DevOps Team Lead

A high-growth, global Fintech Unicorn developing a high-throughput financial infrastructure platform that connects the world’s largest banking institutions and tier-1 financial enterprises.

The platform automatically optimizes capital allocation and liquidity routing for global transactions totaling trillions of dollars. With approximately 250 employees globally, the company combines the technical agility of a scale-up with strong financial stability and institutional backing.

Located in the Tel Aviv area with immediate train and transit proximity, operating on a hybrid work model (1 WFH day per week).

Position Overview-

• DevOps Team Lead leading a squad of 3–4 DevOps Engineers with a ~70% hands-on footprint, reporting directly to the Head of DevOps & Data.

• Owning team execution, workload planning, infrastructure roadmaps, delivery cycles, and hands-on mentoring.

• Architecting and maintaining highly resilient, mission-critical production systems operating under strict regulatory standards (ensuring zero data loss and high availability).

• Managing infrastructure automation, container orchestration, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud security frameworks across AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, and IaC utilities.

• Partnering closely with R&D, Data, and Security teams to support continuous production deployments for global enterprise clients.

• Core Domain & Ecosystem- DevOps Leadership, Infrastructure Architecture, Cloud Provisioning (AWS), Container Orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker), Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Helm, Ansible), Scripting (Python), Monitoring/Logging (ELK Stack), Linux System Administration, High-Availability / Zero-Data-Loss Environments, Financial Regulatory Compliance.

Requirements-

• 2 years of experience in technical team management or squad leadership within R&D / Infrastructure groups – Mandatory

• 5 years of robust, hands-on professional experience as a DevOps / Infrastructure Engineer managing production environments – Mandatory

• Deep, production-grade mastery of Linux operating systems and core system administration – Mandatory

• Extensive hands-on experience architecting and managing cloud infrastructure on AWS – Mandatory

• Strong practical experience with Docker and Kubernetes orchestration in high-volume, multi-cluster setups – Mandatory

• Solid experience writing and maintaining Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform – Mandatory

• Hands-on familiarity with CI/CD automation, configuration management (Ansible/Helm), scripting languages (Python), and observability stacks (ELK) – Mandatory

• Proven capability to design resilient, fault-tolerant infrastructure capable of maintaining strict data integrity and zero downtime – Mandatory