[Hiring] Head of Devops @Sweed

Role Description

We’re looking for a Head of DevOps to own and transform the reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency of our infrastructure at scale.

What You Will Own

• Infrastructure Strategy & Execution
  • Define and evolve the infrastructure strategy aligned with business goals (scalability, reliability, cost-efficiency)
  • Translate strategy into a clear roadmap with predictable timelines and priorities
  • Drive execution across multiple teams while balancing speed and quality
• Team Leadership & Growth
  • Lead and develop a team of up to 6-8 people
  • Drive hiring, mentoring, and team capability growth
  • Build strong ownership, accountability, and engineering culture
• Operational Excellence
  • Improve incident management processes (on-call, escalation, postmortems)
  • Define clear ownership across systems and teams
  • Introduce reliability practices (SLOs, SLIs, error budgets)
  • Run disaster recovery drills and ensure system readiness
• DevOps Platform & Tooling
  • Evolve CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes
  • Standardize infrastructure using Terraform/Terragrunt
  • Improve observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK)

Key Projects You’ll Drive

• Infrastructure Transformation
  • Migrate Kubernetes clusters from Deckhouse to AWS EKS
  • Reduce dependency on external vendors and bring infrastructure fully in-house
• Reliability & High Availability
  • Migrate PostgreSQL from AWS RDS to CloudNativePG clusters
  • Implement cross-region failover and traffic switching
• Cost Optimization & Multi-Cloud
  • Migrate development clusters from AWS to OVH
  • Optimize infrastructure costs without sacrificing performance or reliability

Qualifications

• 3+ years of leadership experience managing DevOps/SRE teams (5+ engineers)
• Strong hands-on background in cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and automation
• Experience building and scaling infrastructure in high-load production environments
• Solid understanding of reliability engineering and incident management
• Experience with cost optimization and infrastructure efficiency
• Ability to operate in a fast-paced, evolving environment
• English level B2+

What Else Matters

• Proactivity – you take ownership and drive improvements
• Critical thinking – you look beyond immediate solutions
• Adaptability – you’re comfortable with change and ambiguity

Benefits

• Salary in USD (B2B contract with a US company)
• Fully remote setup
• Flexible working hours (core overlap required)
• 20 paid vacation days
• 12 public holidays
• 3 sick days
• Medical insurance after probation
• Equipment reimbursement

Hiring Process

• Recruiter Call (up to 1 hour)
• Technical Interview (1.5 hours)
• Roundtable with Heads (1 hour)
• Final Interview with CEO (1 hour)