Full-Time Head of Infrastructure
Digital Science is hiring a remote Full-Time Head of Infrastructure. The career level for this job opening is Manager and is accepting Europe based applicants remotely. Read complete job description before applying.
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About Digital Science: We advance the research ecosystem by building innovative technology, fostering collaboration, and driving progress.
About the Role: This management role focuses on infrastructure operations for Overleaf and Writefull, leading a team of DevOps engineers.
Responsibilities (Team Manager):
- Line manage senior DevOps engineers (career development and performance).
- Develop and execute the Overleaf Operations roadmap.
Responsibilities (Technical Lead):
- Implement best practices for observability, monitoring, and reliability.
- Educate engineering teams on best practices.
- Assist Operations with DevOps tasks.
- Optimize GCP resource usage to control costs.
- Design and develop runbooks.
- Transfer knowledge to other engineers for increased on-call coverage.
- Progress into wider responsibilities, potentially leading other DevOps engineers.
Essential Skills & Experience:
- Strong cloud computing expertise, particularly Google Cloud.
- Experience implementing best-practice alerting, monitoring, and observability.
- Proven track record of handling production incidents.
- Security-conscious approach (confidentiality, integrity, and availability).
- Experience managing engineers in a technical lead or line manager capacity.
- Ability to make informed operational and technical trade-off decisions.
Preferred Skills (Bonus):
- Terraform, Kubernetes, or Prometheus experience.
- Database experience with Mongo, PostgreSQL, or Redis.
Other Requirements:
- Full-time commitment.
- Strong English communication skills (written and verbal).
- Availability during UK core hours (1400 to 1700) for occasional meetings.