Head of Infrastructure and DevOps

Smartcat
Portugal
Workplace: RemoteFull timeFunction: DevOps, Cloud & InfrastructureSkills: ["Data-driven decision-making","Relationship building","Coaching","Technical guidance","Coaching and career development"]

Lead Smartcat’s DevOps and Infrastructure organization to ensure highly reliable staging and production environments. Own SRE/DevOps best practices, enforce rigorous CI/CD testing to prevent release issues, and drive near-perfect uptime through resilient systems and disaster recovery. Accelerate pipeline and environment lead times, and build and coach a distributed, high-performing team across regions. Use data-driven decisions and implement secure, scalable cloud deployments on AWS, Azure, or GCP.

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Smartcat
Smartcat
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Head of Infrastructure and DevOps

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Job Summary

Lead Smartcat’s DevOps and Infrastructure organization to ensure highly reliable staging and production environments. Own SRE/DevOps best practices, enforce rigorous CI/CD testing to prevent release issues, and drive near-perfect uptime through resilient systems and disaster recovery. Accelerate pipeline and environment lead times, and build and coach a distributed, high-performing team across regions. Use data-driven decisions and implement secure, scalable cloud deployments on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Location: Portugal
Workplace: Remote
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: DevOps, Cloud & Infrastructure
Seniority: Director level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Manage DevOps and Infrastructure teams to support development, deployment, and operations.
  • •Ensure staging/production availability, scalability, and reliability; define and enforce SRE/DevOps practices.
  • •Enforce rigorous CI/CD testing and reviews to eliminate release-related production issues.
  • •Maintain staging CI/CD and server availability at 99.9% and drive product availability at 99.99%, including disaster recovery.
  • •Accelerate CI/CD pipeline and environment lead times; build and develop an A+ team across regions with coaching and career growth.

Key Requirements

  • •3+ years leading a team in a fast-growing multinational IT business.
  • •5+ years of DevOps and SRE experience maintaining high-RPS distributed products.
  • •Strong hands-on DevOps experience building complex CI/CD pipelines, implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and deployment strategies.
  • •Experience implementing secure development environments.
  • •Practical experience building and operating large scalable cloud applications (AWS, Azure, GCP).
Experience:ITCloudSREDevOps
Skills:Data-driven decision-makingRelationship buildingCoachingTechnical guidanceCoaching and career development
Languages:English
Tech Stack:.Net CoreMongoDBVue 2Vue 3AWSAzureGCPKafkaElasticsearchGitLab CIPrometheusVictoria MetricsJaegerKubernetesCI/CDIaCSRE

Company Brief

Smartcat
Provides a cloud-based translation and localization platform that combines CAT tools, workflow automation, vendor marketplace, and payments to help enterprises manage multilingual content and scale translation operations efficiently.
Industry: Enterprise Software
Company Size: Large (251 to 1,000 employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Headquarters: New York, United States
Founded: 2016
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