Lead Platform/DevOps Engineer

The company provides financial institutions, governments, and regulators with blockchain intelligence and compliance solutions. The headquarters are in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, with main offices in Ukraine, London, and the USA.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Led and mentored a team of DevOps engineers while remaining hands-on with technical tasks, providing technical guidance and career development support.

• Plan, assign, and review tasks to ensure project deadlines and deliverables are met.

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to align DevOps strategies with business objectives.

• Establish and maintain DevOps best practices and ensure their adoption across the team.

• Oversee and participate in managing and building hybrid infrastructure projects.

• Configure and maintain internal services.

• Build and maintain monitoring systems to ensure system reliability.

• Drive the deployment of bare-metal environments and cloud-based solutions.

• Lead performance and integration testing efforts.

• Handle escalations for critical issues and ensure timely resolutions

Qualifications:

• Continuous experience in DevOps/IT system administration for more than 5 years and a minimum of 2 years of experience in a DevOps leadership role.
• In-depth knowledge and practical experience with deployment and administration of Unix/Linux servers (e.g., Debian/Ubuntu, RHEL/Centos).
• Strong understanding of common IT security practices.
• Experience in building and maintaining hybrid infrastructures.
• Expertise in implementing CI/CD pipelines.
• Hands-on experience with configuration management tools (e.g., Ansible, SaltStack).
• Proficiency with virtualisation and containerisation tools.
• Ability to perform root cause analysis for production errors.
• Familiarity with ISO 27001 requirements and CIS benchmarks.
• Working knowledge of databases and clustering (SQL, NoSQL).
• Proficiency in cloud-based DevOps practices, specifically with Terraform, Kubernetes (k8s), Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and Policy as Code (PaC).
• Strong understanding of Git workflows.
• Experience with log management tools.
• Advanced skills in scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python, Go).
• Expertise in application and infrastructure monitoring in production environments.
• Good understanding of software development processes, including collaboration with SW development and QA teams.
• Advanced networking knowledge, including building and supporting local/global networks, ACLs, firewalls, VPN tunnels, and routing.
• Availability to be on call 24/7 (only in case of a disaster).

Would be a plus:

• Experience with AWS/GCP stack.
• Familiarity with Microsoft 365 stack.
• Deep expertise with Kubernetes.

Conditions

• 100% remote. B2B contract.
• Salary range: 8000 -90000 USD per month.