Devops Leader

About the role

Established in 2018, Bybit is one of the world's leading cryptocurrency exchanges and digital financial platforms, serving over 80 million users across more than 200 countries and regions. Powered by world-class technology and a user-first mindset, Bybit delivers a seamless ecosystem across trading, payments, wealth management, custody, institutional services, and Web3 - connecting users to the future of digital finance. Our core values define how we build. We listen, care and improve to create products and experiences that put users first. Backed by a global team of ambitious builders, problem-solvers, and innovators, we foster a high-performance and fast-moving environment where talent is empowered to drive real impact at the global scale. Supported by 24/7 multilingual customer service and a strong commitment to innovation, we are shaping the future of finance through technology, collaboration, and bold execution. Today, Bybit is recognized as one of the most trusted and transparent platforms in the digital asset industry, continuing to expand its global presence while building the infrastructure for the next generation of financial services. DevOps Leader (Head of Engineering Effectiveness) About This Role We are looking for a DevOps Leader who can genuinely transform the engineering organization's effectiveness. You are not just managing a toolchain - you are driving an engineering culture shift that empowers every engineer to deliver faster, safer, and with greater confidence. You are the ultimate owner of the company's technical infrastructure and engineering productivity. Core Responsibilities Strategy & Leadership Define the company's DevOps and platform engineering strategy, align it with business objectives, and report effectiveness metrics to the CTO and engineering leadership Build and continuously improve the engineering effectiveness measurement framework ( DORA Metrics: deployment frequency, change failure rate, MTTR, lead time for changes), driving quantifiable improvements Champion engineering culture transformation, fostering genuine collaboration across development, QA , and operations - breaking down process silos rather than reinforcing them Platform Engineering & Infrastructure Lead the development of an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) to reduce cognitive load for engineers and improve the overall developer experience (DevEx) Build and continuously evolve end-to-end CI/CD pipelines to support high-frequency, high-quality production releases Drive full adoption of Infrastructure as Code (IaC), enabling versioned, auditable, and repeatable infrastructure management Reliability & Security Establish an SLO/ SLA framework and champion a Blameless Postmortem culture Shift security left (DevSecOps) by embedding security scanning and compliance checks directly into the delivery pipeline Architect multi-cloud/hybrid cloud strategies, making informed trade-offs between cost, elasticity, and stability Team Building Recruit, develop, and motivate the DevOps/SRE team, establishing clear technical career growth paths Make sound technical trade-off decisions under resource constraints, and clearly communicate the business value of technical investments to non-technical stakeholders

Requirements

• 10+ years of engineering experience in the internet/tech industry, with 5+ years of hands-on DevOps/SRE/platform engineering experience
• Proven experience building high-concurrency, high-availability production systems (10M+ daily requests or equivalent complexity); experience in e-commerce, fintech, gaming, or healthcare is preferred
• Experience leading a DevOps/SRE team of 30+; bonus for candidates who have built a team from scratch or significantly elevated team effectiveness
• Proficiency in container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes) with production-grade cluster planning, capacity management, and incident handling experience
• Hands-on experience with mainstream CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, etc.) and IaC tools (Terraform, Helm, Ansible, etc.)
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (Go / Python / Java), with the ability to independently build automation tools and platform components
• Experience building an Internal Developer Platform (IDP) or engineering effectiveness platform from the ground up
• Familiarity with AIOps / LLM applications in operations (intelligent alerting, root cause analysis, auto-remediation)
• Hands-on experience with multi-cloud architecture design and cost optimization (AWS / Alibaba Cloud / Tencent Cloud / Azure)
• Familiarity with FinOps, with the ability to incorporate cloud cost into engineering effectiveness metrics
• Soft Skills
• Able to drive change in ambiguous environments; strong sense of ownership - you don't wait for perfect conditions to act
• Data-driven communicator who can clearly present the business value of engineering improvements to the CTO and business stakeholders
• Sound technical j

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