Cloud Technical Lead

GoodData

full-time

Posted on: 9/22/2025

Origin: • 🇨🇿 Czech

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AnsibleAWSAzureCloudDockerGoogle Cloud PlatformKubernetesLinuxOpenStackPuppetPythonShell ScriptingTCP/IPTerraformVMware

About the role

Lead a team responsible for cloud deployments across virtual machines, Kubernetes clusters and physical servers.
Work closely with engineering, architects, security, and product teams to ensure platforms are reliable, scalable, and secure.
Guide, mentor and develop your team, ensuring smooth delivery and long-term team health.
Design and maintain tooling and infrastructure for deployment, scaling and monitoring of the platform.
Design and manage cloud-based and on-premise infrastructure (VMs, K8s clusters, bare metal).
Participate in planning, execution and review of platform improvements and new deployments.
Drive technical decisions and improvements in automation, availability and observability.
Ensure smooth integration with logging, alerting and security systems.
Be responsible for meeting SLA and availability targets.
Support knowledge sharing and growth within the team.
Lead and support a team of infrastructure engineers (5 people).
Participate in 24/7 on-call rotation (approx. 1 week a month).

Proven experience in leading or mentoring a team of engineers (formal or informal).
4+ years of hands-on experience in infrastructure / operations / SRE roles.
Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.
Experience with deployment and management of VMs (e.g. KVM, VMware, OpenStack).
Experience with deployment and management of Kubernetes clusters (on-prem or cloud).
Experience with deployment and management of bare-metal servers.
Proficiency in shell scripting and at least one scripting language (e.g. Python).
Working knowledge of networking, TCP/IP, and common protocols.
Understanding of configuration management and infrastructure-as-code principles.
Good communication skills in English, both written and spoken.
Participate in 24/7 on-call rotation (approx. 1 week a month).
Lead and support a team of infrastructure engineers (5 people).
Nice to have:
Experience with tools like: Docker, Ansible, Puppet, Terraform, Git.
Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure or private clouds).
Experience in security-conscious environments.
Background in agile environments and cross-functional teams.