DevOps Lead Softsich $$$$
Madfish
Software Engineering
Remote
🔹 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/Infrastructure Lead 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!