Head of Cloud IT Infrastructure

Social Discovery Group is the world's largest group of social discovery companies which unites more than 50 brands. For more than 20 years, we have been creating premium international dating services and social discovery apps with a focus on video streaming, AI technologies, entertainment, and game mechanics. Our product portfolio includes Dating.com, Cupid Media, Dil Mil, and many others. The products are already used by more than 500 million users in 150 countries around the world.

SDG Invests in social discovery technology startups around the world. Our Investments include Open AI, Patreon, Flo, Wildly, RAW, EVA AI, Clubhouse, Magnet, Tubit, Woebot, BamBam, Flure, Astry, Coursera, Academia, Harbour, Space, Auto1, DocSend, AppAnnie, Rapyd, Boom Supersonic, Trading, View, K-Health and many others.

We solve the problem of loneliness, isolation, and disconnection with the help of digital reality.

Our digital nomad team of more than 800 professionals works all over the world. Our international team of like-minded people and professionals solves ambitious daily tasks and creates truly global products. We value focusing on results, a proactive approach, and we are always looking for new and unconventional ideas.

Our teams of digital nomads live and work remotely from Cyprus, Malta, the USA, Thailand, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Australia, Poland, Israel, Türkiye, Latvia and many others.

We are seeking for a Head of Cloud IT Infrastructure who will have a pivotal role in implementing a cloud infrastructure for our company's products.
 

Your primary responsibilities will include:

• Providing resilient computing resources on demand.
• Offering monitoring and incident processing services.
   

We expect you to meet the following requirements:

• Possess a minimum of 5 years of IT management experience.
• Have a successful track record of moving servers to cloud storage.
• Have experience in budgeting and cost optimization.
• Be familiar with ITIL.
• Have experience in managing infrastructure, both on virtual cloud and public ones (VMM, AWS, Azure, GWS).
• Have experience in incident management and troubleshooting using tools like Datadog, Kibana, Jira, Zabbix and Grafana.
• Have experience in vendor management and project management.
• Fluent English & Russian.
  
  Nice to have:
• Experience in virtualization (Hyper-V)
• Knowledge of Kubernetes.
• Knowledge of CDN (Akamai, CloudFlare).
• Knowledge of load balancing (Nginx).
   

What do we offer:

• REMOTE OPPORTUNITY to work full time;
• 7 wellness days per year (time off) that can be used to deal with household issues, to lie down and recover without taking sick leave;
• Bonuses up to $5000 for recommending successful applicants for positions in the company;
• Full payment for professional training, international conferences and meetings;
• Corporate discount for English lessons;
• ​Health benefits. If you are not eligible for Corporate Medical Insurance, the company will compensate up to $1000 gross per year per employee according to the paychecks. This can be spent on self-purchase of health insurance, or on doctor’s fees for yourself and close relatives (spouse, children);
• ​Workplace organization. The company provides all employees with an equipped workplace and all the necessary equipment (table, armchair, wifi, etc.) in the locations where we have offices or co-working. In the other locations, the company provides reimbursement of workplace costs up to $ 1000 gross once every 3 years according to the paychecks. This money can be spent on the rent of the co-working room, on equipping the working place at home (desk, chair, Internet, etc.) during those 3 years;
• Internal gamified gratitude system: receive bonuses from colleagues and exchange them for time off, merch, team building activities, massage certificates, etc.
   

Sounds good? Join us now!