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SmartcatSenior DevOps and Infrastructure Engineer
Smartcat is hiring a Senior DevOps and Infrastructure Engineer to lead the company's DevOps and infrastructure teams. The person in this role keeps the systems that…
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Smartcat is hiring a Senior DevOps and Infrastructure Engineer to lead the company's DevOps and infrastructure teams. The person in this role keeps the systems that build, deploy, and run Smartcat's platform available, scalable, and reliable across staging and production. The role also defines and enforces DevOps and SRE practices, and includes building and managing an engineering team spread across regions and time zones. The posting sets three reliability goals:…
Job Description
Smartcat is hiring a Senior DevOps and Infrastructure Engineer to lead the company's DevOps and infrastructure teams. The person in this role keeps the systems that build, deploy, and run Smartcat's platform available, scalable, and reliable across staging and production. The role also defines and enforces DevOps and SRE practices, and includes building and managing an engineering team spread across regions and time zones.
The posting sets three reliability goals: no release errors reaching production, 99.9% uptime for CI/CD and staging servers, and 99.99% availability for the product with disaster recovery plans in place. It also asks for shorter lead times through faster pipelines and environments. Reaching these goals involves stricter CI/CD testing and review, resilient system design, and stronger hiring, coaching, and career development for the team.
Smartcat describes its platform as an AI-powered system for creating, translating, and localizing content at enterprise scale. The company reports a distributed team of more than 200 people across more than 30 countries, with most roles remote-friendly and a collaborative culture that values ownership and speed. The stack named in the posting includes .NET Core, MongoDB, Vue, Kubernetes, Jaeger, VictoriaMetrics, Prometheus, GitLab CI, Kafka, ES, and AWS.
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow DevOps and infrastructure staff working in several time zones
- Keep staging and production environments available, scalable, and reliable
- Define and enforce SRE and DevOps best practices
- Strengthen CI/CD testing and review processes to prevent release errors
- Speed up pipelines and environments to reduce lead time
- Design resilient systems and disaster recovery plans to keep the product highly available
- Strengthen the hiring process and provide technical guidance, coaching, and career development
Requirements
- Three years leading a team at a multinational IT company that is growing quickly
- Five years in DevOps and SRE, keeping distributed products with heavy request loads running
- A data-driven approach, with decisions justified by concrete metrics
- Able to build relationships with neighboring teams and represent your team in shared agreements
- Strong hands-on DevOps experience in a leading role, including complex CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and varied deployment strategies
- Experience implementing secure development environments
- Hands-on background running large cloud-hosted applications on AWS, Azure, or GCP
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Is this role remote?
The posting lists the role as remote. Smartcat says most of its roles are remote-friendly.
Is the position full-time?
Yes. The posting lists it as a full-time role.
What experience does the posting ask for?
It asks for three years leading a team at a multinational IT company that is growing fast, plus five years in DevOps and SRE.
What is the salary?
The posting does not specify a salary.
Which technologies are mentioned?
The posting lists AWS, Kafka, Kubernetes, GitLab CI, Prometheus, Jaeger, MongoDB, and Vue among its technology stack.
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