Engineering Manager (Infrastructure / DevOps)

This role combines strong people management with technical leadership. You will drive team development, improve engineering processes, and contribute to architectural decisions in a high-load, distributed environment.
 

Key responsibilities:

People Management:

• Lead and manage a team of DevOps and Systems Engineers
• Manage Tech/Team Leads (4–6 reports)
• Hire, onboard, develop, and retain engineers
• Conduct performance reviews and support career growth
• Build a strong engineering culture with high ownership
• Handle team dynamics, motivation, and conflict resolution
  
  Delivery & Process:
• Own and prioritize the infrastructure backlog and roadmap
• Ensure timely and high-quality delivery of infrastructure initiatives
• Improve engineering and operational processes (CI/CD, release flow, change management)
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams
• Manage team capacity and workload distribution
• Contribute to architecture decisions and ensure high-quality implementation
• Drive infrastructure evolution focusing on scalability, reliability, and performance
• Promote best practices (IaC, GitOps, observability)
• Maintain a high technical bar across the team
• Mentor and develop Tech Leads and Senior Engineers
  
  Reliability & Operations:
• Own incident management processes and postmortems
• Improve monitoring, alerting, and observability
• Increase system resilience and fault tolerance
  
  Cost & Efficiency:
• Optimize infrastructure costs
• Ensure efficient resource utilization

Tech Stack
Container orchestration: Kubernetes
Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Pulumi
Cloud: Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Cloudflare
Databases: PostgreSQL, ClickHouse, MongoDB, Redis
Messaging: Kafka
Observability: Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, Grafana, ELK
CI/CD: GitLab CI
Security: HashiCorp Vault
Configuration Management: SaltStack

Required Experience:

Management Experience

• Experience managing engineering teams through Tech/Team Leads (4–6+ reports)
• Proven track record in hiring, evaluating, and developing engineers
• Strong stakeholder management and prioritization skills
• Experience driving delivery and execution

Technical Background

• 5+ years of experience in infrastructure teams, including 3+ years in a managerial role
• Solid understanding of distributed and high-load systems
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform or similar)
• Understanding of observability and incident management practices

Modern Engineering Practices

• Experience using AI tools (e.g., Claude Code, Codex, etc.)
• Active use of AI in engineering and management workflows (automation, analysis, productivity improvement)

Process & Thinking

• Experience building and improving engineering processes
• Strong systems thinking and decision-making under uncertainty
• Ability to balance technical depth with management responsibilities (~20/80)

Communication

• English level: B1+ or higher
   

Nice to have:

• Experience with multi-cloud or hybrid infrastructure
• Background in high-load product environments