IT Infrastructure & DevOps Lead

We run a hybrid stack across cloud and on-prem: Kubernetes, containers, and a handful of performance-critical services on bare metal. We are looking for a hands-on DevOps/Platform Lead to own the developer platform and deployment experience - building scalable, reliable, and automated infrastructure that accelerates product teams.

What you will do:

• Lead & grow the team: Coach 3-5 DevOps/Platform engineers; set standards, run 1:1s, drive roadmaps and delivery.
• Own the platform: Design, operate, and evolve Kubernetes-based environments (multi-cluster, multi-region) across cloud + on-prem.
• IaC & GitOps: Standardize with Terraform/Helm and GitOps (Argo CD/Flux). Create reusable modules, blueprints, and golden paths.
• CI/CD at scale: Build fast, reliable pipelines (Build/Test/Deploy), artifact registries, environment promotions, and preview environments.
• Observability: Ensure first-class monitoring, logging, and tracing (Prometheus/Grafana/ELK/OTel); tighten feedback loops for engineers.
• Networking for hybrid: Own service connectivity-ingress, LBs, CNI, east-west traffic, API gateways, and secure cloud on-prem peering.
• Stateful & storage: Operate CSI-backed storage, object/block integrations, and tune performance for stateful workloads where needed.
• Performance & scalability: Capacity planning, autoscaling strategies (HPA/VPA/KEDA), rollout strategies (blue/green, canary).
• Developer experience: Ship internal self-service (IDP) portals, templates, and CLIs so teams can provision infra safely and quickly.
• Tooling & modernization: Evaluate and introduce tools that improve reliability, speed, or cost-measure impact and adopt pragmatically.

Must-have experience:

• 7-10 years in DevOps/Platform/SRE roles
• Deep hands-on with Kubernetes (cluster lifecycle, upgrades, multi-cluster patterns) and containers.
• Strong IaC (Terraform) and Helm; production GitOps workflows (Argo CD/Flux).
• Cloud (AWS/GCP/Azure) plus real exposure to on-prem/bare metal or virtualization (KVM/Proxmox/VMware).
• Solid networking fundamentals (VPCs/VNETs, VPNs/peering, DNS, L4/L7 load balancing, ingress).
• CI/CD design and operation (GitLab CI/GitHub Actions/Jenkins or similar); caching, parallelization, test orchestration.
• Observability stacks (Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/EFK, OpenTelemetry) and performance troubleshooting.
• Proficient in automation/scripting (Python or Go preferred; Bash a given). Git-centric workflows.

Nice to have:

• Experience with cursor or similar AI tools.
• 2+ years leading a small engineering team.
• Multi-cluster management (Cluster API, Rancher, GKE Autopilot/EKS blueprints).
• Service mesh experience (Istio/Linkerd) and traffic management for canary/blue-green.
• Cost awareness for infra (right-sizing, autoscaling, spot/RI/Savings Plans).
• Supply-chain hardening knowledge (SBOMs, provenance) from a platform perspective.
• Experience building an Internal Developer Platform (Backstage/Port or homegrown).

Soft skills:

• Pragmatic leadership: balances vision with hands-on delivery.
• Excellent communicator with product/dev teams.
• Bias for automation, simplification, and measurable outcomes.

APPLICATION

If you are interested in joining our team, please send us your detailed CV to hr@wise-wolves.com with the subject line IT Infrastructure & DevOps Lead.

Please note that due to the high volume of applications, we'll contact only those selected for interviews. However, your information will be retained for consideration in the future should suitable positions become available.