DevOps Team Lead

Linkedin Top startup for 2022 - Lightrun is a fast-growing and well-funded startup based in Tel Aviv. Lightrun’s revolutionary platform is changing how developers write, debug and understand code. We give developers the power to understand the behavior of their live applications on-demand, in real-time, without ever stopping the running applications which utterly transforms the development experience, supercharging productivity, slashing costs, and making it easier to fix bugs. Lightrun's customers consistently reduce their MTTR by up to 50-60% and significantly improve development productivity and observability costs. With customers varying from Fortune 500 (including F10 companies) to SMEs and SMBs across multiple verticals, Lightrun is growing rapidly.

We’re based in Tel Aviv (already stretching one leg out to the US), very dog-friendly, and absolutely love to see people bring out their best in interviews. We bring the coffee, you bring the thunder! :)

We are looking for a strong DevOps Team Lead to join the hunt!

Responsibilities:

• Lead and manage the DevOps team, providing guidance, mentorship, and support to ensure the team's success and professional growth.
• Actively participate in hands-on technical tasks, contributing to the development, deployment, and maintenance of our observability platform.
• Design, implement, secure and maintain the infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines, and deployment processes to support the Lightrun platform.
• Take full end-to-end responsibility for all infrastructure related projects
• Collaborate with the development, QA, and product teams to ensure smooth integration, testing, and deployment of software releases.
• Drive automation and scalability efforts to optimize system performance, reliability, and availability.
• Continuously monitor and improve the observability, monitoring, and logging systems to ensure the stability and performance of the platform.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest industry trends and technologies, and evaluate their potential impact and benefits for Lightrun.

Qualifications:

• 2+ years of experience in a leadership role, managing and mentoring a DevOps team.
• 5+ years experience in a DevOps role, with a strong background in infrastructure management, CI/CD methodologies, and automation.
• Strong hands-on experience in both cloud and on-premise environments, such as AWS, Azure, GCP, and managing on-premise infrastructure.
• Proficiency in infrastructure management and deployment using cloud platforms and on-premise solutions.
• Solid understanding of containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes) and orchestration tools.
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation for both cloud and on-premise environments.
• Proficiency in scripting languages like Python, JavaScript or Bash.
• Excellence knowledge of Linux based systems
• Hands-on experience with monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, DataDog or ELK stack for both cloud and on-premise environments.
• Familiarity with agile development practices and the ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
• Ability to work independently
• Can-do attitude