Head of Infrastructure

About this role

Engineering

• Design infrastructure for high-load distributed systems, from bare-metal environments to cloud-based Kubernetes.

• Own the platform’s reliability, performance, resilience, and security.

• Troubleshoot bottlenecks and production incidents across networking, Kubernetes, messaging systems, and data infrastructure.

• Build and execute infrastructure roadmaps covering migrations, high availability, monitoring, security, and CI/CD.

• Drive Kubernetes adoption across all environments, including production.

• Build and maintain fully operational failover and disaster recovery capabilities — not just theoretical designs.

• Write and review Infrastructure as Code.
Leadership

• Own the entire infrastructure area, including priorities, capacity planning, on-call processes, and collaboration with Engineering and Product/Project Management.

• Plan and implement infrastructure changes in close collaboration with development teams.

• Manage infrastructure projects end-to-end: break down initiatives, track progress, and remove blockers.

• Own technical hiring: candidate screening, technical interviews, and final hire/no-hire recommendations.

• Develop technical leads and empower them to make decisions independently without escalating every issue to the CIO.

• Manage infrastructure costs and capacity.
Technology Stack

• Linux / Virtualization: Debian/Ubuntu, Proxmox VE, QEMU/KVM, libvirt

• Networking: routing, VPN, BGP, DNS, load balancing, high availability, Cloudflare, Fastly

• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible

• Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, GitLab CI

• Monitoring & Logging: Grafana, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, ELK, Opsgenie, SigNoz

• Databases & Messaging: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, ClickHouse, Redis/Valkey, Kafka, RabbitMQ

• Scripting / Tooling: Bash, Python, Golang

• Cloud: AWS, GCP

• Practices: GitOps, DevOps, SRE
Requirements

Engineer — Principal / Staff+ Level

• Strong hands-on experience with high-load systems, including messaging queues, proxies, databases, networking, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code.

• Ability to independently troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues.

• Strong experience with both bare-metal and cloud infrastructure, without being tied to a single technology stack.

• Ability to design infrastructure for distributed systems and clearly explain and justify architectural decisions.

• Hands-on experience leading and resolving production incidents.

• Strong systems thinking: you understand the broader consequences of technical decisions and know how to simplify complex systems.
Leader — Head Level

• 5+ years of experience as a Head or Team Lead in a product company.

• Proven ownership of people management, prioritization, hiring, and delivery.

• Strong hiring skills: you can identify and attract strong engineers and confidently make hire/no-hire decisions.

• Proven ability to develop technical leads while maintaining strong technical oversight.

• Strong ownership mindset: you focus on solving problems rather than assigning blame.

• Ability to define the vision and direction for your area and drive it forward without waiting for tasks or instructions from senior management.
Benefits

• 20 vacation days and 5 family days yearly

• Flexible start to the workday

• Support from a professional corporate coach and psychologist

• Regular internal and external activities, workshops, trips, and corporate events

• Access to our internal knowledge base, meetups, and team-building activities

• Ongoing training in new technologies and continuous professional development support