DevOps Team lead

Overview

In this role, you will lead Deel’s global DevOps team to scale a highly available SaaS platform. You will partner with cross-functional squads to improve automation, reliability, and observability across multiple AWS environments. You’ll own governance, security, cost optimization, and incident response, shaping self-service tooling and golden paths for engineers. This position offers the chance to drive platform reliability at a global scale and mentor a evolving team in a fast-growing company.

Pay / Benefits

• Stock grant opportunities
• Flexible office membership option
• Inclusive benefits and country-specific perks
• Optional benefits based on location

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a global DevOps engineering team
• Collaborate with developers, CloudOps, and automation engineers to improve efficiency, scale, reliability and observability
• Continuously improve CI/CD, IaC and monitoring
• Own multiple AWS environments across accounts, including governance, security (IAM, secrets, compliance) and cost optimization
• Own reliability: on-call, incident response, post-mortems, SLOs, disaster recovery and capacity planning
• Build self-service tooling and golden paths so engineers can work independently within shared standards
• Identify bottlenecks and automation opportunities, then implement fixes
• Set priorities and report to engineering leadership

Key requirements

• 2+ years managing DevOps/SRE/Platform teams
• 5+ years as a DevOps engineer
• Deep knowledge of AWS - multi-account setups, managed services (CloudFront, RDS, Elasticache) including networking (VPC, DNS, load balancing, service mesh)
• Deep hands-on Kubernetes expertise (EKS) including cluster design, upgrades, multi-cluster operations, service mesh, Crossplane, Cluster Autoscalers, ingress controllers, network policies, RBAC, workload security and resource tuning
• IaC experience (Terraform/CloudFormation/Pulumi/Crossplane)
• CI/CD and GitOps experience (GitHub Actions/Jenkins, ArgoCD/Flux, Helm)
• Python, Node.js or Bash scripting
• Database and messaging experience (PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ)
• Observability experience (Prometheus Stack, Coralogix/DataDog OpenTelemetry)
• Security and compliance experience (SOC 2/ISO)
• Production experience with uptime, DR and incident troubleshooting
• Clear communication and a strong sense of ownership
• Nice to have: Go, multi-cloud, FinOps, experience scaling teams across time zones

• Clear communication
• Strong sense of ownership
• Leadership and mentoring
• AWS multi-account administration