bama is a technology company building one of Iran’s leading automotive marketplaces. We operate at the intersection of technology, data, and one of the country’s largest and most dynamic markets, helping users discover, evaluate, buy and sell vehicles through a large-scale digital platform.

We are looking for an Infrastructure Team Lead to take ownership of the infrastructure and reliability foundation behind bama and help us build the next generation of our engineering organization.

This is a hands-on leadership role. We are looking for someone who enjoys solving hard technical problems, can go deep when needed, and is equally comfortable thinking about architecture, reliability, automation, security, and people.

What you'll do

• Own the architecture, evolution, reliability, and scalability of bama’s infrastructure.
• Build and execute a clear infrastructure roadmap aligned with the needs of the engineering organization.
• Take ownership of infrastructure, networking, compute, storage, deployment systems, observability, and infrastructure automation.
• Establish strong Infrastructure-as-Code and automation practices and eliminate repetitive operational work.
• Design systems for high availability, scalability, resilience, backup, and disaster recovery.
• Improve production reliability through monitoring, alerting, incident management, capacity planning, and systematic root-cause analysis.
• Work closely with software engineers to make application delivery faster, safer, and more reliable.
• Establish engineering standards around infrastructure, deployment, security, access management, and operational excellence.
• Own infrastructure security and work with relevant teams to identify and mitigate operational and security risks.
• Make pragmatic architecture and technology decisions, balancing reliability, performance, engineering velocity, and cost.
• Build a strong infrastructure organization: define roles, hire exceptional engineers, mentor them, and create an environment where they can do their best work.
• Introduce the processes and engineering practices required for the infrastructure team to scale without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.
• Be hands-on when it matters: investigate production issues, review infrastructure code, troubleshoot complex failures, and build automation when necessary.

What we're looking for

We are looking for an engineer who has grown beyond simply operating infrastructure and is ready to own and build an infrastructure organization.

Strong technical experience in several of the following areas is expected:

• Linux systems and production environments
• Cloud infrastructure and architecture
• Networking, load balancing, DNS, CDN, firewalls, and security fundamentals
• Infrastructure as Code and configuration management
• CI/CD and modern software delivery practices
• Observability, monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting
• High availability, scalability, fault tolerance, backup, and disaster recovery
• Production troubleshooting and incident response
• Infrastructure and application security
• Database infrastructure and performance fundamentals
• Cost and capacity management

Leadership & ownership
You don't need to be a people manager who has stopped being technical.

We are looking for someone who can:

• Take ambiguous problems and turn them into clear technical plans.
• Make decisions and take ownership of their consequences.
• Challenge existing assumptions and improve the way things are done.
• Communicate complex technical topics clearly with engineers and non-engineers.
• Build trust with software, data, security, and business teams.
• Hire and develop strong engineers.
• Set a high technical bar while remaining pragmatic.
• Build the team, processes, and culture almost from the ground up.

Hands-on mindset
This is not a purely managerial position.

We expect you to remain technically involved.

You should be comfortable opening a terminal, reading infrastructure code, debugging a production issue, investigating a networking problem, reviewing a deployment, writing automation, or designing an infrastructure improvement when necessary.

We don't expect you to personally implement everything. We do expect you to understand the systems deeply enough to make the right decisions and jump in when the situation requires it.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of relevant experience in Infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, Platform Engineering, or related fields.
• Significant experience operating production systems at scale.
• Proven experience designing and evolving infrastructure architecture.
• Experience leading engineers or owning a technical domain end-to-end.
• Strong Linux and networking fundamentals.
• Strong understanding of automation and Infrastructure as Code.
• Experience with production systems and modern infrastructure practices.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field is preferred.
• Graduates of strong engineering/computer science programs are preferred, but demonstrated technical depth and real-world impact matter more than the name of the university.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

This role is a great fit if...

• You are the person engineers call when production is on fire.
• You enjoy understanding how systems work under the hood.
• You care about reliability but don't worship process.
• You automate things instead of repeatedly doing them manually.
• You can move between architecture-level discussions and low-level debugging.
• You want to build a team rather than simply inherit one.
• You have strong technical judgment and aren't afraid to make difficult decisions.
• You want to have a meaningful impact on the infrastructure behind a major consumer-facing marketplace.

What you'll get to build
At bama, you won't just maintain an existing infrastructure organization.

You'll have the opportunity to shape how infrastructure is built and operated at bama — from architecture and engineering standards to automation, reliability, observability, security, and eventually the team itself.

If building robust systems, solving infrastructure problems, and building a team sounds exciting to you, we'd like to hear from you.