DevOps & Infrastructure Team Lead (Kubernetes)

Location: Petah Tikva, Kyriat Arye, Israel

Company

hirify.global develops and manufactures autonomous drone systems combining hardware, software, and AI-driven technologies for complex large-scale operations, primarily serving defense, military, and law enforcement organizations worldwide.

What you will do

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of DevOps and infrastructure engineers while setting the team's technical direction.
• Own the infrastructure roadmap across R&D, QA, and field operations.
• Manage development, staging, and production cloud environments using Terraform, Kubernetes, and GitOps.
• Own CI/CD platforms, build runners, versioning, release pipelines, and software images for drone onboard computers and ground units.
• Manage device identity, secrets, certificates, access control, field connectivity, network segmentation, monitoring, logging, alerting, and SLOs.
• Run on-call and incident response, drive post-incident improvements, and manage cloud cost, capacity, and security posture.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience in DevOps, SRE, platform, or infrastructure engineering, including 2+ years leading engineers as a team lead or tech lead.
• Deep hands-on experience with Kubernetes, containers, and infrastructure as code using Terraform or an equivalent.
• Deep experience with at least one major cloud provider: AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Experience owning CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, or similar.
• Strong Linux systems background covering networking, storage, boot, and packaging.
• Strong scripting and automation skills in Python, Bash, Go, or a similar language.
• Experience running production systems, including on-call, incident response, monitoring, and SLOs.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to establish clear ownership boundaries with other teams.

Nice to have

• Experience with embedded Linux, NVIDIA Jetson, Yocto, or custom OS image builds.
• Experience with fleet management or over-the-air updates for edge devices.
• Experience with site networking, including enterprise firewalls, VPNs, VLANs, cellular, and satellite links.
• Experience with on-premises or air-gapped deployments.
• Experience with security and compliance in regulated environments.
• Experience with robotics, drones, or autonomous systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on leadership role combining team management with significant infrastructure development.
• Ownership of the full platform from cloud to vehicle, including one pipeline from commit to field deployment.
• Opportunity to build infrastructure for systems where reliability supports safe physical operations, not only uptime.
• Opportunity to shape the infrastructure team's charter, ownership boundaries, and tooling.