About the role

Role overview

Join Alpaca as a DevOps Team Lead to lead a globally distributed engineering team responsible for critical infrastructure initiatives. This leadership role combines people leadership with technical planning and operational leadership, including roadmap delivery, change management, and incident/on-call management.

Key missions

Lead and manage a globally distributed team to ensure high performance and effective collaboration.
Own delivery of complex yearly roadmap items for foundational infrastructure upgrades, focused on high availability and platform resilience.
Design and refine robust support workflows, agile planning methodologies, and deployment/rollout strategies to ensure operational excellence.

Responsibilities & focus areas

People and tech leadership (not a hands-on daily engineering role).
Prioritization and planning for multi-stage infrastructure initiatives.
Change Management lifecycle ownership.
Building and maintaining support frameworks and methodologies.
On-call management and incident management lifecycle leadership.

Requirements

Strong communication and organizational skills; ability to coordinate complex multi-stage rollouts and deployments.
Proven experience as an Engineering Manager, DevOps Lead, or SRE Lead, including managing globally distributed teams.
Strategic mindset to navigate shifting priorities and act as an organizational anchor for core infrastructure.
Deep expertise in engineering support frameworks, roadmap planning, and team prioritization methodologies.
Proven experience owning Change Management lifecycles.
Extensive experience managing Incident Management lifecycles and running sustainable global on-call rotations.
Exceptional people management skills: coaching, mentoring, and fostering culture across time zones.
Solid technical background in modern DevOps/SRE ecosystems (must fluently understand operational realities).

Nice-to-have / technical fluency (required to understand)

Kubernetes (GKE)
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
Relational Databases (PostgreSQL)
Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos

About Alpaca

Alpaca is a technology company operating in the infrastructure/DevOps space, focused on building and running critical systems. The role emphasizes leading engineering teams responsible for platform resilience, high availability, and operational excellence in a globally distributed environment.

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