DevOps Engineer (Infrastructure & Platform Lead)

We are hiring remote specialists who have already relocated from Russia.

Role Overview

We are seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to serve as the foundational in-house lead for our infrastructure and delivery systems. After three years of outsourced management, we are bringing this function internal to drive a proactive, integrated engineering culture.

You will be the bridge between our current "ticket-based" outsource legacy and a future-proof, automated platform. This role requires a blend of hands-on technical mastery (IaC, CI/CD) and strategic decision-making regarding cloud providers, cost-efficiency, and regulatory compliance.

Key Responsibilities

Strategic Infrastructure & Cloud Governance

• Infrastructure Roadmap: Define and execute a long-term strategy for infrastructure evolution, moving away from reactive fixes to proactive improvements.
• Cloud Strategy & Cost Analysis: Conduct a comprehensive comparison between AWS and other cloud providers. You will advise leadership on the best path forward regarding cost-efficiency, feature sets, and long-term scalability.
• Resource Optimization: Own the AWS/Cloud budget. Implement proactive monitoring and "Shift-Left" cost estimation so that new features are built with resource efficiency in mind.
• DORA Compliance & Exit Strategy: In light of DORA legislation, you will lead the "Multi-Cloud Readiness" initiative, ensuring we have a viable migration or redundancy plan to avoid total vendor lock-in.

Engineering Integration & Support

• Embed with Engineering: Move away from "external vendor" silos. You will participate in development sprints and feature design from day one.
• Shift-Left Operations: Participate in the feature development process from the design phase to ensure infrastructure requirements are baked in from day one.
• On-Call & Vendor Coordination: While you will be the internal point of contact, you will manage our relationship with the outsource provider, who will continue to provide 24/7 coverage and "firefighting" support for urgent weekend issues.
• Knowledge Sharing: Create the company’s first Infrastructure Knowledge Base to eliminate tribal knowledge and document the architecture of our release processes.
• Mentorship: Act as a bridge between teams, teaching QE and Developers how the pipelines work and how to leverage infrastructure tools effectively.

CI/CD & Performance Engineering

• Pipeline Modernization: Finalize the transition from GitHub Actions to Jenkins while fundamentally resolving the root causes of daily pipeline instability.
• Proactive Monitoring: Implement advanced alerting and observability to catch resource constraints and pipeline warnings before they stall development.
• Developer Experience (DX): Build and maintain a seamless feature-branch deployment workflow, empowering QE and Dev teams to manage their own releases and E2E test environments.
• Stability: Identify and resolve root causes of daily pipeline failures rather than applying "band-aid" fixes.

Platform Engineering & IaC

• Kubernetes Management: We currently utilize a proprietary K8s wrapper. You will evaluate whether to maintain this fork or migrate to an open-source solution, balancing the cost of migration against the benefits of a standard ecosystem.
• Database Support: Provide "vague-to-moderate" support and optimization for our data layer, including PostgreSQL/Aurora* and ClickHouse.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Architect and maintain our environment using Terraform, Pulumi, or AWS CDK. Your goal is to build an internal library that allows product engineers to self-serve simple infrastructure needs.

Technical Requirements

• Cloud: Expert-level AWS (S3, Aurora, EC2); experience with GCP is a significant plus.
• Orchestration: Deep Kubernetes knowledge (Vanilla or specialized distributions like Deckhouse).
• IaC: Familiarity with Terraform, Go, or CDK.
• CI/CD: Mastery of Jenkins and experience with GitHub Actions.
• Observability: Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, OpenSearch, and Sentry.
• Security: Secret management via HashiCorp Vault.
• Databases: Familiarity with PostgreSQL/Aurora and ClickHouse.

Soft Skills

• Pragmatic Adaptability: The ability to learn a proprietary system (like Deckhouse) and optimize it before jumping into a costly migration.
• Proactivity: A "stop the bleed" mindset that addresses root causes rather than symptoms.
• Leadership: The ability to mentor developers on how to "write their own" infrastructure using your provided templates.

Culture at Wert

• Earn based on impact: At Wert, compensation is tied to contribution, not hierarchy. Your growth and results directly shape your rewards.
• Shape a new work culture: Join a team redefining how quality, innovation, and satisfaction come together. We foster collaboration, autonomy, and continuous learning.
• Focus on what matters: Work on cutting-edge Web3 projects that shape the future, with a team that values both excellence and well-being.
• Create the future of Web3: Collaborate with leading projects, explore new technologies, and help make Web3 accessible to everyone — while building a career that grows with the industry.