Head of Infrastructure

Location

Prague, with a flexible start to the working day.

About the company

An engineering organisation running high-load distributed systems across bare-metal and cloud environments, with a strong focus on reliability, performance and security.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate the infrastructure platform, covering reliability, performance, resilience and security across networking, Kubernetes, messaging and data systems, and resolve production incidents and bottlenecks.
• Set and execute the infrastructure roadmap, including migrations, high availability, monitoring, security, CI/CD and full failover and disaster recovery capability, and write and review Infrastructure as Code.
• Lead the infrastructure area end-to-end: priorities, capacity planning, on-call processes, cost management, project breakdown and delivery in close collaboration with development teams.
• Own technical hiring and people development, including screening, interviews, hire decisions and growing technical leads who can act independently.

Requirements

• Principal or Staff+ level hands-on background in high-load systems spanning messaging queues, proxies, databases, networking, Kubernetes, CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code, with independent troubleshooting of complex production issues.
• Experience across both bare-metal and cloud infrastructure without dependence on a single stack, plus the ability to design distributed-system infrastructure and justify architectural decisions.
• Proven incident leadership and systems thinking, understanding the wider consequences of technical choices and simplifying complex systems.
• 5+ years as a Head or Team Lead in a product company, with ownership of people management, prioritisation, hiring and delivery, and the ability to set a vision and drive it without waiting for instructions.