DevOps Tech Lead (Azure)
Role Overview
We are looking for a DevOps Tech Lead to take ownership of the company’s infrastructure practice, combining technical leadership, team management, and hands-on expertise.
You will work closely with the CTO and engineering leadership to coordinate infrastructure activities, establish effective processes, drive infrastructure modernization, and ensure reliable delivery across environments. The role is primarily focused on management and coordination, while still requiring enough technical depth to challenge decisions, support the team, and contribute hands-on when needed.
Role Responsibilities
- Lead and coordinate DevOps/SRE/Infrastructure activities and teams across multiple products and environments.
- Organize and prioritize the team’s work, ensuring clear ownership, effective collaboration, and timely delivery.
- Work closely with the CTO and engineering leads to define priorities, make infrastructure decisions, and drive initiatives to completion.
- Build and improve DevOps processes, team practices, documentation, runbooks, and knowledge-sharing.
- Take ownership of the company’s Azure infrastructure, its reliability, security, performance, and continuous improvement.
- Drive infrastructure modernization, automation, and technical debt reduction.
- Coordinate improvements across CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, monitoring, observability, security, and incident response.
- Provide technical guidance and challenge infrastructure decisions when needed, helping the team make effective technical choices.
- Support and develop DevOps/SRE engineers, promote knowledge sharing, and help build a sustainable infrastructure practice.
- Identify infrastructure risks, inefficiencies, and improvement opportunities and turn them into actionable initiatives.
- Balance business priorities, technical risks, infrastructure costs, and team capacity when making decisions.
- Remain hands-on when required, stepping into technical tasks or complex infrastructure issues when the situation calls for it.
- Take ownership of infrastructure-related problems from identification through implementation and ensure that agreed solutions are actually delivered.
Role Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in technical/team management, combined with a strong background in DevOps, SRE, Cloud Infrastructure, or a related technical field.
- Proven experience managing or coordinating DevOps/SRE/Infrastructure teams.
- Strong hands-on experience with Microsoft Azure.
- Solid experience with CI/CD, preferably GitHub Actions and/or Jenkins.
- Strong knowledge of Terraform / Infrastructure as Code.
- Experience with monitoring and observability, such as Grafana or similar tools.
- Experience with infrastructure security, secrets management, and access control.
- Experience working with multi-tenant SaaS environments.
- Experience with infrastructure modernization, technical debt reduction, automation, and process optimization.
- Ability to understand complex technical issues, challenge technical decisions, and provide practical guidance to engineers.
- Ability and willingness to remain hands-on when necessary, despite the management-focused nature of the role.
- Strong experience building or improving technical processes and team practices, especially in environments where processes need to be established or significantly improved.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills, including the ability to work directly with CTO-level stakeholders and engineering leadership.
- Strong ownership, accountability, proactive problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
- Ability to explain technical trade-offs in terms of cost, risk, priorities, and business impact.
- Strong communication skills: English B2+
Daily schedule
Our company supports work-life balance and allows you to tailor your schedule, which consists of 8 working hours and time for lunch. Shared business hours for most of our teams are 12 pm - 7 pm Kyiv time.
Interview Process
- Recruiter Intro Call (45 min)
- Technical Interview (up to 90 min)
- Project Manager Interview (30 min)
- Client Interview with CTO (60 min)
Looking forward to having a mutually interesting conversation with you! 😉