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Devops Leader

Abu Dhabi, UAE; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

About Us
Established in March 2018, Bybit is one of the fastest growing cryptocurrency derivatives exchanges, with more than 70 million registered users. We offer a professional platform where crypto traders can find an ultra-fast matching engine, excellent customer service and multilingual community support. We provide innovative online spot and derivatives trading services, mining and staking products, as well as API support, to retail and institutional clients around the world, and strive to be the most reliable exchange for the emerging digital asset class.

Our core values define us. We listen, care, and improve to create a faster, fairer, and more humane trading environment for our users. Our innovative, highly advanced, user-friendly platform has been designed from the ground-up using best-in-class infrastructure to provide our users with the industry's safest, fastest, fairest, and most transparent trading experience. Built on customer-centric values, we endeavour to provide a professional, 24/7 multi-language customer support to help in a timely manner.

As of today, Bybit is one of the most trusted, reliable, and transparent cryptocurrency derivatives platforms in the space.

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
Must-Have
  • 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
Nice to Have
  • 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 judgment — able to make reasonable trade-offs across multiple solutions rather than pursuing technical perfectionism
This Role Is NOT for You If…
  • You only want to manage tools, not drive organizational change
  • You prefer waiting for clear instructions rather than proactively defining problems
  • You believe "stability above all else" means "avoid all change"

Why Join Us
At Bybit, we are committed to fostering a supportive and enriching work environment. 
Our benefits include:
- Study Growth Fund: We support your professional development and continuous learning.
- Internal Events: Participate in regular team-building activities, workshops, and events designed to promote collaboration and innovation.
- Global Collaboration: Be part of a diverse, international team, working alongside colleagues from around the world.
- Career Advancement: Access opportunities for growth and advancement within a rapidly expanding global company.
- Internal Mobility: Grow with us- Your long-term development is important to us. We offer internal job opportunities to help build your career path.

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