Lead stability, scalability, and operational excellence at scale.
Softsich is a young and ambitious international product tech company that develops scalable B2B digital platforms. We’re on the lookout for an experienced DevOps Lead/Head who’s ready to grow with us and shape high-load, data-driven solutions used by international partners.
Your key responsibilities will include:
— Owning and managing cloud infrastructure across production, staging, and development environments. — Designing, implementing, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation. — Ensuring production stability, high availability, and scalability of all platform services. — Configuring and maintaining monitoring, alerting, and observability tooling. — Leading incident response for infrastructure-related issues and driving post-incident reviews. — Planning and executing capacity management to support platform growth. — Optimizing infrastructure costs: tracking spend, eliminating waste, right-sizing resources. — Maintaining disaster recovery procedures, runbooks, and on-call readiness. — Coordinating with development teams on infrastructure requirements and service dependencies. — Managing developer tooling and internal platform services to support engineering productivity. — Ensuring security best practices and compliance requirements across infrastructure. — Continuously improving deployment processes, reliability, and operational efficiency. — Leading, mentoring, and growing a team of infrastructure engineers. — Validating and challenging technical estimates to ensure realistic commitments and early risk visibility. — Reviewing team output for quality, completeness, and alignment with technical standards.
It’s a match if you have:
— 5+ years of experience in infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering roles, including at least 2 years in a lead or senior position. — Strong hands-on experience with AWS (EC2, RDS, S3, ECS/EKS, Lambda, VPC, IAM, CloudFront, Route53, ElastiCache, SQS/SNS). — Experience with AWS Organizations (multi-account management, SCPs, consolidated billing). — Proficiency with Infrastructure as Code tools (Terraform, Ansible). — Deep knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes (autoscaling, network policies, cluster management). — Experience with Helm, ArgoCD (GitOps workflows), GitLab CI or GitHub Actions. — Strong monitoring expertise (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, PagerDuty, JSM). — Experience with Cloudflare (CDN, WAF, DDoS mitigation, Zero Trust). — Solid networking fundamentals (DNS, ALB/NLB, VPN, VPC peering, firewalls). — Strong security practices (IAM, Secrets Manager/Vault, CSPM, patch management, compliance readiness). — Experience with high-load systems, load testing (k6, Locust, Gatling), capacity planning. — Experience with databases (RDS PostgreSQL/MySQL, DocumentDB, Redshift, Redis/ElastiCache, Kafka). — Strong Linux administration and scripting skills (Bash, Python). — Proven ability to mentor engineers and validate technical estimates. — Strong communication skills and ability to proactively surface risks.
Nice to have:
— Experience in regulated or high-availability environments.
What we offer:
— Flexible schedule and remote format or offices in Warsaw. — 24 paid vacation days, sick leaves, and health insurance (UA-based, other locations in progress). — A supportive, friendly team where knowledge-sharing is part of the culture. — Coverage for professional events and learning. — Birthday greetings, team buildings, and warm human connection beyond work. — Zero joules of energy to the aggressor state, its affiliated businesses, or partners.
You see infrastructure not as a support function, but as a strategic driver of business stability and growth?
Send over your CV now — we’d love to get to know you better!
