DevOps Team Lead

Location: Petah Tikva (IL)

Description

We are looking for a DevOps Team Lead for a role combining technical leadership, cloud architecture, and team management.

The role includes designing and building AWS environments from the ground up for a variety of customers, from startups to large enterprises, while leading and mentoring a team of DevOps Engineers.

You will work directly with customers technology leadership (CTOs, R&D Managers), participate in Pre-Sales activities, make technical decisions, and lead the adoption of AI tools and infrastructure for AI projects.

Responsibilities

Leadership & Management

• Lead and mentor a team of DevOps Engineers, including task prioritization, Code Reviews, training, and knowledge sharing.
• Establish Best Practices, standards, and reusable templates across the team.
• Support recruitment and onboarding of new team members.
• Lead the adoption of AI tools within the team's workflows.

Cloud Architecture & Customers

• Design end-to-end AWS architectures with a focus on security, availability, scalability, and cost.
• Lead the setup of Greenfield AWS environments, including Multi-Account, Landing Zones, and AWS Networking.
• Lead cloud migration and modernization projects.
• Work directly with customers' technology leadership on requirements, solutions, and infrastructure roadmaps.
• Participate in Pre-Sales, including technical proposals and effort estimation.
• Design infrastructure for AI projects, including Bedrock, SageMaker, Vector DBs, and RAG Pipelines.

Hands-On

• Lead enterprise-level Infrastructure as Code using Terraform / CloudFormation.
• Design and lead CI/CD and GitOps processes.
• Drive Observability, Cloud Security, Compliance, and FinOps initiatives.
• Handle complex incidents and lead Post-Mortems.

Requirements

What We're Looking For

• At least 2 years of professional leadership experience as a Team Lead or Tech Lead.
• 5+ years of DevOps experience, including 3+ years of hands-on AWS experience.
• Proven experience designing complex cloud architectures and building AWS environments from scratch.
• Strong knowledge of AWS Networking and AWS Organizations / Multi-Account environments.
• Strong proficiency in Terraform, including building enterprise-level modules.
• Extensive experience with Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, and Helm.
• Experience designing and leading CI/CD and GitOps processes.
• Strong knowledge of Linux, Python / Bash, and Cloud Security (IAM, SCPs, WAF, GuardDuty, Security Hub).
• Advanced use of AI tools in day-to-day work, such as Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, and Kiro.
• Strong customer-facing, communication, presentation, and decision-making skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects and customers simultaneously.
• High-level English, including technical documentation and working with international customers.

Nice to Have

• Experience in a project-based company, consulting firm, MSP, or AWS Partner.
• AWS Professional / Specialty certifications.
• Experience leading large-scale AWS migrations.
• Experience building infrastructure for Agentic AI solutions, including platforms and SDLC processes.
• Experience with Pre-Sales and technical proposals.
• Experience with Serverless, FinOps, and large-scale cloud cost optimization.
• Familiarity with SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI, and Multi-Cloud environments (Azure / GCP).