DevOps Team Leader (Core Team)

At Thales, we know technology has the ability to make our world more secure, sustainable, and inclusive – and that it’s all driven by human intelligence.

Because it takes human intelligence to build and power the systems and solutions that people depend on every day. So we stay curious and make space for diverse points of view. We share what we know and we challenge what’s possible.

We’re driving progress in some of the world’s most important industries - from the bottom of the oceans to the depths of space and cyberspace - and from manufacturing to engineering, we work together to build a future we can all trust.

Imperva, a Thales company, is a globally recognized cybersecurity leader, dedicated to securing data and applications across diverse environments. Our cutting-edge solutions empower organizations to safeguard their most critical assets, ensuring robust protection against emerging threats.

We are looking for a DevOps Team Leader (Core Team)  to drive our DevOps vision, infrastructure strategy, engineering productivity, and operational excellence across the organization.

In this role, you will lead a team of 6 DevOps engineers and work closely with R&D teams to design, build, and operate scalable, reliable, and efficient infrastructure and development platforms.

This is a hands-on leadership role with significant technical ownership and cross-organizational impact.

The role follows a hybrid work model, requiring on-site presence one day per week in Rehovot and one day per week in Tel Aviv.

Key Responsibilities:

• Define and drive the TechOps and DevOps strategy, roadmap, standards, and best practices across the organization
• Design, implement, and maintain shared and cross-team DevOps platforms and infrastructure solutions
• Lead, mentor, and develop a team of DevOps engineers
• Own and continuously improve CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, deployment processes, and developer tooling
• Partner with R&D teams to improve developer experience, engineering productivity, deployment velocity, and operational efficiency
• Drive high standards of reliability, scalability, availability, observability, security, and operational readiness
• Own and evolve monitoring, logging, alerting, and incident response capabilities
• Provide technical leadership and influence cross-team infrastructure and architectural decisions
• Identify infrastructure bottlenecks and operational risks and drive improvements from design through production
• Establish reusable solutions, automation, and standards to reduce operational overhead across engineering teams
• Participate in production incident handling and continuously improve operational processes based on lessons learned

Requirements:

• At least 2 years of managerial experience.
• At least 6 years of hands-on DevOps experience in production environments.
• Proven experience designing and delivering infrastructure and DevOps projects end-to-end from scratch.
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS, including technologies such as EKS, IAM, CloudFront, RDS, MSK, networking, and related services.
• Strong Kubernetes experience in production environments.
• Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code, particularly Terraform.
• Strong scripting and automation skills using Python and/or Bash.
• Strong Linux administration and troubleshooting skills.
• Hands-on experience with observability and monitoring platforms such as Grafana, VictoriaMetrics, Datadog, Coralogix, and AWS CloudWatch.
• Strong experience with GitLab CI/CD.
• Experience troubleshooting complex production infrastructure and distributed systems.
• Proven ability to take ownership and drive technical initiatives from design through production.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across multiple engineering teams.
• Willingness to participate occasionally in PagerDuty/on-call escalation as second-line production support.

Nice to Have:

• Previous experience leading, mentoring, or technically guiding engineers; formal people-management experience is not required.
• Experience building or operating internal developer platforms or shared infrastructure services.
• Experience with cloud cost optimization and infrastructure capacity management.
• Experience with Kubernetes ecosystem tools related to GitOps, autoscaling, observability, networking, or security.
• Experience with Pulumi.
• Experience with env0 and Terragrunt.

Why Join Us:

• Take a key leadership role while remaining deeply hands-on technically.
• Lead and grow a core infrastructure team with broad organizational impact.
• Own critical areas of cloud infrastructure, developer productivity, delivery platforms, and production operations.
• Influence technical standards and architecture across multiple R&D teams.
• Work in a fast-paced, cloud-first environment using modern infrastructure and DevOps technologies.

Thales, champions inclusion and we believe diversity strengthens the fabric of our culture. We are an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, colour, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.