Head of DevOps

1inch is the DeFi ecosystem building financial freedom for everyone. 1inch products help users and builders trade, hold and track digital assets - with the self-custody, comprehensive security and the intuitive user experience they need to unlock the potential of true crypto ownership. 1inch protocols and APIs provide core infrastructure across the DeFi industry and beyond.

Your mission

As Head of DevOps, you will lead the evolution of 1inch’s infrastructure and platform engineering capabilities, building resilient, secure, and scalable systems that support our global DeFi ecosystem.

You will guide a high-performing engineering team responsible for multi-cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes operations, observability, and developer enablement.

This role combines strategic leadership with deep technical expertise, driving automation, reliability, and operational excellence across the organisation. You will play a key role in empowering engineering teams through self-service infrastructure, standardised deployment workflows, and secure-by-design practices while ensuring our systems remain highly available, cost-efficient, and compliant with industry standards.

What you’ll do

Define and execute the DevOps and platform engineering strategy aligned with company objectives

Lead, mentor, and scale a high-performing infrastructure engineering team

Oversee multi-cloud Kubernetes environments and drive Infrastructure as Code and GitOps adoption

Build and improve self-service tooling for infrastructure provisioning, deployments, and secrets management

Establish and maintain SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs for critical production systems

Drive observability, monitoring, incident response, and post-mortem processes across the organisation

Implement and enforce security best practices aligned with ISO 27001 and SOC 2 frameworks

Optimise infrastructure performance, scalability, and cloud cost efficiency across providers

Standardise engineering workflows and operational processes to improve developer productivity

Who you are

8+ years of experience in DevOps, Infrastructure, or Platform Engineering roles

3+ years of experience leading and managing engineering teams in high-growth environments

Strong expertise in Kubernetes, including cluster management, networking, and security

Extensive hands-on experience with Terraform, Infrastructure as Code, and GitOps practices

Proven experience managing multi-cloud infrastructure environments such as AWS, GCP, and Hetzner

Deep understanding of microservices architecture, distributed systems, and service mesh technologies

Solid experience with observability tooling covering metrics, logging, and tracing

Strong knowledge of CI/CD security best practices and secure infrastructure design

Ability to balance long-term strategic planning with hands-on technical problem-solving

Experience coaching senior engineers and building scalable engineering processes

Nice to haves

Experience working with blockchain infrastructure, Web3, or DeFi ecosystems

Familiarity with event-driven architectures and messaging systems such as Kafka or NATS

Experience with chaos engineering and resilience testing practices

Knowledge of CDN optimisation and edge computing architectures

Strong understanding of the 1inch ecosystem and the broader Web3 landscape

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