Head of Devops
Hi there!
We’re Sweed, a product-driven company building an all-in-one cannabis retail platform. We’re looking for a Head of DevOps to own and transform the reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency of our infrastructure at scale.
About Us
At Sweed, we’re reimagining how cannabis retailers operate. Our enterprise-grade platform combines POS, eCommerce, Marketing, Analytics and Inventory Management into a single, seamless solution - eliminating the need for multiple third-party tools.
We believe in simplicity, efficiency, and innovation. That’s why we build for scalability and performance, making life easier for cannabis retailers while driving real business growth.
Why We’re Doing This
At Sweed, we believe in the medicinal potential of cannabis. It has been shown to help with chronic pain, anxiety, depression, and many other conditions. Despite the lingering stigma, we see cannabis as a powerful tool for improving lives.
The industry is evolving rapidly, and we’re here to drive that transformation - making cannabis retail more efficient, accessible, and customer-friendly.
Where We Are Now
We’ve been on the market for 7 years, continuously growing and refining our product.
Our focus is on earning customer trust by improving delivery processes and shipping new features fast. At the same time, we operate in a complex regulatory environment, which makes reliability and operational excellence critical.
Team Structure
Our total team size is 200+ people.
The engineering organization is distributed globally and structured into cross-functional product teams (8-12 people each), including backend, frontend, QA, and analysts. Each team is led by a Team Lead and Product Owner.
Our business and customer-facing teams are primarily US-based, working closely with engineering to align product delivery with real user needs.
What You Will Own
Infrastructure Strategy & Execution
Define and evolve the infrastructure strategy aligned with business goals (scalability, reliability, cost-efficiency)
Translate strategy into a clear roadmap with predictable timelines and priorities
Drive execution across multiple teams while balancing speed and quality
Team Leadership & Growth
Lead and develop a team of up to 6-8 people
Drive hiring, mentoring, and team capability growth
Build strong ownership, accountability, and engineering culture
Operational Excellence
Improve incident management processes (on-call, escalation, postmortems)
Define clear ownership across systems and teams
Introduce reliability practices (SLOs, SLIs, error budgets)
Run disaster recovery drills and ensure system readiness
DevOps Platform & Tooling
Evolve CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes
Standardize infrastructure using Terraform/Terragrunt
Improve observability (Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK)
Key Projects You’ll Drive
Infrastructure Transformation
Migrate Kubernetes clusters from Deckhouse to AWS EKS
Reduce dependency on external vendors and bring infrastructure fully in-house
Reliability & High Availability
Migrate PostgreSQL from AWS RDS to CloudNativePG clusters
Implement cross-region failover and traffic switching
Cost Optimization & Multi-Cloud
Migrate development clusters from AWS to OVH
Optimize infrastructure costs without sacrificing performance or reliability
Tech Stack
AWS, GitLab, Terraform/Terragrunt, Kubernetes, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK, MSSQL, PostgreSQL
What We’re Looking For
3+ years of leadership experience managing DevOps/SRE teams (5+ engineers)
Strong hands-on background in cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, and automation
Experience building and scaling infrastructure in high-load production environments
Solid understanding of reliability engineering and incident management
Experience with cost optimization and infrastructure efficiency
Ability to operate in a fast-paced, evolving environment
English level B2+
What Else Matters
Proactivity – you take ownership and drive improvements
Critical thinking – you look beyond immediate solutions
Adaptability – you’re comfortable with change and ambiguity
What We Offer
Salary in USD (B2B contract with a US company)
Fully remote setup
Flexible working hours (core overlap required)
20 paid vacation days
12 public holidays
3 sick days
Medical insurance after probation
Equipment reimbursement
Hiring Process
Recruiter Call (up to 1 hour)
Technical Interview (1.5 hours)
Roundtable with Heads (1 hour)
Final Interview with CEO (1 hour)