Head of DevOps

Location: European Union (BG)

Description

We are seeking a hands-on Head of DevOps to lead and scale our global DevOps team. In this strategic role, you will transform our very complex setup and configuration process, which is currently text-based and manual, into a semi-automated and scalable. . You will be responsible for shaping our DevOps culture, driving automation, and managing the allocation of DevOps resources..

This is a high-impact leadership role requiring deep technical expertise, operational excellence, and strong collaboration with engineering, QA, and client delivery teams.

Revolution / transformation

Key Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a distributed team of DevOps engineers.
• Oversee environment versioning, configuration management, and infrastructure automation.
• revolutionize our text-based configuration into a generator-based process, supporting a quick span to multiple servers and flexibility to development expansions.
• Drive DevOps knowledge collection and team training - the DevOps team should be the Gold standard as to how to configure and deploy any component or module.
• Manage the team - recruit, train, allocate tasks, supervise delivery. (Note that you are not expected to be the technical leader).
• Drive adoption of DevOps best practices, including monitoring, incident response, and security hardening.
• Continuously evaluate and integrate new technologies to enhance reliability, scalability, and speed of delivery.

Requirements

• 7+ years of DevOps/SRE experience, with at least 5 years in a leadership or managerial capacity
• Experience working with multiple external customers.
• Strong knowledge of version control systems: Git and SVN.
• Strong background in Linux systems administration (preferably RedHat 8).
• Experience with Database applicative versioning
• Experience with large, non-cloud-based systems
• Proficiency in scripting languages (Python preferred).
• Excellent written and verbal communication in English.
• Experience managing production systems in a mission-critical environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the financial industry, especially low-latency trading systems.
• Familiarity with RPM packaging and software delivery processes.
• Hands-on experience with MariaDB/MySQL, including DBA-level management and tuning.
• Experience with messaging systems (e.g., Solace), Solarflare network cards, and BigData tooling.
• Background in optimizing C++ applications on Linux is a strong advantage.
• Knowledge of security best practices on-prem environments .
• Proven experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitLab, Jenkins, etc.).
• Expertise in automation tools (Ansible preferred) and infrastructure scripting.
• Experience writing internal technical documentation and release notes.
• Deep understanding of container technologies, especially Docker.