Cloud Lead (US Timezone)

Relout is a place created by ambitious people with a passion for technology. We work for international projects and clients from various industries, helping startups, software houses, and enterprises to transform and scale their businesses. We’re a boutique consulting (https://relout.team) & technology (https://relout.cloud) partner that builds the foundation to scale for our client’s success. Our mission is to connect best-in-class, passionate engineers with fast-growing digital & technology companies.

We're looking for a Cloud Engineer Lead to join a long-term project with one of our clients. This well-established provider of safety solutions for the logistics sector operates mainly in the US and Canada. One of your responsibilities will be to lead a team of 4-5 cloud engineers including their backlog, perform estimating & reporting (Scrum), and be the main contact person for development teams, collect requirements, and support them in their goals. On a technical level, you will perform various migrations (from on-prem to cloud, Azure Government to Azure Canada Commercial, etc.), ensure infrastructure best practices in Azure & Kubernetes space, and mentor a team (currently consisting mostly of mid-level engineers).

We require the candidate to be available in the PST time zone with a little flexibility to ensure overlapping availability with their teams on the east side of the US (California), which would mean working hours of around 3 PM - 11 PM Polish time, mostly for sync-up meetings with the team and management.

Responsibilities

• Lead and guide a cloud-engineering team that maintains core company infrastructure
• Drive team plannings, dailies, and other ceremonies that you choose to be necessary to prioritize and execute work
• Implement and develop infrastructure automation & configuration through Terraform
• Design and develop reliable and scalable Azure and Kubernetes infrastructures and deployments.
• Review existing solutions and identify opportunities to improve overall productivity for efficient infrastructure management.
• Provide continuous re-evaluation of existing stack and infrastructure to maintain optimal performance, availability, and security.
• Focus on security when working with cloud infrastructure and automating processes.
• Introduce tools and solutions to facilitate better automation and operability of services.
• Work with continuously delivered (CI/CD) systems, SQL/NoSQL data stores, and microservices based on Kubernetes & Azure resources
• readiness to work in the afternoons from 4 p.m. Polish time
  
  

Requirements

• Min. 5 years of experience as a Cloud or DevOps Engineer with documented experience as a Team/Tech leader
• Experience with Cloud (Azure) & Kubernetes management & development, including complex and distributed systems.
• Maintaining and developing Helm charts and Kubernetes manifests
• Building reusable and scalable infrastructure components and automation (Infrastructure as Code) via Terraform
• Ability to share your knowledge, experiences, and opinions on the forum via technology demos/brainstorming sessions
• Experience with developing & maintaining CI/CD pipelines (GitHub, GitLab, Azure DevOps, etc.)
• Fluent verbal and written skills in English
  
  

We offer

• Salary range: 28000 – 35000zł per month B2B
• Payment in either USD or PLN (we have a branch in Poland)
• Regular company events and integrations (meetups)
• Recurring Fun budget to spend on anything that makes you happy (team activities encouraged!)
• Educational budget to spend on certifications, training, and conference attendance
• Ability to access & use coworking office spaces in every major city in Poland
• Attractive referral programs
• Unlimited legal advice & support with B2B partnership and self-employment
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