Team Lead (Linux Engineering)

This role is essential to the stability, growth, and continuous improvement of our Linux-based core infrastructure services. You will be responsible for leading the Linux Engineering team, combining hands-on technical expertise with people management and delivery oversight. The role plays a key part in ensuring operational excellence and driving architectural evolution, while actively collaborating with cross-functional teams such as Product Management, QA, DevOps, and Engineering to deliver high-impact infrastructure solutions.

You will:

• Actively contribute to architecture decisions, code reviews, and solving complex technical problems alongside your team.

• Set clear priorities, track progress, and step into operational challenges personally when needed.

• Develop and support people through coaching, feedback, regular performance reviews, and tailored growth planning.

• Evaluate and introduce technologies and tools, keep technical debt visible and under control, and ensure SLIs, SLOs, and service dependencies are properly defined and monitored.

• Develop detailed project plans and timelines, manage resources, and monitor progress within the team.

• Drive the assessment and implementation of technologies and tools in the team.

• Proactively identify and mitigate technical and project-related risks.

• Act as a change agent to support organizational changes and implement management decisions.

• Support the incident management process within the area of responsibility.

• Take a product approach to managing the team’s backlog.

What we expect from you:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related technical field.

• Relevant certifications in software architecture, agile methodologies (e.g., Scrum, SAFe), or cloud technologies (e.g., AWS, Azure) are considered as an advantage.

• Cloud Native / Linux Professional Institute / Red Hat certifications is a plus.

• Minimum 5+ years of experience working with Linux infrastructure, including 2+ years in a leadership or mentorship role.

• Track record of managing the performance and development of highly skilled engineers, including senior and lead positions.

• RHEL / Debian expertise.

• Strong Infrastructure-as-Code approach.

• Experience with containerisation/Kubernetes is an advantage.

• Strong Ansible playbooking.

• HA proxy setups.

• Nice to have experience with public CDN (CloudFlare as an example).

• Expertise and hands-on experience with core infrastructure services.

• Hands-on experience with Git, CI/CD pipelines.

What you can expect from us:

• Competitive and attractive compensation.

• Extensive learning opportunities, such as professional training and certifications, soft skills development, free English courses, and trading workshops.

• Health and life insurance for employees, spouses, and children, including vaccinations, tests, mental health care, and coverage for vision and dental care.

• Generous time off, including 21 days of annual leave and paid sick leave.

• Flight tickets, hotel or apartment accommodation for your first month, migration support, and legal help for you and your family for relocation to Cyprus.

• Education allowance for your children’s school and kindergarten fees.

• Access to our very own sports club with dedicated coaches, free Sanctum Club memberships for you and your spouse, corporate SUPs, jet skis, etc.

• A branded company car with a parking space near the office.

• Outstanding team-building experiences and Exness community gatherings.