Devops Team Lead

Orca AI is revolutionizing maritime operations with cutting-edge computer vision, augmented reality, and autonomous technologies. Our mission is bold: make ocean shipping safer, more efficient, and significantly greener.

From real-time navigation assistance to AI-driven insights that reduce fuel consumption and prevent collisions, we’re building a future where ships sail smarter. Join our growing team and help shape the next generation of intelligent maritime systems used by leading fleets across the globe.

We are looking for a hands-on DevOps Team Lead to take ownership of our infrastructure, DevOps practices, and automation pipelines.

You will be the technical and operational lead for a small but growing DevOps team, driving reliability, scalability, and security across our cloud environments.

In this role, you will split your time between leading and mentoring the team, designing and evolving infrastructure, and implementing solutions.

What You’ll Do

• Lead, mentor, and grow the DevOps team.
• Define and enforce DevOps best practices across infrastructure, CI/CD, and security.
• Manage the SeaPod Lab environment for developer and test usage.
• Operate and evolve the SeaPod Server Linux infrastructure, deployed at scale worldwide, handling complex connectivity and security.
• Maintain consistent baselines, update tools, and ensure fleet-wide monitoring and support.
• Design, manage, and evolve AWS infrastructure (VPC, IAM, networking, RDS, EKS, etc.).
• Operate and upgrade Kubernetes/EKS clusters, manage Helm charts, operators, and custom resources.
• Define namespace policies, quotas, and resource allocations.
• Drive security, compliance, and cost optimization.
• Maintain and enhance GitLab CI pipelines for multiple workloads (Lambda, EKS, EC2, etc.).
• Integrate testing, linting, and vulnerability scans into CI/CD workflows.
• Build reusable pipeline components for microservices.
• Own monitoring and alerting strategies (Grafana, CloudWatch, Coralogix, Prometheus).
• Operate and tune PostgreSQL (RDS, Aurora) and manage backups/restores.
• Manage distributed tracing. Lead upgrade from Fluentd → OpenTelemetry.
• Architect and deploy serverless solutions (Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway).
• Integrate with event-driven services (SNS/SQS, Kinesis, RDS Proxy).
• Manage IAM roles/policies, secrets, and security posture.

Requirements

• 5+ years of hands-on DevOps, including 2+ years in a leadership or mentoring role.
• Strong production experience with AWS services (VPC, RDS, EKS, IAM, Lambda).
• Proven track record operating Kubernetes/EKS clusters at scale.
• Expertise with Terraform (or similar IaC tools) and GitLab CI/CD (or equivalent).
• Solid background in Linux systems administration, ideally managing large distributed fleets.
• Practical experience with PostgreSQL in production (replication, tuning, backup/restore).
• Hands-on with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry).
• Experience designing and operating secure, compliant environments (SOC2/ISO27001 familiarity a plus).

Why Join Us

• Shape the team and technical direction in a fast-growing startup, making a real-world impact.
• End-to-end ownership of the DevOps function, from infrastructure to processes.
• Work on both cloud-native and large-scale distributed Linux systems.
• Fun, fast-paced and challenging work environment
• Hybrid work model, based in Israel.