DevOps & Platform Engineering Team Lead

Pixellot's infrastructure is the backbone behind millions of live sports events worldwide, enabling seamless experiences from the initial video capture at remote venues to delivering real-time streams and leveraging machine learning for monetization. In this pivotal position, the DevOps & Platform Engineering Team Lead will take charge of ensuring the reliability, scalability, and operational excellence of the company's cloud platform. This role involves leading a small, high-impact team of DevOps and platform engineers - combining deep infrastructure ownership with platform thinking - building self-service tools and infrastructure that enable R&D teams to move fast and independently.

As part of your role, you will:

• Team Leadership & Growth - Mentor engineers, conduct performance reviews, and build a high-trust collaborative team.
• Leverage AI to accelerate development and delivery - leverage industry leading tools and our company’s agentic concepts to speed up development and operational workflows.
• Operational Excellence- Set high standards for code quality, monitoring, and incident response; ensure systems are robust and secure.
• Technical Direction - Guide architectural decisions, balancing immediate product needs with long-term scalability.
• Enable Autonomous Execution - Build self-service platforms (GitOps, observability, cost dashboards) so product teams deploy and monitor independently.
• Stay Hands-On - 60%+ of your time is hands-on: Lead architecture reviews, debug critical incidents, and mentor through code and config reviews - you're a player-coach.

You should bring with you:

• 5+ years in infrastructure or DevOps engineering, with at least 2+ years leading teams (managing 3+ engineers, as manager or tech lead).
• Strong development background - The team builds tools for developers; a coding mindset is essential (Python, Go, Node.js or similar).
• Deep Kubernetes expertise - Production experience with EKS and/or GKE, GitOps (ArgoCD/Flux), service mesh, resource management, and multi-tenant cluster operations.
• GitOps & CI/CD mastery - Deep hands-on with ArgoCD or Flux, kustomize/Helm, rollout strategies, deployment safety, change ownership, and audit trails.
• AWS platform depth - EC2, EKS, S3, CloudFront, IAM/IRSA, VPC networking, RDS, cost optimization levers.
• Observability mindset - Proven experience building and operating monitoring stacks (Prometheus/Grafana/Datadog/Coralogix); SLO-driven thinking, actionable alerting, runbook culture.
• AI-first mindset - Actively uses AI tools (Copilot, Claude) to accelerate development and ops workflows.
• Platform engineering background - Experience building self-service developer platforms, golden paths, and internal tooling that reduces team dependency on DevOps.
• People leadership skills - You've hired, mentored, and grown engineers; conducted performance reviews; and built high-trust, high-performing teams.
• Ownership & Communication - own outcomes end-to-end, escalate only when truly blocked, and translate infrastructure complexity into business impact.

Bonus points if you have:

• GCP experience (advantage) - GKE, GCS, Cloud Run, or hybrid multi-cloud operations.
• Video streaming infrastructure - HLS, RTMP, CDN optimization, live video pipelines.
• FinOps / cost optimization - Cost attribution, right-sizing, storage lifecycle policies, etc.

Why You'll Love Working Here:

• Real Impact: your decisions affect millions of fans, coaches, and venues globally.
• Unique challenges at scale: real-time video, K8S and CDN optimizations, from HW to SW.
• Ownership & Growth: high autonomy, influence platform strategy, clear path to leadership.
• AI-First Culture: cutting-edge AI tools, define how Pixellot leverages AI across engineering.

Join the Team!

If you're excited to lead a team that powers live sports globally - combining infrastructure reliability, backend services, and platform thinking to enable autonomous product delivery - we'd love to hear from you.