DevOps Group Manager

Check Point's Harmony SASE is one of the fastest growing businesses in the company, delivering cutting-edge security and networking as-a-service from the cloud. We’re looking for a DevOps Group Manager to lead and grow our DevOps organization, which is core to enabling rapid product innovation and highly reliable service delivery at scale.

You will manage a group of ~25 DevOps engineers across 3 teams, supporting over 250 R&D engineers and growing. The DevOps group is responsible for CI/CD infrastructure, production reliability, developer velocity, and infrastructure as code across a multi-region AWS environment.

This role requires excellent leadership, project management, and technical depth to coordinate dozens of cross-team initiatives, align priorities with R&D needs, and ensure we meet strict SLAs in production. Experience managing offshore teams is a strong advantage, as approximately one-third of the group is based in Europe.

In addition to core DevOps responsibilities, this group is also leading innovation around AI Agents that assist engineers through ChatOps and internal developer tools. This includes building the underlying infrastructure for running and managing AI Agents using the Model-Context-Protocol (MCP) design pattern. Familiarity with AI-driven tooling, developer agents, or backend systems for LLM workflows is a strong advantage.

Major Responsibilities

• Lead and grow a high-performing DevOps group responsible for CI/CD, cloud infrastructure, and production operations
• Manage multiple DevOps team leads and oversee delivery across projects and priorities
• Collaborate with R&D group leaders, product managers, and security teams to align infrastructure and tooling to business needs
• Own and evolve our cloud infrastructure (multi-region AWS, ECS, Fargate, Kubernetes) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Drive operational excellence and system reliability through monitoring, automation, and incident management best practices
• Ensure robust deployment pipelines (GitHub Actions) and development workflows to support fast, safe, and scalable software delivery
• Oversee cost management, scalability, and performance of our growing cloud footprint
• Manage project portfolios, coordinate resources, and drive cross-functional execution in a fast-paced environment
• Work effectively across time zones with remote and offshore team members
• Lead initiatives to integrate AI Agents and ChatOps into developer workflows, leveraging MCP (Model-Context-Protocol) architecture

Desired Background

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps / infrastructure engineering roles, with 2+ years managing DevOps teams or groups
• Proven experience leading complex projects involving CI/CD, cloud, and production operations
• Hands-on familiarity with AWS (especially ECS, Fargate, Kubernetes), Terraform, GitHub Actions, and observability tools like Datadog
• Deep understanding of building and operating enterprise-grade web applications and SaaS environments
• Strong leadership, people management, and mentoring capabilities
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills
• Experience in fast-growing, modern cloud-native R&D environments with high reliability demands
• Project management mindset with the ability to track, prioritize, and deliver dozens of concurrent initiatives
• Experience managing offshore teams is a plus
• Experience with AI Agent infrastructure, ChatOps, or MCP-based architectures is a significant advantage