Kayzen

Lead DevOps Engineer (m/f/d)

Remote Lead DevOps Engineer role with clear candidate location fit.

PostedJul 18, 2026

Eligible countries1 accepted country

Seniority signalSenior

Work settingRemote

Accepted candidate locations

India

Role overview

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Handling ~2 Million Req/sec in sub-millisecond latency
Handing & managing ~Petabytes of data
Managing distributed systems deployed across multiple data centers
Optimizing JVM and Linux kernel for optimal performance
Managing our own data center spread across the globe consisting of thousand of powerful servers
Working on some of the most challenging problems of Ad-Tech

Develop and maintain automated provisioning pipelines (PXE, ZTP) to deploy bare-metal servers ( configure hardware, peripherals, services, settings, directories, storage, etc. in accordance with standards and project/operational requirements) at scale across global data centers.
You research and recommend innovative and automated approaches for system administration tasks.

You perform regular security monitoring to identify any possible intrusions.
You repair and recover from hardware or software failures, coordinating with impacted teams.

You apply OS patches and upgrades on a regular basis, and upgrade administrative tools and utilities.
You maintain data center environmental and monitoring equipment.
You perform ongoing performance tuning, hardware upgrades, and resource optimization as required.

Act as a technical lead and trusted point of contact for the infrastructure team, helping drive operational excellence and engineering best practices.
Support mentoring and onboarding of engineers, improve team collaboration and communication, and contribute to scaling the team as the infrastructure organization grows.
Report direcly to CTO while partner closely with other tech teams to improve reliability, automation, monitoring, and incident response processes across the infrastructure stack.

You have min. 8 years of DevOps, system administration/debugging experience, scripting and related tools experience.
2+ years of Team Lead/ people management experience.
You are flexible to work in rotational shifts as part of the incidence response team.
You have good knowledge of coding with Shell and Python/Java and SQL commands.
Hands-on experience with Terraform or Ansible or Puppet/Chef for managing bare-metal configurations and automations.
Strong understanding of L4/L7 load balancing (HAProxy/Nginx) and network performance tuning (TCP/IP stack optimization).
You have good knowledge on pipeline/orchestration tools like Jenkins/Ariflow and similar platforms as mandatory.
You have good knowledge on Observability platform experience (Prometheus, Grafana, InfluxDB) as mandatory
You have good knowledge of Kubernetes will be an added advantage.
Hands-on experience with Unix/Linux.
You have a Bachelor degree, with a technical major, such as engineering or computer science.
You have systems Administration/System Engineer certification in Unix will be an added advantage.

Reporting directly to Co-founder & CTO
Direct access to top management and an extremely “visible” role
Exceptional career growth and learning opportunity
Fully remote work setup
A unique opportunity to be part of an experienced team of industry experts and entrepreneurs who bring massive change to the Adtech market
A fun, driven, and multinational team located across Germany, India, UK, Argentina, Ukraine, Turkey, Spain and many more countries
A flexible work-from-home arrangement
A 500-dollar home-office setup budget
A 1000-dollar annual learning and development budget

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