Manage onboarding, offboarding, employee records, benefits administration, HR inquiries, and employment compliance for teams in Canada and Poland. Execute accurate payroll cycles, remittances, reconciliations, year-end filings, terminations, audits, and payroll improvements. Support office management, inventory, staff lunches, and social events while maintaining confidentiality and delivering a positive employee experience.

Plan and execute a zero-downtime migration of stateful data systems (Druid, Spark, Redpanda, Airflow, PostgreSQL, Elasticsearch) from bare-metal VMs to Kubernetes on OpenStack. Codify infrastructure as code, implement safe StatefulSet/PVC and upgrade patterns, and own day-to-day operational health. Build observability, SLOs, runbooks, KPIs, and optimizations. Partner with SRE on hardware, networking, and Kubernetes fundamentals while owning data applications end-to-end.