Lead DevOps Engineer

About us

Nearmap is the Australian-founded, global tech pioneer innovating the location intelligence game. Customers rely on Nearmap for consistent, reliable, high-resolution imagery, insights, and answers to create meaningful change in the world and propel industries forward.Harnessing its own patented camera systems, imagery capture, AI, geospatial tools, and advanced SaaS platforms, Nearmap stands as the definitive source of truth that shapes the livable world.

Job description

We're looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer to help shape the future of our cloud infrastructure and DevOps practices as we build our new engineering hub in Warsaw.

In this role, you’ll play a pivotal part in driving our DevOps maturity—leading a small team, mentoring engineers, and setting technical direction across cloud, CI/CD, observability, and service reliability. You’ll work closely with the Director of DevOps and senior stakeholders across the business, blending technical leadership with strong communication and strategic influence.

You’ll be part of a platform that processes petabytes of high-resolution aerial imagery, powers AI-driven analytics, and delivers real-time geospatial intelligence to industries worldwide. Performance, scale, and availability are at the heart of what we do—and your work will be critical to ensuring our systems are reliable, secure, and resilient.

We value engineers who bring a hands-on approach, a fresh perspective, and a strong sense of ownership. Whether it’s shaping infrastructure roadmaps, automating delivery pipelines, or supporting cross-functional teams—you’ll help us push the boundaries of what’s possible with location intelligence.

As a people leader, you’ll manage and support up to 3 DevOps Engineers, guiding them through growth, technical challenges, and impactful delivery.

This is more than a DevOps role—it’s an opportunity to drive technical evolution, champion modern practices, and be part of a team that’s passionate about engineering excellence and real-world impact.

Qualifications

• 7+ years’ experience working in a DevOps role.  

• 2+ years’ experience in a tech lead role

• 3+ years’ experience working with public cloud infrastructure.

• Experience designing and building application containerisation and modernisation solutions Docker and Kubernetes.

• Extensive experience supporting Linux infrastructure and cloud native workloads.

• Extensive experience writing and deploying Infrastructure as code – Terraform.

• Experience with web-based and/or services-based applications.

• Experience to implementing and supporting observability tools and frameworks within Kubernetes and Cloud hosted workloads.

• Scripting and deployment automation experience.

• Experience working and supporting infrastructure in a highly available environment.

• Experience in designing CI/CD, logging, and monitoring tools for development teams.

• Able to communicate complex IT technology concepts to technical and non-technical staff.

• Expert at designing and building application containerisation and modernisation solutions Docker and Kubernetes.

• Understanding of enterprise architectures.

• Exposure to NIST Cyber security framework and compliance frameworks (SOC2)

• Exposure with AWS Security Tools

• Exposure to Container Vulnerability / Compliance Scanning tools

• Welcome collaboration and have a positive attitude.

• Excellent written, visual, and verbal communication skills

• Strong collaboration and leadership skills

• Proactive and self-directed, you thrive in a fast-paced team environment.

• Constantly learning and continuously improving in familiarity with industry-leading DevOps/SRE tools, best practices, and technologies.

What we offer:

• Access to LinkedIn Learning

• Nearmap subscription

• Wellbeing and technology allowance