Team Lead DevOps (Platform Team)

Ajax Systems, an international tech company and manufacturer of security systems, is seeking a DevOps Team Lead for their Platform Team. The role involves leading DevOps engineers, managing Kubernetes and AWS infrastructure, and improving CI/CD and observability.

• Lead, mentor, and grow the DevOps/Platform team: set technical priorities, support hiring, provide feedback, and foster a culture of ownership and engineering excellence.
• Own and evolve the Kubernetes platform: cluster architecture, deployment standards, autoscaling, reliability, security practices, and developer experience.
• Improve CI/CD and GitOps workflows to make deployments safer, more repeatable, and easier for engineering teams.
• Collaborate with engineering, product, security, and operations teams to align infrastructure improvements with business and product needs.
• Identify and remove bottlenecks in the software delivery lifecycle, platform operations, and production support processes.
• Strengthen platform security: access management, secrets management, network controls, compliance requirements, and secure-by-default practices.
• Build and improve proactive observability: monitoring, alerting, dashboards, incident response processes, and post-incident improvements.
• Drive cloud cost optimization initiatives and provide practical recommendations for more efficient infrastructure usage.
• Participate in production support and on-call processes for critical incidents, while continuously improving reliability and reducing operational toil.

• 5+ years of experience in DevOps, Platform Engineering, SRE, or Cloud Engineering, including 2+ years in a lead or senior ownership role.
• Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes, preferably AWS EKS, including cluster operations, networking, autoscaling, workload reliability, and security best practices.
• Solid AWS experience: VPC, IAM, EC2, RDS, ElastiCache, Route 53, Lambda, Load Balancers, CloudFront/S3 etc.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and configuration management tools, especially Terraform/Terragrunt.
• Experience with GitOps-based delivery using Argo CD or Flux, and Helm/Kustomize for Kubernetes application management.
• Strong Linux and TCP/IP networking knowledge, including troubleshooting production systems.
• Experience with secrets management, access control, and credential rotation practices.
• Strong observability background: metrics, logs, alerts, SLOs, incident investigation, and tools such as Datadog, Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, ELK, or Opsgenie.
• Ability to lead technical discussions, explain trade-offs, set priorities, and drive decisions across engineering teams.
• Strong communication, ownership, task management, and mentoring skills.
• Experience with advanced Kubernetes tooling: Karpenter, KEDA, Envoy, Istio/Linkerd or similar.
• Experience with streaming platforms such as NATS or Kafka.
• Operational experience with databases such as MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, or managed cloud database services.
• Experience with compliance frameworks such as SOC 2.
• Background in FinOps, cloud cost optimization, and infrastructure efficiency improvements.
• Experience with disaster recovery planning, backup strategies, incident response, or production fire drills.

• The opportunity to suggest and implement your own ideas that directly influence the product and its mass production
• A place in a fast-growing company with a motivated and professional team
• Competitive salary
• Medical insurance
• Corporate English classes
• The opportunity to participate in Ajax’s internal beta-testing program for security systems
• Discounts from partner companies
• Discounts on Ajax products