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.
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.
- 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
- 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
- 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
1inch is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to evaluating all candidates on the basis of their skills, experience, and potential — regardless of race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, age, religion, disability, or any other characteristic. We believe diverse teams build better products, and we welcome applications from all backgrounds.
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