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Posted 1w ago•Prague, Prague, Czechia | Remote
Head of Infrastructure
HeadRemote~€7,750 – €10,750 / mo
Required Skills
kubernetessecurityInfrastructureTerraformAutomation
Job Description
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
Engineer — Principal / Staff+ Level
- Strong hands-on experience with high-load systems, including messaging queues, proxies, databases, networking, Kubernetes, CI/CD, and Infrastructure as Code.
- Ability to independently troubleshoot and resolve complex production issues.
- Strong experience with both bare-metal and cloud infrastructure, without being tied to a single technology stack.
- Ability to design infrastructure for distributed systems and clearly explain and justify architectural decisions.
- Hands-on experience leading and resolving production incidents.
- Strong systems thinking: you understand the broader consequences of technical decisions and know how to simplify complex systems.
Leader — Head Level
- 5+ years of experience as a Head or Team Lead in a product company.
- Proven ownership of people management, prioritization, hiring, and delivery.
- Strong hiring skills: you can identify and attract strong engineers and confidently make hire/no-hire decisions.
- Proven ability to develop technical leads while maintaining strong technical oversight.
- Strong ownership mindset: you focus on solving problems rather than assigning blame.
- Ability to define the vision and direction for your area and drive it forward without waiting for tasks or instructions from senior management.
- 20 vacation days and 5 family days yearly
- Flexible start to the workday
- Support from a professional corporate coach and psychologist
- Regular internal and external activities, workshops, trips, and corporate events
- Access to our internal knowledge base, meetups, and team-building activities
- Ongoing training in new technologies and continuous professional development support
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