[Hiring] Senior DevOps and Infrastructure Engineer @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.

Outcomes

• 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).

Tech Stack

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

Benefits

• A 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.
• Remote-friendly roles, giving you the flexibility to do your best work from where you thrive.
• Be part of an AI Native Organization: We are highly innovative, using AI across all areas of the organization.
• Innovating a $100 Billion industry: Smartcat is reshaping the multilingual content industry with an AI-powered platform.
• Join the rocketship to scale-up 10x and beyond together: We are growing at 130% YoY.

Smartcat Culture Code

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. We believe in welcoming everyone and fostering an inclusive environment where team members can be their authentic selves at work. Our commitment to inclusion is steadfast, and we stand firmly against discrimination and harassment.