DevOps Team Lead & Cloud Architect

The Opportunity

Yanolja Go Global is looking for a hands-on DevOps Team Lead & Cloud Architect to join our Israel R&D organization.

This role combines formal people leadership with deep technical ownership of our cloud, DevOps, and infrastructure environment.

You will lead and develop the DevOps team while remaining highly involved in cloud architecture, production operations, automation, CI/CD, networking, reliability, monitoring, and complex production incidents.

Architecture is a key part of the role. You will help drive infrastructure improvements, modernization, optimization, and long-term technical direction while maintaining hands-on ownership of critical production environments.

Our environment is primarily AWS-based, with additional exposure to multi-cloud technologies and future cloud evolution.

What You Will Do

DevOps Leadership & Technical Ownership

• Lead, mentor, and develop DevOps engineers.
• Set technical standards and provide hands-on technical guidance.
• Own complex production issues and act as a senior technical escalation point.
• Drive documentation, automation, knowledge sharing, and operational best practices.
• Work closely with R&D, Engineering, Security, Product, and global technology stakeholders.
• Translate technical risks and infrastructure needs into clear recommendations and priorities.

Cloud Architecture & AWS

• Own and continuously improve the company’s AWS environment.
• Design and review scalable, reliable, secure, and cost-efficient cloud architecture.
• Work hands-on with core AWS services including CloudFront, Route 53, VPC, EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, ALB, CloudWatch, and IAM.
• Lead infrastructure modernization and optimization initiatives.
• Drive architecture decisions for business-critical production environments.
• Support future cloud evolution and multi-cloud initiatives where relevant.

Infrastructure as Code & Automation

• Build and maintain infrastructure using CloudFormation and Terraform.
• Drive automation across infrastructure and operational processes.
• Work with scripting and automation technologies including Bash, Python, Groovy, PowerShell, boto3, and AWS CLI.
• Reduce manual processes and improve repeatability, reliability, and operational efficiency.

CI/CD & Delivery

• Own and continuously improve Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines.
• Design reliable build, deployment, and release processes.
• Work with Git-based repositories such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, or AWS CodeCommit.
• Improve developer experience and delivery efficiency through automation and standardization.

Networking & Cloud Connectivity

• Design and troubleshoot cloud networking environments.
• Work with DNS, TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, TLS, Load Balancing, CDN, NAT, VPN, and routing.
• Manage AWS networking components including VPCs, Subnets, Security Groups, NACLs, Route Tables, Peering Connections, Transit Gateway, and Route 53.

Monitoring, Reliability & Production Operations

• Strengthen monitoring, logging, observability, and alerting across production environments.
• Work with CloudWatch and Logz.io and improve visibility across distributed systems.
• Lead complex production incidents through full resolution.
• Improve incident detection, response, and escalation processes.
• Strengthen backup, disaster recovery, business continuity, and infrastructure resilience.

Production Systems

• Support production environments using MySQL and PostgreSQL.
• Work with Docker-based containerized environments.
• Ensure the stability, performance, and availability of business-critical systems.

What We’re Looking For

• 7+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps, Cloud Engineering, Infrastructure, SRE, or a similar role.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS in business-critical production environments.
• Strong cloud architecture and infrastructure design capabilities.
• Strong experience with CloudFormation and Terraform.
• Strong experience with Jenkins and CI/CD.
• Strong scripting and automation capabilities using Bash, Python, Groovy, PowerShell, or similar technologies.
• Strong Linux and networking knowledge.
• Experience with Docker and containerized environments.
• Strong troubleshooting and production incident-management capabilities.
• Experience designing and supporting highly available and scalable production systems.
• Previous team leadership or people-management experience.
• Ability to combine hands-on technical work with architecture and team leadership.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work across global engineering teams.

Nice to Have

• Experience with OCI.
• Experience leading or supporting cloud migration projects.
• Experience in multi-cloud or hybrid-cloud environments.
• Kubernetes experience.
• ArgoCD experience.
• GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, or AWS CodePipeline.
• Grafana, Prometheus, Datadog, or ELK.
• DynamoDB or Redis.
• FinOps or cloud cost-optimization experience.
• Relevant AWS or multi-cloud certifications.

Scope of the Role

This is a hands-on leadership role with formal people-management responsibility for the DevOps team.

The role combines DevOps team leadership, Cloud Architecture, and senior infrastructure ownership, including setting technical direction, mentoring engineers, driving infrastructure improvements and optimization, owning critical production environments, and acting as a senior escalation point for complex technical issues.

The DevOps team is directly responsible for managing the infrastructure environment.

Hiring Process

Intro Call with HR → Technical Interview → Final Interview with Global Infrastructure Leadership

Additional discussions may be added depending on the process.

Who We Are

Yanolja Go Global, part of the Yanolja Group, is a global B2B travel distribution platform connecting hotels, travel agencies, and tour operators through technology and local expertise.

Founded as Go Global Travel, the company has evolved from a local consolidator into a global platform supporting partners across multiple markets.

We make travel smarter, simpler, and more connected.