Infrastructure Operations Lead

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 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 DevOpsSRE 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 2030% 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