Head of Infrastructure

Responsibilities

• Own the platform’s reliability, performance, resilience, and security.
• Troubleshoot bottlenecks and production incidents across networking, Kubernetes, messaging systems, and data infrastructure.
• Build and execute infrastructure roadmaps covering migrations, high availability, monitoring, security, and CI/CD.
• Drive Kubernetes adoption across all environments, including production.
• Build and maintain fully operational failover and disaster recovery capabilities.
• Write and review Infrastructure as Code.
• Plan and implement infrastructure changes in close collaboration with development teams.
• Manage infrastructure projects end-to-end: break down initiatives, track progress, and remove blockers.
• Own technical hiring: candidate screening, technical interviews, and final hire/no-hire recommendations.
• Develop technical leads and empower them to make decisions independently.
• Manage infrastructure costs and capacity.

Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience with high-load systems, including messaging queues, proxies, databases, networking, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Ability to independently troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues.
• Strong experience with both bare-metal and cloud infrastructure.
• Ability to design infrastructure for distributed systems and clearly explain and justify architectural decisions.
• Hands-on experience leading and resolving production incidents.
• Strong systems thinking.
• 5+ years of experience as a Head or Team Lead in a product company.
• Proven ownership of people management, prioritization, hiring, and delivery.
• Strong hiring skills.
• Proven ability to develop technical leads while maintaining strong technical oversight.
• Strong ownership mindset.
• Ability to define the vision and direction for your area.

Benefits

• 20 vacation days and 5 family days yearly.
• Flexible start to the workday.
• Support from a professional corporate coach and psychologist.
• Regular internal and external activities, workshops, trips, and corporate events.
• Access to our internal knowledge base, meetups, and team-building activities.
• Ongoing training in new technologies and continuous professional development support.