DevOps Team Leader

About us

esh is an innovative banking technology group dedicated to modernizing finance by offering an efficient, automated, cloud-based banking platform. Our solution significantly reduces costs and time, fostering an improved financial experience between banks and their customers.

In an era of automated economic transactions and rapidly evolving machine learning, our novel banking platform presents a compelling alternative to outdated core systems. For the first time, we offer a complete end-to-end solution within a unified modular system. We are driving a technological revolution and reshaping the future of banking. Providing Cloud base system, Deployed in AWS (multi-region, multi-AZ), our infrastructure must meet the highest standards of availability, security, compliance, and recoverability.

Join our groundbreaking technology company and be part of transforming the banking system.

Job Description

We’re looking for a DevOps Team Leader to lead our DevOps efforts as we scale. This is a hands-on leadership role requiring deep technical expertise, strong project and people management skills, and the ability to navigate complex stakeholder environments.

The ideal candidate will lead the day-to-day operations of the DevOps team, ensure operational excellence, drive platform improvements, and manage cross-functional alignment with Dev/Finance/Security/ higher manager.

Responsibilities

Team Leadership & Execution

• Lead, mentor, and grow a high-performing DevOps team.
• Manage day-to-day operations including incident management and task prioritization.
• Ensure SLAs and compliance requirements are met.
• Balance proactive platform improvements with reactive issue resolution.

Platform Ownership

• Oversee the design, implementation, and maintenance of a secure, scalable, multi-region AWS infrastructure.
• Own CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code (IaC), observability (logs, metrics, tracing), and automation tooling.
• Ensure robust disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity practices are in place and regularly tested.

Stakeholder Collaboration

• Act as the main point of contact between DevOps and external/internal stakeholders: Banks, Regulators, Security teams, NOC/SOC, and Development teams.
• Communicate clearly on priorities, incidents, risks, timelines, and platform status.
• Represent DevOps in cross-functional planning and reviews.

Process & Standards

• Define and evolve the DevOps team’s SDLC, deployment standards, and incident response processes.
• Drive best practices in monitoring, alerting, and reliability engineering.
• Champion a culture of ownership, transparency, and continuous improvement.

Requirements

Must-Have

• 7+ years of DevOps / SRE experience, including at least 2 years in a leadership or tech lead role.
• Proven experience managing multi-region AWS production environments.
• Strong skills in Terraform, Kubernetes, CI/CD (e.g., GitHub Actions), observability tools (e.g., Datadog, Prometheus, OTLP).
• Hands-on experience with high-availability systems, disaster recovery, and compliance-driven environments.
• Ability to balance short-term firefighting with long-term vision.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.

Nice-to-Have

• Experience in the FinTech or regulated financial sector.
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks.
• Security-first mindset with experience implementing DevSecOps practices.

Why Join Us?

• Join a mission-critical initiative to reshape the tech foundation of banking.
• Work closely with financial institutions, regulators, and cutting-edge cloud tech.
• Be part of a startup environment that values ownership, trust, and impact.ֿֿ

Do you think you have the passion and inner fire for it? Bring it on and challenge us!

esh is proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace. We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital state, disability or gender identity.