Infrastructure Team Lead in Constanţa

Databases (advanced) Web Services (advanced) Web Applications (advanced) Team Leadership (advanced) Networking (advanced) Cloud Platforms (advanced) Job title: Infrastructure Team Lead (m/f) – Immediate Start Department: Technology Team size: Three people in total, including the Team Lead Are you an experienced Infrastructure professional looking for a leadership role in a dynamic and fast-growing company? Then apply now, the team is looking forward to welcoming you! As an Infrastructure Team Lead, you will be responsible for leading a small team of reliability and DevOps engineers to assure the performance and resiliency of our entire platform stack, identifying metrics that provide the confidence to the business in the performance of our systems, 24x7. You will be developing and mentoring two / three engineers, building them into a team respected for the quality, stability, reliability, and performance of their platform. We are implementing agile practices such as Continuous Integration for environment builds, Scrum & Kanban, Automation across the application & infrastructure and establishing a DevOps culture. Success in the role will see the effective use of Linux & Windows on-premise, public cloud, and SaaS/PaaS provisions as appropriate to deliver a market-leading car hire integration platform. We deliver and operate a high performance, low latency, high concurrency platform that integrates our car rental supplier and distribution partners all over the world. Key Responsibilities:• Defining the vision for the Infrastructure Operations function within Carnect • Leading and mentoring a small team of reliability and DevOps engineers to assure the performance and resiliency of our entire platform stack • Redefining our platform to meet the challenge of maintaining flawless delivery at pace without compromising our reliability • Planning and designing our response to failure scenarios, disaster recovery, and business continuity. • Working closely with the application engineering team, the wider technology team, and other stakeholders to ensure our systems function within SLA and that outages are dealt with rapidly and effectively • Design and build tooling and technology to provide operational visibility into the performance and resiliency of our platform • Articulating the business benefits of your team’s initiatives to senior business stakeholders ensuring their total support and buy-in • Lead the design of core technology and infrastructure components ensuring they support failure recover patterns; driving overall architecture to those designs CANDIDATE PROFILE• Significant experience with operations and infrastructure related computing projects • Knowledge of the complete stack including web applications, web services, databases, operating systems, and networking infrastructure • Supporting consumer-facing applications and services including triaging and managing live incidents • Knowledge of one of cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), infrastructure as code (Cloud formation, Terraform), performance measurement and tuning • Networking (switching, routing, VPN) • Leading, mentoring and developing junior team members • Strong customer focus with the ability to communicate with senior stakeholders & tech staff • Fluency in English is required, additional languages (particularly German and/or another major European language) are advantageous, but not necessarily required • Capable of working very independently and in a self-regulated manner • Experience in the travel & tourism sector is an advantage but not essential • Experience leading platform teams in high volume applications is a big advantage but not essential • A proven track record of defining technical strategy and leading implementation of challenging technical projects is a big advantage but not essential If you are passionate about leading infrastructure operations and implementing agile practices in a fast-growing company, then we encourage you to apply for this exciting role.