DevOps Engineer

Company Description

Breeze is building a new digital insurance player and developing a next-generation cargo insurance platform that tackles the traditional marine insurance industry’s biggest pain points. By unlocking your data’s full potential, we move from intuition-driven to truly data-driven risk assessments and process automation. Our seamless integrations with existing systems and workflows deliver better cargo protection, faster quotes, and new revenue streams—in minutes.

We’re a small, tight-knit startup on a mission to transform an age-old market. We value smart, curious, dedicated team players who thrive in ambiguity and fast-moving environments. Your mindset, character, and cultural fit matter more than your years of experience.

Role Description

Position: DevOps & Developer Experience Engineer

Type: Full-time, Hybrid (3 days in Tel-Aviv office per week)

Location: Tel Aviv, Israel

As Breeze’s DevOps & Developer Experience Engineer, you’ll own and evolve the systems, tooling, and processes that empower our engineering teams to move at lightning speed—with confidence. You will:

• Design, build, and maintain our cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform (GCP) using Terraform (IaC).
• Develop and optimize CI/CD pipelines, release automation, and GitOps workflows in GitHub.
• Containerize applications with Docker, manage registries, and collaborate on orchestration strategies.
• Champion and improve developer tooling: local dev environments, SDKs, internal libraries, and coding standards.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and logging (e.g., Stackdriver, Prometheus) to ensure reliability and rapid incident response.
• Partner cross-functionally—backend, frontend, data, and product—to identify friction points and deliver intuitive, self-service developer platforms.
• Embed DevOps best practices and a “you build it, you run it” mindset across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

• Infrastructure as Code: Author and maintain Terraform modules for modular, reusable infrastructure patterns.
• CI/CD & GitOps: Build end-to-end pipelines in GitHub Actions; automate testing, security scans, and deployments.
• Container & Cloud Operations: Harden Docker images, manage registries, and support GKE or Cloud Run deployments.
• Developer Experience: Create and maintain starter projects, internal CLIs, IDE configurations, and self-service docs/portals.
• Monitoring & Reliability: Define SLIs/SLOs, build dashboards, set up alerts, and lead post-mortems.
• Automation & Tooling: Automate repetitive tasks (e.g., environment provisioning), integrate third-party services, and build custom tooling where needed.
• Collaboration & Culture: Evangelize DevOps and DX best practices;

Qualifications

• 2–6 years in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or Developer Experience roles.
• Python: Comfortable writing automation scripts, small services, and CLI tools.
• Terraform: Proven experience designing, testing, and modularizing IaC.
• Google Cloud Platform: Familiar with core services (Compute, GKE/Cloud Run, IAM, Networking).
• Docker: Image creation, security hardening, and lifecycle management.
• GitHub: Deep understanding of GitHub Actions, branching strategies, and repo management.
• Monitoring & Logging: Hands-on with Stackdriver (Cloud Monitoring/Logging), Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent.
• Automation Mindset: Passion for removing toil, improving developer workflows, and enabling self-service.DevOps Culture: “You build it, you run it”;
• Comfortable in fast-paced, startup environments with shifting priorities.
• Soft Skills: Problem-solver, strong communicator in English, team player, ready to roll up your sleeves—and yes, we appreciate a good sense of humour.