Hybrid DevOps Lead

Posted 2 months ago

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About the role

  • Lead the DevOps team within the SRE organization, managing a team of four to five engineers (including yourself) and acting as technical lead and mentor
  • Spend approximately two-thirds of time on technical work and the rest on people management responsibilities
  • Set the team’s strategy, architect, develop, plan and deliver high-quality solutions
  • Maintain and optimize software deployment and release processes used by product development teams to enable scaling
  • Design, implement, and maintain staging infrastructure and a suite of remote development tools to improve engineering efficiency
  • Continuously improve the observability and reliability of CI/CD pipelines and all associated systems
  • Finalize migrating applications to AWS with a focus on modernizing and optimizing cloud resource utilization
  • Collaborate with the broader SRE team to run effective post-mortems and implement preventive solutions to strengthen system reliability
  • Hold regular one-on-one meetings with team members to guide growth and career development

Requirements

  • Solid background as a DevOps engineer or SRE or a similar position (5+ years)
  • Prior experience leading a team (2+ years)
  • Experience building and operating developer tools and workflows (GitHub Actions, Gitlab CI or similar)
  • Expertise in designing and maintaining containerized environments for production, leveraging Docker and Kubernetes for high availability and scalability
  • Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code tools and best practices with one or more IaC tools (Terraform, Puppet, Ansible, etc)
  • Solid experience with one of the major IaaS providers, such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform or Azure (at Skroutz we favor AWS)
  • Familiarity with observability tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or ELK
  • Experience with version control systems (Git)
  • Desire to troubleshoot, optimize and build software tools
  • Familiarity managing Linux systems
  • A self-driven and solution-oriented attitude
  • Ability to inspire and motivate team members to achieve individual and company­ goals
  • Lead-by-example mentality with good communication and interpersonal skills
  • Being open to receive & share constructive feedback, sharing knowledge and helping other team members through code reviews and mentoring sessions
  • Effective communication and writing skills with a strong tendency to "document as you go"
  • Curiosity - drives innovation and continuous learning, helps us stay agile, improve our products, and better serve our users
  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field ( appreciated )
  • Working knowledge of at least one programming language (Python, Go, or Ruby being a plus)
  • Experience with designing and troubleshooting large systems with many components
  • Familiarity with database technologies (MariaDB, MongoDB, Elasticsearch)
  • Contributions to open-source projects; sharing contributions or personal projects will help during the evaluation process

Benefits

  • A great opportunity to contribute to the evolution of Skroutz towards becoming one of Europe’s fastest growing Marketplaces
  • Thrive in an environment that champions ambitious goals, empowers autonomy, fosters mentoring, and unlocks exciting opportunities for both personal and business growth
  • Competitive full-time salary
  • Ongoing training and development
  • Access to books, online courses, and relevant resources
  • Top of the Line tools and equipment
  • Private Medical Plan
  • Hybrid Working
  • Free gym membership at Golden Gym in Athens, plus OAKA cross training & running courses, Padel and online yoga
  • For all New Skroutz Fathers we offer 30 working days paternity leave (1,5 months in total)
  • Monthly childcare allowance for all Skroutz Parents
  • Free Skroutz Plus subscription

Job title

DevOps Lead

Job type

Experience level

Senior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

No Education Requirement

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