Head of DevOps (Fintech)

Location: Full-time, on-site in Jerusalem, Israel

Company

hirify.global develops and operates complex technology systems for financial trading environments.

What you will do

• Lead, mentor, recruit, train, and allocate work for a distributed DevOps engineering team.
• Oversee environment versioning, configuration management, and infrastructure automation.
• Transform text-based configuration into a generator-based process that supports multiple servers and development expansion.
• Build DevOps knowledge, documentation, and training practices so the team can configure and deploy components consistently.
• Drive monitoring, incident response, security hardening, reliability, scalability, and delivery improvements.
• Evaluate and integrate technologies while collaborating with engineering, QA, and client delivery teams.

Requirements

• 7+ years of DevOps/SRE experience, including at least 5 years in a leadership or managerial capacity.
• Experience working with multiple external customers and managing production systems in mission-critical environments.
• Strong knowledge of Git and SVN, Linux systems administration, preferably Red Hat 8, and database application versioning.
• Experience with large non-cloud-based systems.
• Proficiency in scripting languages, with Python preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal English communication skills.

Nice to have

• Financial industry experience, especially with low-latency trading systems.
• RPM packaging, software delivery processes, CI/CD pipelines, and automation tools such as Ansible.
• MariaDB/MySQL administration and tuning at DBA level.
• Messaging systems such as Solace, Solarflare network cards, and BigData tooling.
• Optimizing C++ applications on Linux and applying security best practices in on-premises environments.
• Internal technical documentation, release notes, and deep knowledge of Docker and container technologies.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time, on-site work at the entrance to Jerusalem.
• Leadership role focused on DevOps culture, operational excellence, automation, and knowledge sharing.
• Close collaboration with engineering, QA, and client delivery teams.