, with effective disaster recovery plans.
• Decrease Lead time by accelerating CI/CD pipelines and environments
• Build and manage a team of A+ players within the engineering organisation across different regions and time zones. You are expected to strengthen the hiring process, provide expert technical guidance, effective coaching, and career development for your team members

Requirements

• 3 years of experience leading a team in a fast-growing multinational IT business;
• 5 years of experience in DevOps and SRE, maintaining high-RPS (Requests Per Second) distributed products;
• Utilize a data-driven approach. Ability to justify decisions using concrete metrics;
• Can build relationships with neighboring teams, initiate and adhere to agreements, and act as an interface between your team and the environment;
• Strong hands‑on experience with DevOps practices (in a leading role), specifically in building complex CI/CD pipelines, implementing IaC (Infrastructure as Code), and realizing various deployment strategies;
• Experience in implementing secure development environments;
• Possess practical experience in developing and maintaining large scalable applications in the cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP);

Tech Stack

• Net Core, MongoDB, Vue 2/3, AWS, Kafka, ES, Gitlab CI, Prometheus, Victoria Metrics, Jaeger, k8s

Why joining Smartcat might be your best move so far

• A global, connected team We’re a team of 200+ people across 30+ countries, working together through a hub-and-spoke model anchored in eight key locations: New York, London, Lisbon, Costa Rica, Serbia, Armenia, Georgia, and Spain. Most of our roles are remote‑friendly, giving you the flexibility to do your best work from where you thrive. For customer‑facing teams, we prioritize proximity to our customers, ensuring we stay deeply connected to their needs and deliver an exceptional experience. No matter where you’re based, you’ll be part of a highly collaborative, globally‑distributed team that values ownership, speed, and meaningful impact.
• Be part of an AI Native Organization We are highly innovative, using AI across all areas of the organization to accelerate decision‑making and free people to focus on strategy and high‑impact work. We embrace new ideas and encourage all Smartcaters, regardless of level or department, to manage their own AI Agents. At Smartcat you’ll shape how AI transforms the workplace and play an integral role in ensuring Smartcat remains a leader in AI innovation.
• Innovating a $100 Billion industry Smartcat is reshaping the $100B multilingual content industry with an AI‑powered platform that makes it easy for companies to create, translate, and localize global content at scale. Our platform enables enterprise teams to move away from slow, traditional outsourcing methods, and achieve fast, high‑quality results, at a fraction of the cost.
• Join the rocketship to scale‑up 10x and beyond together We are looking for someone to become an integral part of our team and play a crucial role in the most exciting part of our journey: transitioning from a post-Series C startup to a company exceeding $100M in ARR and $1B in valuation. Our journey isn’t for the faint of heart. We are growing at 130% YoY, thanks to our strong product‑market fit and high‑performing team, and plan to accelerate from here.
• Smartcat Culture Code: Where Diversity Meets High Performance At Smartcat, we are committed to building a culture that highlights respect and appreciation for each individual's unique background and perspective, while maintaining a strong focus on results and engagement. We believe in welcoming everyone and fostering an inclusive environment where team members can be their authentic selves at work. Our commitment to inclusion is steadfast, and we stand firmly against discrimination and harassment.