Lead DevOps Engineer

About ONIQ ONIQ is on a mission to transform manufacturing for a more sustainable and efficient future. With the IQA Lean Copilot, we are pioneering a new category in industrial tech - combining lean production principles with AI, process mining, and advanced data analytics. Our software empowers manufacturers to systematically identify inefficiencies, accelerate improvements, and scale operational excellence across their global production networks. We are a highly motivated team with a strong sense of ownership and passion for what we do. Our entrepreneurial mindset and commitment to innovation have enabled us to grow fast and shape the future of digital lean and green manufacturing. At ONIQ, culture is just as important as product. We foster an environment rooted in authenticity, diversity, integrity, and mutual respect - where everyone is encouraged to bring their whole self to work. What you will do As Lead DevOps Engineer, you will be the technical owner of our multi-cloud infrastructure and data strategy. You’ll have real decision-making authority over our cloud architecture, infrastructure roadmap, and data engineering approach as we scale to serve more Fortune 500 enterprises. This is a hands-on leadership role. You lead through expertise rather than hierarchy: you design, build, and operate key systems yourself while setting the technical direction. You’ll work directly with our founding and senior development team to make critical build-vs-buy decisions, define our infrastructure evolution over the coming years, and establish the foundations that enable our platform and team to scale reliably. Infrastructure Strategy & Architecture - Define and execute our multi-cloud infrastructure roadmap, making key decisions on technology selection and architecture patterns - Own the technical strategy for our Kubernetes-based deployment infrastructure, creating flexible IaC approaches that can adapt to entirely different cloud providers (GCP, Azure, AWS) and on-premise setups dictated by our clients - Build, deploy, and monitor many distinct deployments simultaneously using IaC, navigating complex corporate firewalls and enterprise compliance/policy regulations - Interface with Fortune 500 IT and security teams, successfully translating their special corporate rules and installation regulations into repeatable deployment processes for our software. DevOps Leadership - Engineer the DevOps tooling and automation layers that streamline our data onboarding, allowing us to ingest heterogeneous customer data with minimal manual effort - Own our infrastructure strategy including data (object storage, OLTP/OLAP, caching), CI/CD and orchestration - Develop and optimise APIs and data processing systems using Python (Polars/FastAPI) to benefit from your infrastructure decisions Cross-Functional Collaboration - Partner with product and engineering leadership to translate business requirements into robust infrastructure capabilities - Research and evaluate emerging technologies, making clear recommendations on when and how to adopt new tools What we expect from you Experience & Technical Depth - 6+ years in software engineering, cloud infrastructure, or backend/data engineering roles, with a p