Infrastructure Lead

🔹 Lead stability, scalability, and operational excellence at scale.

Softsich is a young and ambitious international product tech company that develops scalable B2B digital platforms. We’re on the lookout for an experienced Infrastructure Lead who’s ready to grow with us and shape high-load, data-driven solutions used by international partners.

 

Your key responsibilities will include:

– Owning and managing cloud infrastructure across production, staging, and development environments.
– Designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
– Ensuring production stability, high availability, and scalability of all platform services.
– Configuring and maintaining monitoring, alerting, and observability tooling.
– Leading incident response for infrastructure-related issues and driving post-incident reviews.
– Planning and executing capacity management to support platform growth.
– Optimizing infrastructure costs: tracking spend, eliminating waste, right-sizing resources.
– Maintaining disaster recovery procedures, runbooks, and on-call readiness.
– Coordinating with development teams on infrastructure requirements and service dependencies.
– Managing developer tooling and internal platform services to support engineering productivity.
– Ensuring security best practices and compliance requirements across infrastructure.
– Continuously improving deployment processes, reliability, and operational efficiency.
– Leading, mentoring, and growing a team of infrastructure engineers.
– Validating and challenging technical estimates to ensure realistic commitments and early risk visibility.
– Reviewing team output for quality, completeness, and alignment with technical standards.

It’s a match if you have:

– 5+ years of experience in infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering roles, including at least 2 years in a lead or senior position.
– Strong hands-on experience with AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, ECS/EKS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudFront, Route53, ElastiCache, SQS/SNS).
– Experience with AWS Organizations (multi-account management, SCPs, consolidated billing).
– Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Ansible).
– Deep knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes (autoscaling, network policies, cluster management).
– Experience with Helm, ArgoCD (GitOps workflows), GitLab CI or GitHub Actions.
– Strong monitoring expertise (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, PagerDuty, JSM).
– Experience with Cloudflare (CDN, WAF, DDoS mitigation, Zero Trust).
– Solid networking fundamentals (DNS, ALB/NLB, VPN, VPC peering, firewalls).
– Strong security practices (IAM, Secrets Manager/Vault, CSPM, patch management, compliance readiness).
– Experience with high-load systems, load testing (k6, Locust, Gatling), capacity planning.
– Experience with databases (RDS PostgreSQL/MySQL, DocumentDB, Redshift, Redis/ElastiCache, Kafka).
– Strong Linux administration and scripting skills (Bash, Python).
– Proven ability to mentor engineers and validate technical estimates.
– Strong communication skills and ability to proactively surface risks.

Nice to have:

– Experience in regulated or high-availability environments.

What we offer:

– Flexible schedule and remote format or offices in Warsaw.
– 24 paid vacation days, sick leaves, and health insurance (UA-based, other locations in progress).
– A supportive, friendly team where knowledge-sharing is part of the culture.
– Coverage for professional events and learning.
– Birthday greetings, team buildings, and warm human connection beyond work.
– Zero joules of energy to the aggressor state, its affiliated businesses, or partners.

You see infrastructure not as a support function, but as a strategic driver of business stability and growth?
Send over your CV now — we’d love to get to know you better!