DevOps Group Leader (Platform Engineering)

Location: Raanana, Israel; hybrid model with 2 days in the office and 3 days working remotely each week.

Company

hirify.global develops AI, cloud, and digital software for customer experience, financial crime prevention, regulatory compliance, and public safety.

What you will do

• Define and execute the Platform Engineering vision, roadmap, standards, governance models, and engineering practices.
• Build, lead, and develop a multidisciplinary organization covering DevOps, SRE, infrastructure, platform engineering, security enablement, databases, and observability.
• Own AWS cloud infrastructure strategy and lead modernization with Kubernetes, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, and self-service platforms.
• Lead enterprise CI/CD platforms, deployment workflows, release engineering, developer tooling, templates, and reusable services.
• Improve reliability through incident response, root-cause analysis, observability, risk management, technical debt reduction, and production readiness.
• Partner with R&D, Product Management, Security, Operations, Architecture, and data platform teams on secure, scalable, compliant cloud services.

Requirements

• B.Sc. in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of leadership experience managing engineering teams and 8+ years of hands-on experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, cloud infrastructure, or software engineering.
• Experience leading large-scale cloud-native SaaS environments and cross-functional initiatives across multiple organizations.
• Strong AWS expertise and understanding of cloud architecture patterns, Kubernetes, containers, and distributed systems.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, including Terraform, OpenTofu, CDK, CloudFormation, or Helm.
• Experience designing and operating CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps, or ArgoCD, plus observability and production operations.

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• Experience leading Platform Engineering transformations or operating multi-tenant SaaS architectures.
• Experience with AI-enabled engineering tools, automation frameworks, Database Reliability Engineering, or data platform operations.
• AWS or equivalent cloud certifications.
• Experience operating regulated, security-sensitive, or compliance-driven platforms.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, creative, and fast-paced environment within a global software company.
• hirify.global-FLEX hybrid work model with 2 office days and 3 remote days each week.
• Opportunities for learning, growth, and internal career development across roles, disciplines, domains, and locations.
• Equal opportunity employment environment.