DevOps Team Lead — Global Scale & Automation

Deel is seeking a DevOps Team Lead to drive automation, scale, and reliability of our global infrastructure. You will lead a cross‑functional team, partner with developers and CloudOps, and continuously improve CI/CD, IaC, and monitoring across multiple AWS accounts.

Ideal candidates bring 2+ years of DevOps leadership, 5+ years as a DevOps engineer, deep AWS and Kubernetes experience, and strong scripting, observability, and security skills. Go and multi-cloud experience are a plus.

Lead and mentor a global team of DevOps engineers. Partner with developers, CloudOps, and automation engineers to improve scale and observability. Continuously improve CI/CD, IaC and monitoring. Own multiple AWS environments with governance, security and cost optimization. Own reliability: on-call, incident response, post-mortems, SLOs and DR. Build self-service tooling and golden paths for engineers. Identify bottlenecks and implement automation fixes. Set priorities and report to engineering leadership. 2+ years managing DevOps/SRE/Platform teams. 5+ years as a DevOps engineer or similar. Deep AWS knowledge: multi-account setups and networking. Kubernetes expertise (EKS) with multi-cluster operations. IaC experience (Terraform/CloudFormation/Pulumi/Crossplane). CI/CD and GitOps experience (GitHub Actions/Jenkins). Scripting with Python/Node.js/Bash. Observability tools experience (Prometheus, DataDog, OpenTelemetry). Security and compliance experience (SOC 2/ISO). Production uptime and incident troubleshooting. Clear communication and strong ownership.