DevOps Team Lead to $9000

Who We Are:
Adaptiq is a technology hub specializing in building, scaling, and supporting R&D teams for high-end, fast-growing product companies in a wide range of industries.  

About the Product: 
The product is a security-aware platform built to help enterprises monitor, analyze, and optimize the digital experience across all employee devices and environments, whether on-prem, virtual, or cloud-based. It gives IT teams real-time visibility into system performance, application stability, and end-user experience, with the ability to automatically detect and remediate issues before they cause disruptions.

The product has seen strong traction globally, with significant year-over-year growth and increasing demand from large, distributed teams that need to secure and stabilize digital environments without adding complexity.

 

About the Role: 
Lead a small, highly skilled, globally distributed DevOps team running thousands of cloud workloads, with OpenSearch at the heart of the platform. This is a hands-on leadership role where you’ll shape priorities, accelerate automation, and strengthen reliability across a complex Azure ecosystem. You’ll take charge of a multi-region, high-throughput cloud infrastructure that powers enterprise-scale environments worldwide. Your impact will be tangible - driving performance, scalability, and operational excellence. 

Key Responsibilities: 

• Lead and mentor a diverse DevOps team, fostering a culture of innovation, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Oversee the deployment, operation, and scaling of large-scale Azure cloud platforms running more than 2000 cloud instances.
• Manage hundreds of OpenSearch clusters to ensure optimal performance and availability.
• Drive automation initiatives by developing and maintaining tools for monitoring, patching, deployment, and lifecycle management.
• Manage infrastructure security, compliance, and performance tuning across distributed environments.
• Lead troubleshooting efforts for complex production issues, including network, OS, and application-level challenges.
• Stay ahead of industry trends to recommend and implement innovative cloud solutions.

Required Competence and Skills:

• Proven leadership experience managing small DevOps or cloud engineering teams.
• Experience operating or supporting high-load, large-scale environments.
• Deep Azure Cloud  experience; AWS exposure is an advantage.
• Strong scripting and automation skills using Bash or Python.
• Minimum 3-5 years managing Elasticsearch/OpenSearch clusters and distributed systems.
• Experience with configuration management tools, preferably Ansible, or Puppet, Chef.
• Skilled in version control (Git, Azure DevOps, GitHub, GitLab).
• Excellent communication, organizational, and leadership skills with a proactive mindset
• Strong grasp of observability tools: Grafana, Prometheus, Splunk, Zabbix, etc.

• Experience operating production systems at scale - performance, security, and stability under pressure.

   

Nice to have:

• Experience supporting US time zones.

Why Us?

- We provide 20 days of vacation leave per calendar year (plus official national holidays of the country you are based in).

- We provide full accounting and legal support in all countries in which we operate.

- We utilize a fully remote work model with a powerful workstation and co-working space in case you need it.

- We offer a highly competitive package with yearly performance and compensation reviews.