Team leader, DevOps

📋 Job Overview

We are seeking an experienced hands-on DevOps Team Leader with a strong background in Cloud architecture to lead our DevOps team supporting R&D development, infrastructure, and tools. This is a playing-captain role: you will combine technical leadership and team mentorship with direct, hands-on contribution, owning, designing, and executing critical technical projects yourself.

🏢 About Zadara

Zadara is a leading provider of AI edge clouds, delivering a groundbreaking distributed cloud platform purpose-built for sovereign AI applications. Zadara platform powers advanced AI capabilities with the simplicity, agility, and flexibility of cloud computing while ensuring seamless multi-tenancy through fully automated, end-to-end provisioning of compute, storage, and networking resources. Zadara’s vision is to build and operate the largest global Edge Cloud Network to enable innovative technologies & services that improve the way the world communicates, works, heals, travels and plays. We have a global and diverse workforce that is growing as we expand our customer base. Together as a team we are making an impact on the Edge Cloud market.

🎯 The Role

The position is a hybrid position that requires working from our office in TLV three days a week.

✅ Key Responsibilities

• Lead, coach, and empower a high-performing Scrum team of DevOps engineers while remaining actively hands-on with technical tasks and projects.
• Hands-on ownership and oversight of end-to-end CI/CD pipelines to guarantee product quality and system stability across developer workflows.
• Design, build, and maintain scalable infrastructure (Kubernetes, MongoDB, Elastic, etc.) directly and alongside the team to support R&D initiatives.
• Manage and automate internal and 3rd-party tools powering our physical datacenter (~500 servers) for development and testing.
• Act as a technology champion, keeping the team ahead of cloud and microservices trends while driving the adoption of AI tools to boost velocity and productivity.

📌 Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of total experience in DevOps/Engineering, including at least 3 years as a DevOps Team Leader.
• 4+ years of experience with cloud solutions and architecture.
• Proven background in Linux, Git, Jenkins, Python, Docker, Kubernetes, and CM / IaC tools such as Terraform or Ansible.
• Hands-on experience with AI tools and a track record of adopting them to improve workflow efficiency.
• Excellent problem-solving, debugging, and troubleshooting skills.

🎁 Benefits

Zadara is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity in the workplace. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.

🛂 Visa & Eligibility

Zadara is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity in the workplace. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status, and other protected characteristics.