Senior Infrastructure / DevOps Engineer - REMOTE

Smartcat; Atlanta (GA); Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Smartcat in Atlanta, GA seeks a seasoned DevOps and SRE leader to manage DevOps and Infrastructure teams, ensuring availability, scalability, and reliability of staging and production environments. You will define and enforce best practices, strengthen CI/CD pipelines, implement IaC, and drive disaster recovery planning, while coaching team members.

This role blends hands-on cloud engineering with leadership across a fast-growing multinational IT business, offering remote-friendly work and

Qualifications

• 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.
• Ability to justify decisions using concrete metrics (data-driven).
• Strong hands-on experience with CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and deployment strategies.
• Experience developing and maintaining large scalable cloud-based applications (AWS, Azure, GCP).

Responsibilities

• Manage DevOps and Infrastructure teams to improve and maintain the technical infrastructure for development, deployment, and operation.
• Ensure availability, scalability and reliability of staging and production environments.
• Define and enforce best SRE and DevOps practices.
• Enforce rigorous CI/CD testing and reviews to minimize release errors.
• Implement resilient systems and disaster recovery plans.
• Strengthen hiring processes and provide coaching and career development for team members.

Skills

Team leadership

DevOps

SRE

CI/CD

IaC

Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Metrics-driven decisions

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Kubernetes

GitLab CI

Docker

Prometheus

Jaeger

MongoDB

Kafka

Job description

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. 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.

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. Enforce rigorous CI/CD testing and reviews to eliminate release errors.

Implement resilient systems and procedures for near-perfect product uptime, with effective disaster recovery plans.

Decrease Lead time by accelerating CI/CD pipelines and environmentsYou are expected to strengthen the hiring process, provide expert technical guidance, effective coaching, and career development for your team members3 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;~ 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;~ Possess practical experience in developing and maintaining large scalable applications in the cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP);

• You are expected to strengthen the hiring process, provide expert technical guidance, effective coaching, and career development for your team members
• 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
• 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
• Possess practical experience in developing and maintaining large scalable applications in the cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP)

Net Core, MongoDB, Vue 2/3, AWS, Kafka, ES, Gitlab CI, Prometheus, Victoria Metrics, Jaeger, k8sA 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. 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.

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. Our commitment to inclusion is steadfast, and we stand firmly against discrimination and harassment.