DevOps Manager

DevOps Team Lead | Defense Industry | Central Israel

For a leading defense company in Central Israel, we are looking for an experienced DevOps Team Lead to join a large-scale, technologically advanced engineering environment.

This is a leadership role combining team management with hands-on technical work, within a broader DevOps organization supporting multiple complex projects and multidisciplinary development teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead and manage a DevOps team of 5+ engineers while remaining actively involved in hands-on technical work.
• Drive the implementation and adoption of DevOps methodologies, tools, and processes across multiple projects.
• Design, develop, and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines and development lifecycle processes.
• Build scalable, efficient, and reliable DevOps infrastructures using modern technologies and automation tools.
• Support development and integration teams throughout build, deployment, and release processes across development and customer environments.
• Promote automation, optimization, stability, and continuous improvement across the engineering lifecycle.

Requirements

• 4+ years of hands-on experience as a DevOps Engineer.
• 3+ years of experience leading and managing a DevOps team of 5 or more engineers.
• Strong hands-on experience designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines using tools such as GitLab, Azure DevOps, or Jenkins.
• Strong experience with Git source control and configuration management.
• Experience scripting with Bash and/or Python.
• Hands-on experience working with both Linux and Windows environments.
• Strong experience with Docker containers.
• Experience working with Kubernetes environments; OpenShift – an advantage.
• Experience with Helm.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tools such as Ansible and/or Terraform – an advantage.
• Familiarity with DevSecOps methodologies – an advantage.
• Experience with public cloud environments, particularly AWS, as well as private cloud environments – an advantage.
• Bsc in Computer Science or Software Engineering – a significant advantage.