Devops Team Lead

Devops Team Lead

We're creating a healthier web where communities thrive.

OpenWeb is on a mission to increase the quality of conversations online. We build technologies that create thriving and engaged communities, reduce toxicity, and increase safety — improving the quality of civil discourse and supporting independent journalism. Today, OpenWeb works with more than 5,000 top-tier publishers (including News Corp, Yahoo, CBS, Fox News, Hearst, Refinery 29 and more) and hosts 150 million monthly active users.

Founded in 2015, OpenWeb has over 220 employees between New York City, London, Paris, San Diego, Toronto, and Tel Aviv. We are backed by world-class investors, including Georgian, Insight Partners, Index Ventures, AltaIR Capital, and more. We're crafting technology that brings people together and fosters healthy discussion. It starts with us. Are you in?

What You'll Do:

Lead, mentor, and grow a lean DevOps team; set direction and align roadmap with company goals and engineering needs.
Own the team's strategy, execution, and delivery standards; foster collaboration with peer managers and cross-functional teams.
Design, provision, and optimize AWS infrastructure for scalability, reliability, and performance.
Build and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines, IaC, monitoring, and incident response practices.
Partner closely with engineering from design through post-deployment, ensuring observability, resilience, and smooth releases.
Balance velocity with cost efficiency and security best practices (governance, access, backups, compliance).
Our Stack:
SCM - Github
CI and CD - CircleCI, Github actions.
Cloud providers - AWS, small portion on GCP
Kubernetes on EKS
Datastores and processing - MySQL, PostgreSQL, OpenSearch, Redis, Kafka, AWS SQS, RabbitMQ
Application stack - Go, Ruby, NodeJS, Typescript, JavaScript, React, Python

What You'll Bring:

5+ years of hands-on experience as DevOps Engineer with end-to-end ownership of planning, maintenance, availability, reliability (SLA/SLO), incident response, and on-call.
Proven expertise in Kubernetes in production scale environment - A Must
Proven expertise working with AWS cloud infrastructure - storage, compute, relational and NoSQL database services - A Must
Build and lead CI/CD pipelines and release processes.
Deep understanding of modern web architectures: APIs, microservices, observability, scalability.
Experience with monitoring & alerting tools and practices (logging, metrics, tracing).
Strong Linux, shell scripting, networking, and storage fundamentals; fast production debugging.
Experience with managing multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining a keen eye on delivery timelines and quality.
Collaborative DevOps expert with strong communication and leadership skills, aligning engineering teams and peer managers to deliver scalable, reliable systems.

Nice to have:

Programming experience with Go, Python, TypeScript.
Infra roadmap ownership, budgeting, and vendor management.
Security/compliance background (IAM, policies, firewall, networking, best practices).