Infrastructure Operations Lead (DevOps & SRE)

We are looking for a strategic Infrastructure Operations Lead to oversee and evolve our infrastructure capabilities by leading both an established DevOps team and a newly formed SRE function. In this role, you will drive operational excellence across a Platform-as-a-Service architecture supporting 30+ products within a high-load blockchain and fintech environment. You will operate in a global engineering organization of 100+ specialists, shaping reliability, scalability, and efficiency at platform level.

Tech Environment
Bare-metal Kubernetes, Go, PostgreSQL, Kafka, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Grafana, ELK stack.

Responsibilities

Team Leadership

• Lead the existing DevOps team and build the SRE team from scratch

• Hire, onboard, and integrate SRE engineers into the current infrastructure organization

• Drive professional development, performance growth, and skill planning across both teams

Infrastructure Strategy & Reliability

• Develop and execute infrastructure strategy supporting 30+ products

• Ensure 99.9%+ uptime through strong DevOps–SRE collaboration

• Define and implement unified processes across DevOps and SRE

• Own incident management leadership and cross-team response coordination

Platform Performance & Scalability

• Lead performance optimization through automation and observability practices

• Oversee capacity planning to support business growth

• Define infrastructure roadmap for scaling toward 40+ products

Operational Efficiency

• Execute cost-optimization initiatives targeting 20–30% savings

• Drive vendor evaluation, technical decision-making, and contract negotiations

• Oversee platform reliability standards (DevOps scope)

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Align infrastructure priorities with Engineering, Finance, Compliance, C-level stakeholders, and Support teams

• Participate in strategic technology evaluation and adoption decisions

Requirements

Core Experience

• 5+ years in infrastructure engineering/operations

• 3+ years leading engineering teams in FinTech

• Proven experience managing DevOps or platform engineering teams

• Strong understanding of SRE principles and their practical implementation

• Production-level Kubernetes expertise (bare-metal experience is essential)

Leadership & Strategy

• Experience integrating existing and newly built teams into one structure

• Background in infrastructure strategy for enterprise-scale environments

• Hands-on incident leadership in high-stakes production systems

• Practical FinOps / cost optimization experience

Technical & Operational Skills

• Vendor technical evaluation and negotiation experience

• Strong understanding of performance optimization (DB + application layers)

• Cross-functional stakeholder management skills

• Professional English for international collaboration

Nice to Have

• Leadership in high-load systems (blockchain or financial platforms)

• IaC ecosystem knowledge (Terraform, Ansible)

• Observability platforms experience (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)

What we offer

• Remote-first company - work from anywhere in the world

• Fully flexible working hours

• Extended time off: 20 paid vacation days + 12 bonus days per year

• 100% paid sick leave

• Paid English lessons (iTalki)

• Professional growth support (courses, certifications, training programs)

• Real impact and ownership in fintech & crypto projects

• Corporate benefits: EMCD product discounts and mining infrastructure access

• Payment in USDT

• Employment via Service Agreement