Remote Senior DevOps & Infrastructure Lead

smartcatplatforminc; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work options

Job summary

SmartCat Platform Inc. is seeking a Lead DevOps and infrastructure leader to drive reliability, availability, and scalability of staging and production systems.

The role blends hands-on technical leadership with people management across a distributed product at scale. You will set and maintain site reliability practices, strengthen CI/CD pipelines, and guide secure engineering practices while collaborating with cross-region teams.

Qualifications

• At least three years leading a multinational IT team.
• At least five years in DevOps or SRE for high-throughput distributed products.
• Strong experience designing complex CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and deployment strategies.
• Experience building secure development environments and operating scalable cloud applications.
• Ability to use concrete metrics to justify decisions and collaborate with partner teams.
• Cloud experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.

Responsibilities

• Set and maintain practices for site reliability, infrastructure operations, and software delivery.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines and staging environments with targets of 99.9% availability for CI/CD and staging and 99.99% product availability.
• Strengthen release checks and reviews to reduce production issues from deployments.
• Build resilient systems and disaster recovery procedures, shortening lead times through faster pipelines and environments.
• Hire, guide, coach, and develop a distributed engineering team across regions and time zones.
• Use operational measures to guide decisions and work with partner teams.

Skills

Leadership

Cloud architecture

Metrics-driven decisions

Secure engineering practices

Tools

Kubernetes

GitLab CI

Prometheus

VictoriaMetrics

Jaeger

Kafka

MongoDB

Elasticsearch

.NET Core

Vue

Job description

SmartCat Platform Inc. is seeking a Lead DevOps and infrastructure leader to drive reliability, availability, and scalability of staging and production systems.

The role blends hands-on technical leadership with people management across a distributed product at scale. You will set and maintain site reliability practices, strengthen CI/CD pipelines, and guide secure engineering practices while collaborating with cross-region teams.