DevOps Team lead

As DevOps Team Lead at Deel, you guide a global engineering team to build scalable, reliable infrastructure for a multi-country payroll platform. You partner with developers and CloudOps to improve efficiency, observability, and governance across AWS environments. You shape self-service tooling and CI/CD practices, enabling engineers to move faster with confidence. You will own reliability, incident response, and capacity planning while driving automation and cost optimization. This role offers impact at scale in a mission-driven company transforming global work.

• Stock grant opportunities
• Flexible office membership
• Optional benefits by location
• Competitive pay
• Inclusive workplace
• Career growth opportunities

• Lead and mentor a global DevOps/SRE/Platform team
• Collaborate with developers, CloudOps and automation engineers to improve efficiency, scale, reliability and observability
• Improve CI/CD, IaC and monitoring practices
• Own multi-AWS environments including governance, security, and cost optimization
• Own reliability activities: on-call, incident response, post-mortems, SLOs, disaster recovery, capacity planning
• Build self-service tooling and golden paths for engineers
• Identify bottlenecks and automation opportunities and implement fixes
• Set priorities and report to engineering leadership

• 2+ years managing DevOps/SRE/Platform teams
• 5+ years as a DevOps engineer
• Deep knowledge of AWS (multi-account, CloudFront, RDS, Elasticache) and AWS networking
• Kubernetes expertise (EKS) including service mesh, autoscalers, ingress, RBAC, security
• IaC experience (Terraform/CloudFormation/Pulumi/Crossplane)
• CI/CD and GitOps (GitHub Actions/Jenkins, ArgoCD/Flux, Helm)
• Scripting in Python, Node.js or Bash
• Database and messaging experience (PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ)
• Observability (Prometheus Stack, Coralogix/DataDog, OpenTelemetry)
• Security/compliance (SOC 2/ISO)
• Production uptime, DR and incident troubleshooting
• Clear communication and ownership

• Strong communication
• Ownership
• Collaborative mindset
• AWS multi-account governance and security
• Kubernetes (EKS) cluster design and multi-cluster ops
• CI/CD tooling and GitOps pipelines