Technical Lead, Artifact Repository Management

Responsibilities

• Design, operate, and scale artifact management platforms such as JFrog Artifactory, Sonatype Nexus, or equivalent
• Remain hands‑on by contributing to platform configuration, automation, troubleshooting, and incident response
• Own availability, performance, scalability, security, and cost efficiency of artifact platforms at enterprise scale
• Manage ingestion, storage, and distribution of open source and third‑party packages
• Implement software supply chain security controls including vulnerability scanning and policy enforcement
• Ensure artifact provenance, integrity, and compliance with enterprise and regulatory requirements
• Architect and operate platforms handling very large volumes of artifacts, metadata, and requests
• Apply deep understanding of compute, storage, network, IO, caching, and replication trade-offs
• Lead or contribute to migrations from on‑premises to cloud or hybrid architectures
• Design for elastic scale, cost control, and operational simplicity in cloud environments
• Design and operate systems for high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery
• Define and manage SLIs and SLOs for artifact platforms
• Build strong monitoring, alerting, logging, and tracing to support rapid detection and recovery
• Lead, coach, and develop a team of engineers responsible for artifact management platforms
• Set clear technical direction, operational standards, and priorities
• Support hiring, onboarding, performance management, and career development
• Foster a culture of ownership, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Partner closely with Dev Ops, CI/CD, security, SRE, and developer teams

• Strong experience with JFrog Artifactory, Sonatype Nexus, or similar artifact repositories
• Hands‑on experience with Java, Python or Go
• Experience with IaC Infrastructure as Code, i.e. Terraform, Open Tofu, or Cloud Formation
• Experience with Cloud AWS, Kubernetes, EC2
• Experience leading, coaching, and developing a team of engineers
• Proven track record running large‑scale, business‑critical enterprise platforms
• Deep understanding of open source ecosystems and package management
• Experience with cloud infrastructure, storage systems, and high‑traffic services
• Practical experience migrating from on‑prem to cloud environments
• Strong grounding in high availability, resilience, and observability