About the job Infrastructure Operations Lead (DevOps & SRE)
EMCD is a global technology leader in the crypto industry, best known as the #1 mining pool in Eastern Europe and a Top-10 mining pool worldwide. We are expanding globally and building a comprehensive ecosystem of crypto services, including payment infrastructure, custody, mining solutions and enterprise-grade tools for businesses and institutions. As part of our expansion, we are launching new strategic directions focused on building the next generation of mining and financial infrastructure.
We are looking for a strategic Infrastructure Operations Lead to oversee and evolve our infrastructure capabilities by leading both an established DevOps team and a newly formed SRE function. In this role, you will drive operational excellence across a Platform-as-a-Service architecture supporting 30+ products within a high-load blockchain and fintech environment. You will operate in a global engineering organization of 100+ specialists, shaping reliability, scalability, and efficiency at platform level.
Tech Environment
Bare-metal Kubernetes, Go, PostgreSQL, Kafka, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, Grafana, ELK stack.
Responsibilities
Team Leadership
- Lead the existing DevOps team and build the SRE team from scratch
- Hire, onboard, and integrate SRE engineers into the current infrastructure organization
- Drive professional development, performance growth, and skill planning across both teams
Infrastructure Strategy & Reliability
- Develop and execute infrastructure strategy supporting 30+ products
- Ensure 99.9%+ uptime through strong DevOps–SRE collaboration
- Define and implement unified processes across DevOps and SRE
- Own incident management leadership and cross-team response coordination
Platform Performance & Scalability
- Lead performance optimization through automation and observability practices
- Oversee capacity planning to support business growth
- Define infrastructure roadmap for scaling toward 40+ products
Operational Efficiency
- Execute cost-optimization initiatives targeting 20–30% savings
- Drive vendor evaluation, technical decision-making, and contract negotiations
- Oversee platform reliability standards (DevOps scope)
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Align infrastructure priorities with Engineering, Finance, Compliance, C-level stakeholders, and Support teams
- Participate in strategic technology evaluation and adoption decisions
Requirements
Core Experience
- 5+ years in infrastructure engineering/operations
- 3+ years leading engineering teams in FinTech
- Proven experience managing DevOps or platform engineering teams
- Strong understanding of SRE principles and their practical implementation
- Production-level Kubernetes expertise (bare-metal experience is essential)
Leadership & Strategy
- Experience integrating existing and newly built teams into one structure
- Background in infrastructure strategy for enterprise-scale environments
- Hands-on incident leadership in high-stakes production systems
- Practical FinOps / cost optimization experience
Technical & Operational Skills
- Vendor technical evaluation and negotiation experience
- Strong understanding of performance optimization (DB + application layers)
- Cross-functional stakeholder management skills
- Professional English for international collaboration
Nice to Have
- Leadership in high-load systems (blockchain or financial platforms)
- IaC ecosystem knowledge (Terraform, Ansible)
- Observability platforms experience (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK)
What we offer
- Remote-first company - work from anywhere in the world
- Fully flexible working hours
- Extended time off: 20 paid vacation days + 12 bonus days per year
- 100% paid sick leave
- Paid English lessons (iTalki)
- Professional growth support (courses, certifications, training programs)
- Real impact and ownership in fintech & crypto projects
- Corporate benefits: EMCD product discounts and mining infrastructure access
- Payment in USDT
- Employment via Service Agreement