[Hiring] DevOps Lead @Textmagic AS

Textmagic AS; United States; Remote; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking a DevOps Lead to take charge of infrastructure operations for a global SaaS messaging platform. This leadership role offers the opportunity to mentor a dedicated team while making critical decisions that impact platform reliability and performance. You will be responsible for ensuring high availability and security, improving CI/CD workflows, and enhancing observability. If you are passionate about driving automation and have a strong background in cloud infrastructure, this role is perfect for you. Join a forward-thinking team and make a significant impact on product delivery and operational excellence.

Qualifications

• Proven experience in a senior DevOps role within a SaaS environment.
• Strong Linux system administration and Kubernetes experience.
• Familiarity with CI/CD systems and infrastructure as code tools.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a team of DevOps engineers and guide infrastructure strategy.
• Oversee CI/CD systems ensuring fast and stable deployment cycles.
• Improve system observability and ensure infrastructure security.

Skills

Linux System Administration

Kubernetes

Networking

CI/CD

Database Management

Infrastructure as Code

Automation

Monitoring Tools

Fluent in English and Russian

Education

Experience in Senior DevOps Role

Familiarity with Version Control

Tools

GitLab CI

Bitbucket Pipelines

Terraform

Ansible

Zabbix

Prometheus

Loki

PostgreSQL

MongoDB

Job description

Apr 15, 2025 - Textmagic AS is hiring a remote DevOps Lead. Location: Estonia.

Role overview

We’re looking for a DevOps Lead to take technical and strategic ownership of infrastructure operations for our global SaaS messaging platform. You will lead and mentor a small team of DevOps engineers while staying hands-on with critical infrastructure decisions. Your main focus will be ensuring high availability, performance, security, and scalability of our production systems, as well as improving our CI/CD workflows and platform observability. This is a leadership role with direct impact on platform reliability and product delivery.

Key responsibilities

• Team leadership: Guide, support, and mentor a team of DevOps engineers, set priorities, and align efforts with product and engineering goals

• Infrastructure strategy: Define and evolve the architecture of our cloud infrastructure (OVH, OpenStack, bare-metal), ensuring it scales with product growth

• CI/CD ownership: Oversee the design and maintenance of CI/CD systems (GitLab CI, Bitbucket Pipelines), ensuring fast and stable deployment cycles

• Infrastructure as code: Lead adoption and maintenance of IaC tools (Terraform, Ansible) for consistent infrastructure provisioning

• System monitoring and reliability: Improve system observability using monitoring and logging tools (Zabbix, Prometheus, Loki) and lead incident response practices

• Security and compliance: Ensure infrastructure security and compliance with best practices, including DDoS mitigation and access control

• Collaboration and planning: Work closely with engineering leadership, developers, and QA to align infrastructure efforts with roadmap goals

• Automation: Drive automation initiatives to reduce manual work and improve system reliability

• Database operations: Oversee high-performance, low-latency database operations (PostgreSQL, MongoDB) and support data growth planning

• Environment management: Maintain and support multiple environments, ensuring consistency and reliability across dev, staging, and production setups

Expected qualifications

• Proven experience in a senior DevOps or DevOps lead role within a SaaS environment

• Strong Linux system administration experience for web applications

• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and a clear understanding of when and why to use it

• Solid understanding of virtualization vs. containerization

• Good knowledge of networking (L2, L4, L7) and tools like tcpdump, ngrep, and iproute2

• Experience supporting full application lifecycle (prod/dev/staging/local environments)

• Familiarity with version control (Git, Gitlab) and issue-tracking tools (Jira)

• CI/CD experience: building systems and designing workflows

• Strong experience with databases, including PostgreSQL, MongoDB

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience and understanding of best practices

• Experience installing and managing email servers

• Knowledge of monitoring (Zabbix, Prometheus) and log processing systems (Loki)

• Experience with config management tools (Ansible, Puppet, Chef, or Salt)

• Fluent in both English and Russian

Nice to have

• Background in telecom systems or messaging services (e.g. SMPP, Asterisk, Kamailio)

• Experience with PostgreSQL clustering

• Programming or scripting skills in Bash, Go

• Experience with Kubernetes in production at scale

• Familiarity with mitigating malicious traffic and managing DDoS protection

• Understanding of backend and frontend technologies such as PHP, Node.js, or Webpack