via Lever · 11 September 2026 ·8 days ago

Head of Infrastructure and DevOps

jobgether
UK Full-time
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Accountabilities:

  • Lead DevOps and Infrastructure teams responsible for the development, deployment, and operation of critical technical infrastructure.

  • Ensure high availability, scalability, reliability, and resilience across staging and production environments.

  • Establish and enforce SRE and DevOps best practices to improve operational performance and engineering quality.

  • Drive toward zero incorrect release-related production issues through rigorous CI/CD testing, automation, and review processes.

  • Maintain 99.9% availability for CI/CD and staging infrastructure through resilient systems, monitoring, and proactive reliability practices.

  • Drive toward 99.99% product availability by implementing resilient architectures, operational procedures, and effective disaster recovery strategies.

  • Accelerate engineering delivery by reducing lead times across CI/CD pipelines and development environments.

  • Design, build, and continuously improve complex CI/CD pipelines, deployment strategies, and Infrastructure as Code practices.

  • Strengthen secure development environments and ensure infrastructure and deployment processes follow appropriate security standards.

  • Lead and develop a high-performing infrastructure organization across multiple regions and time zones.

  • Strengthen hiring processes and build a team of highly capable engineers aligned with organizational goals.

  • Provide technical leadership, coaching, feedback, and career development to team members.

  • Build strong relationships with neighboring engineering teams and act as an effective interface between Infrastructure and the wider organization.

  • Use operational and engineering metrics to evaluate performance, identify opportunities, and justify technical decisions.

Requirements


  • At least 3 years of experience leading engineering or infrastructure teams within a fast-growing multinational technology organization.

  • At least 5 years of experience in DevOps and Site Reliability Engineering, supporting high-RPS distributed products.

  • Strong hands-on expertise in DevOps practices, particularly complex CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, and modern deployment strategies.

  • Proven experience designing, deploying, and maintaining large-scale, highly available applications in public cloud environments such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.

  • Practical experience building secure development and deployment environments.

  • Strong understanding of SRE principles, reliability engineering, scalability, observability, and production operations.

  • Data-driven approach to engineering leadership, with the ability to use concrete metrics to assess performance and support technical decisions.

  • Strong relationship-building and communication skills, with the ability to establish effective agreements and collaborate across engineering functions.

  • Demonstrated ability to provide technical guidance while also developing and mentoring high-performing teams.

  • Comfortable operating across distributed teams, multiple regions, and different time zones.

  • Experience with technologies such as Kubernetes, GitLab CI, AWS, Kafka, MongoDB, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Jaeger, .NET Core, or Vue.js is valuable.
Benefits:
  • Remote position.

  • Opportunity to lead Infrastructure and DevOps teams in a rapidly scaling technology organization.

  • Global, distributed working environment with colleagues across multiple countries and time zones.

  • Significant ownership over infrastructure strategy, reliability, scalability, and engineering practices.

  • Opportunity to shape team growth through hiring, coaching, technical leadership, and career development.

  • Exposure to modern cloud, Kubernetes, CI/CD, observability, and distributed systems technologies.

  • Opportunity to contribute to an AI-native technology environment and the evolution of highly scalable products.

  • Inclusive, collaborative culture focused on ownership, high performance, and meaningful impact.

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