Position: Head of SRE
Company: Smart Hires
Category: Other
Experience required: 5y

We are actively looking for Head of SRE to join our client’s international product company with exciting brand that is increasingly recognized across the world. This entertainment platform is represented in 4 continents and more than 10 countries.

**Skills required:**

• 5+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps\SRE;
• 2+ years of team leading and people management experience;
• Deep understanding of DevOps practices and SRE implementation;
• AWS is a must, GCP\Azure or other consideration as a plus;
• Strong practical experience with CNCF projects;
• Perfect communication and problem-solving skills;
• Endless desire to grow and develop others.

**Our perfect match will be the professional who:**

• Leads SRE team in daily operations and establishes standards of team organization (in hybrid and full remote setups). Defines the process, objectives and KPI. Ensure its alignment with IT and Tech strategies.
• Sets strategy and collaborates with key stakeholders cross-functionally in developing the roadmap for the SRE team aimed toward reducing the operational overhead in sub-streams and platforms.
• Defines operations (DevOps, NRE and SRE) practices and guidelines company-wide.
• Carries responsibility for k8s and kafka reliability, overall DB governance. The householder of traffic, routing, observability and finops domains.
• Operates, monitors, and maintains high availability of SRE platforms and services running in Cloud & DC environments.
• Leads design, develop and delivers tools and automation to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of cloud service infrastructure and platforms.
• Troubleshoots infrastructure and platforms issues, and works with the relevant teams (Public cloud vendors, application teams, Cloud Engineering) to resolve issues.
• Leads and focuses teams on root cause analysis, pattern identification and continuous improvement in order to optimize application performance, resiliency and reliability.
• Helps secure infrastructure and access policies along with IT Security unit to reduce risk.
• Provides CI/CD platforms, tools and processes to the development teams.
• Looks for opportunities to drive operational efficiencies while reducing costs. Develops and implements finops strategy. Manages budget to plan and is responsible for meeting/delivering against budgetary goals and objectives.
• Influences individuals within and outside the ITO function. Prepares and presents reports to all levels of leadership and staff.
• Serves as a guide and mentor to members of the Cloud Platform SRE teams to aid in their growth and development.

**About the team:**

IT Operations — is an IT Security product team focused exclusively on high-quality engineering (technical) results. You’ll have an opportunity to quickly level up your skills in terms of professional growth, and to work with about 300 unique product services, large infrastructure, cloud services/ k8s/ ELK, and a diverse stack of modern technologies.

**Tech Stack:**

Kubernetes, Nomad, GitlabCI, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, Alertmanager, Ansible/Terraform, Kafka/RabbitMQ, Redis/MongoDB, PostgreSQL.

**We offer:**

• Medical insurance/Sport compensation;
• Sport club participation (football, running, basketball or swimming clubs);
• 100% paid sick leaves;
• 20 working days of paid vacation.
• Bonuses according to company’s policy;
• Gifts for significant life events (marriage, childbirth).
• Individual annual training budget with an opportunity to visit paid conferences, training sessions, workshops etc.;
• Free corporate library;
• Opportunity to visit our non-stop internal meetups: open talks, IT Pump, etc. as a participant or a speaker and exchange knowledge;
• Corporate parties and events (Pub Quiz, Carquest, etc.).