DevOps/SRE Team Lead - Remote

Overview

As the DevOps/SRE Team Lead, you will lead a team of 5 DevOps/SRE engineers responsible for maintaining the infrastructure and tools that support the development of Parity’s Polkadot SDK. Your leadership and expertise will play a crucial role in advancing automation, enhancing efficiency, and optimising the performance of our entire technology stack.

In Short

• Lead a team of DevOps engineers, providing guidance, mentorship, and support
• Define and implement best practices for infrastructure automation, continuous delivery and cloud operations
• Provide strategic direction and contribute to the overall technology roadmap
• Drive the adoption of DevOps culture, practices, and tools across the organisation
• Collaborate with software development teams to streamline the build, deployment, and release processes
• Establish and maintain robust monitoring, alerting, and logging systems to ensure system reliability and availability
• Continuously evaluate and implement new technologies and tools to improve efficiency and productivity
• Liaise with stakeholders to gather requirements, prioritise projects, and communicate progress

Requirements

• Strong leadership and team management skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate others
• Strong understanding of containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes
• Experience with multiple cloud providers such as AWS, GCP, Azure, DigitalOcean, OVH, Scaleway, etc.
• Experience leveraging Infrastructure as Code (eg. Terraform, Ansible) and GitOps (eg. ArgoCD, FluxCD) tooling.
• Expertise in Linux-based systems
• Proven experience managing infrastructure teams, and overseeing large scalable, resilient and observable systems
• Strong communication, collaboration, and interpersonal skills

Benefits

• Competitive remuneration packages based on iterative market research, including tokens (where legally possible)
• “Future of work” environment that’s remote-first and self-initiating with flexible hours
• Team mates that are genuinely excited about their impact and projects
• Access to the brightest minds in this space to learn about Web3 and develop your skills and knowledge while on the job
• Becoming part of the wider ecosystem (career and networking opportunities)
• Team and company-wide retreats
• Work laptop
• Opportunity to relocate to Germany or Portugal (with visa sponsorship)