CloudOps Team Lead

Wrike is the most powerful work management platform. Built for teams and organizations looking to collaborate, create, and exceed every day, Wrike brings everyone and all work into a single place to remove complexity, increase productivity, and free people up to focus on their most purposeful work.

Our vision: A world where everyone is free to focus on their most purposeful work, together.

This remote position is open to residents of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania only

Ready to become a Wriker?

Do you have a solid Cloud Operations background and 1+ years of experience leading a technical team? Are you thrilled to expand your expertise in people and project management, and want to see the big picture of the work you are doing? We are looking for a Team Leader for one of our SysOps teams! It supports our GCP and on-premises infrastructure (including networking), internal services for the SysOps department, and parts of the Wrike product, including staging and production installations.

In this role you will be able to influence decisions, mentor, and upskill your team, enabling partners with a reliable and effective infrastructure and Cloud-based solutions. If you would like to lead a team of system and network engineers and provide them with technical guidance and mentorship but also help our colleagues support the optimization and automation of our everyday tasks, we'd love to speak with you!

More about Your team

We have a team of 5 people who are distributed across multiple European countries. The entire SysOps department consists of 4 teams, with more than 20 people in total. Currently, we are looking for someone who will take ownership of the team’s scope and become both a manager and mentor for the team members.

The team is focused on:

• Managing DB infrastructure (PostgreSQL)
• Working with GCP, Cloudflare, and many other third-party services within an IaC paradigm
• Managing Kafka and data pipeline infrastructure
• Collaborating with the Engineering department and running several products and internal applications
• Managing the virtualization platform (Proxmox)

How You’ll make an impact

• Managing a middle-size team of system and network engineers
• Assuming technical lead and ownership of Wrike product and development infrastructures in both on-premises and cloud environment
• Liaising with other SysOps team leaders on strategy, projects, and day-to-day management of the SysOps Department
• Providing technical guidance and mentorship to team members
• Helping our teams to optimize and automate "every-day" tasks
• Guiding the team to successfully meet their objectives

How we work

• We run Java, NodeJS and PHP applications in Kubernetes and standalone VMs
• We use

• Nginx, HAproxy and Istio for load balancing
• Kafka and rabbitmq for messaging
• PostgreSQL and MySQL as relational databases
• Graylog, Logstash, Fluentd for logging
• Prometheus (VictoriaMetrics) and Zabbix for monitoring
• Puppet, Ansible and Terraform for defining everything as a code
• Jenkins and Gitlab-CI for making pipelines
• Python to automate everything

• GCP, AWS and Cloudflare are our cloud providers
• And we operate in on-premise datacenters with Juniper network equipment

You will achieve your best if you have

• Experience with leading a team
• Strong Linux fundamentals: be familiar with Linux CLI, hands-on experience with web applications
• Network fundamentals: TCP/IP, routing
• Git version control system or other VCS
• High personal responsibility and willingness to grow and learn, as well as a passion for your work

And you will concur our world with

• Experience with any of System Configuration Management tools (Ansible/Puppet/Salt, etc.)
• Experience with CI/CD systems and tools: GitlabCI/Jenkins
• Cloud Technology experience either Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform (managing with either Terraform, Kubernetes)

What’s next?

• Intro call with a Recruiter
• Technical interview
• Cultural interview

Perks of working at Wrike

• 28 calendar days of paid vacation
• Sick leave compensation
• Life insurance plan
• Health insurance plan
• Fitness plan (800 EUR/year)
• Parental leave
• 2 volunteer days
• Full-remote & On-demand access to Co-working space
• Utility allowance (30 EUR/month, subject to taxation)

Your recruitment buddy will be Alexandra Vorobyova, Lead Recruiter.

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Who Is Wrike and Our Culture

We’re a team of innovators and creators who solve the complex work problems of today and tomorrow.

Hybrid work mode

Wrike promotes a hybrid model for team members near our office hubs in San Diego, Prague, Dublin, Nicosia, and Tallinn, with 2–3 in-office days per week to foster collaboration and teamwork. This work mode supports our culture of collaboration and solving problems fast to deliver business outcomes and win together.

Our persona

💡 Smart: We love what we do, and we’re great at it because this is our domain. Our combined knowledge in this space is unmatched.

💚 Dedicated: We get up every day focused on helping our customers win. We’re committed to helping our teammates win, too!

🤗 Approachable: We're friendly, easy to get along with, considerate, and helpful.

Our culture and Values

🤩 Customer-Focused

We care about our customers. We understand the customer journey, experience, and value derived from Wrike. Decision-making and action-taking are done with the customer in mind.

🤝 Collaborative

We work as one and win together, each bringing unique strengths that contribute to diversity of thought for better outcomes. Leveraging our own work management platform, we foster an environment of creative collaboration and shared achievement.

🎨 Creative

We strive to succeed through continuous innovation. It’s our pursuit of novel concepts that helped us create a market category. We continue to cultivate a workplace that fosters creative thinking as a means of transcending conventional boundaries and empowers us to break new ground to deliver extraordinary work management solutions.

💪 Committed

We believe in ownership at all levels of the organization, by owning workflows from start to finish. Each member of our team is an integral part of this commitment, establishing work as a platform for personal growth and transformation, as well as collective success and growth.

Check out our LinkedIn Life Page, Company culture page, Instagram, Wrike Engineering Team, Medium, Meetup.com, Youtube for a feel for what life is like at Wrike.


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