Head of Infrastructure

Engineering
- Design infrastructure for high-load distributed systems, from bare-metal environments to cloud-based Kubernetes.
- Own the platform’s reliability, performance, resilience, and security.
- Troubleshoot bottlenecks and production incidents across networking, Kubernetes, messaging systems, and data infrastructure.
- Build and execute infrastructure roadmaps covering migrations, high availability, monitoring, security, and CI/CD.
- Drive Kubernetes adoption across all environments, including production.
- Build and maintain fully operational failover and disaster recovery capabilities — not just theoretical designs.
- Write and review Infrastructure as Code.

Leadership
- Own the entire infrastructure area, including priorities, capacity planning, on-call processes, and collaboration with Engineering and Product/Project Management.
- Plan and implement infrastructure changes in close collaboration with development teams.
- Manage infrastructure projects end-to-end: break down initiatives, track progress, and remove blockers.
- Own technical hiring: candidate screening, technical interviews, and final hire/no-hire recommendations.
- Develop technical leads and empower them to make decisions independently without escalating every issue to the CIO.
- Manage infrastructure costs and capacity.

Technology Stack
- Linux / Virtualization: Debian/Ubuntu, Proxmox VE, QEMU/KVM, libvirt
- Networking: routing, VPN, BGP, DNS, load balancing, high availability, Cloudflare, Fastly
- Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible
- Containers & Orchestration: Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, ArgoCD, GitLab CI
- Monitoring & Logging: Grafana, Prometheus, VictoriaMetrics, ELK, Opsgenie, SigNoz
- Databases & Messaging: PostgreSQL, MongoDB, ClickHouse, Redis/Valkey, Kafka, RabbitMQ
- Scripting / Tooling: Bash, Python, Golang
- Cloud: AWS, GCP
- Practices: GitOps, DevOps, SRE