Senior DevOps and Infrastructure Engineer

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

Role overview

Lead DevOps and infrastructure teams responsible for the reliability, availability, and scalability of staging and production systems. The role combines hands‑on technical leadership with people management, improving delivery pipelines and secure engineering practices while supporting a distributed product at scale.

Responsibilities

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

Requirements

• At least three years leading a team in a fast‑growing, multinational IT organization.
• At least five years in DevOps or SRE supporting high‑throughput distributed products.
• Strong practical 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 build effective working agreements with partner teams.
• Cloud experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.

Nice to have

Relevant tools and systems listed include Kubernetes, GitLab CI, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Jaeger, Kafka, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, .NET Core, and Vue.

Benefits and work setup

The organization describes a globally distributed team and says most roles support remote work. It also highlights collaboration across locations and an inclusive culture.