DevOps Tech Lead

**Our promise**:

- You choose how you'll work with us: fully remote, hybrid, or at our offices (Bucharest, Brașov);
- We support your career growth through continuous learning, coaching, and mentorship programs;
- We promise you a feedback-driven culture that inspires healthy communication;
- A friendly, professional, and supportive team is waiting for his new teammate;
- A bunch of people with common hobbies and interests (sailing, football, running marathons, tennis, music, etc) is ready to welcome you;
- A community driven by courage and creativity (we have our **beer** and our **band** that sings about us) is challenging you to have serious fun with us;
- We designed **benefits** that give you the power to create balance in life, on and off work.

**As a DevOps Tech Lead, you will**:

- Lead and mentor more junior DevOps engineers, providing technical guidance, support and assessment on skill development;
- Define and communicate the DevOps strategy, goals, and objectives in alignment with the organization's mission;
- Develop a roadmap for DevOps initiatives, setting priorities and milestones.
- Continuously assess and improve DevOps processes, workflows, and toolchains to optimize efficiency, quality, and speed of delivery;
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, including development, operations, security and quality assurance, to ensure seamless software delivery;
- Communicate project status, issues, and risks to stakeholders and senior management;
- Drive the adoption of automation tools and practices to streamline deployment, testing, and monitoring processes;
- Implement advanced monitoring and alerting solutions to proactively detect and address issues in production and development environments;
- Analyze performance metrics to identify areas for improvement;
- Collaborate with security teams to integrate security practices into the DevOps workflow, ensuring compliance with security standards and policies;
- Implement access control and vulnerability management measures;
- Occasionally work with the sales team to provide technical expertise and support during the sales process;
- Assist in responding to requests for proposals (RFPs) or requests for information (RFIs) by providing detailed technical information and solution recommendations.
- Lead / validate effort and timeline estimations;
- Occasionally assist in addressing critical incidents or perform planned maintenance outside of regular business hours.

**What about you?**
- At least 6 years of DevOps Engineer, with a strong focus on automating software delivery and infrastructure management - minimum 1 year of proven project implementation leadership experience
- Deep expertise in infrastructure as code (Terraform a must), CI/CD, containerization and orchestration (Docker/Kubernetes, experience with AKS a must, GKE/EKS - nice to have).
- Strong scripting and automation skills (e.g., Go, Python, Bash).
- Proficiency in Azure.
- Relevant experience with configuration management tools: Ansible, etc.
- Strong knowledge of Linux
- Servers/daemons: NginX, Apache, MySQL, MS SQL Server, etc.
- Networking for cloud environments
- Communication protocols : HTTP/SSL, Web sockets, TCP/UDP, FTP, SMTP, DHCP, DNS, BGP
- Experience in configuring monitoring & logging solutions (ELK/EFK stack, Prometheus/Grafana)
- Comfortable in delivering technical presentations to internal and external audiences
- Experience with presale calls and/or generating implementation effort estimations
- English (written and spoken)
- Relevant certifications:

- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- Certified Kubernetes Security Specialist (CKS)
- Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert

**If you feel this role is for you, let us get to know you better There are 2 steps left**:

- A get-to-know HR Discussion with your recruiter;
- A final tale with your future colleagues, from the Infrastructure & Platform Engineering Team.