[Hiring] Manager of Infrastructure and DevOps @Smartcat

Role Description

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.

• Zero Incorrect Release-Related Production Issues:
  • Enforce rigorous CI/CD testing and reviews to eliminate release errors.
• CI/CD and Staging Servers Availability at 99.9%:
  • Maintain robust staging infrastructure with minimal downtime, ensuring a 99.9% uptime.
• Product Availability at 99.99%:
  • Implement resilient systems and procedures for near-perfect product uptime, with effective disaster recovery plans.
• Decrease Lead time by accelerating CI/CD pipelines and environments.
• Build and manage a team of A+ players within the engineering organization across different regions and time zones.
• Strengthen the hiring process, provide expert technical guidance, effective coaching, and career development for your team members.

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 (Requests Per Second) distributed products.
• Utilize a data-driven approach; ability to justify decisions using concrete metrics.
• Can build relationships with neighboring teams, initiate and adhere to agreements, and act as an interface between your team and the environment.
• 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.
• Experience in implementing secure development environments.
• Practical experience in developing and maintaining large scalable applications in the cloud (AWS, Azure, GCP).

Requirements

• Tech Stack:
  • .Net Core
  • MongoDB
  • Vue 2/3
  • AWS
  • Kafka
  • ES
  • Gitlab CI
  • Prometheus
  • Victoria Metrics
  • Jaeger
  • k8s

Benefits

• A global, connected team working together through a hub-and-spoke model.
• Most roles are remote-friendly, providing flexibility to work from where you thrive.
• Highly innovative organization using AI across all areas to accelerate decision-making.
• Opportunity to shape how AI transforms the workplace.
• Reshaping the $100B multilingual content industry with an AI-powered platform.
• Join a team growing at 130% YoY, transitioning from a post-Series C startup to exceeding $100M in ARR and $1B in valuation.

Company Description

Smartcat is building the future of work, where human expertise meets digital teammates to drive productivity gains for the world’s leading enterprises. Our platform combines generative AI, human-in-the-loop workflows, and a living Enterprise Skill Graph that continuously learns and improves.

• Over 1,000 companies, including 20% of the Fortune 500, rely on Smartcat.
• Founded in 2016 to help global enterprises create and manage their multilingual content.
• Smartcat is backed by leading VC firms focusing on SaaS, marketplaces, and AI.
• Growing at 150% YoY, well-funded and capital efficient.