Devops Team Lead

Via is using technology to transform transportation around the world. From changing a single person’s daily commute to reducing humanity’s collective environmental footprint — we’ve got huge goals.

As a Devops Team Lead at Via, you’ll join our R&D center in TLV. You’ll be leading a team of developers and devops engineers, directly contributing to our product by using cutting-edge technologies. You’ll take a critical part in our mission to shape the future of transportation, affecting tens of thousands of riders daily worldwide.

Production Infrastructure DevOps Team is responsible for managing and optimizing a large-scale environment spanning multiple Kubernetes clusters, AWS accounts, and thousands of serverless functions, while continuously architecting new solutions. As a hands-on lead, you’ll guide a skilled engineering team and directly drive reliability, scalability, and efficiency at global scale.

What You’ll Do:

• Take full technical ownership of the Production Infrastructure Team, leading efforts to manage and optimize a large-scale production environment with tens of Kubernetes clusters, thousands of Lambda functions, and spanning across tens of AWS accounts.
• Investigate and resolve complex production issues while driving research and implementation of architectural improvements to ensure scalability and reliability.
• Lead innovative projects such as automating Kubernetes fleet management, designing high-availability architectures, implementing service mesh capabilities, and building automated canary mechanisms.
• Address unique challenges of operating at high scale in AWS, leveraging a modern tech stack including AWS services (EKS, Lambda, VPC, RDS, Elasticache, S3, KMS, SQS), Helm, ArgoCD, Gitlab CI, Terraform, Python, Go, and observability tools like OpenTelemetry, Prometheus and Grafana.
• Recruit, mentor, and grow a high-performing team of engineers, fostering a collaborative and innovative team culture.
• Act as a hands-on leader, driving design, coding, and delivery of critical features and solutions to production.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the success of production systems and support the scaling of services across the company.

Who You Are:

• Hands on! Not afraid of tech challenges.
• B.Sc. Computer Science or a related field.
• Minimum of 4 years of experience in managing and operating Kubernetes clusters in production or developing system tools for Kubernetes. A deep understanding of Kubernetes is required.
• Minimum of 6 years of experience in Devops.
• Minimum of 3 years of experience in one of the clouds: AWS, GCP, Azure
• 1+ years of professional experience in backend or full-stack development in a product development role (not scripting).
• Experience with distributed systems and micro-services environments.
• Experience with devops practices, CI/CD pipelines, Observability tools and development workflows.

What We Offer:

• Our product impacts millions of users around the world  providing alternative transport solutions that are more: efficient and accessible, changing cities to make them greener.
• Competitive compensation package which includes base salary and stock options.
• Health insurance with a discount for family members.
• Hybrid work and a lovely office situated in the heart of TLV, at Midtown close to the light rail and Israel Railways.
• Career development and growth opportunities.
• Other perks: Freefit and other sports lessons ,10bis/Cibus - you choose!, happy hours, team events, communities and many more benefits .

Founded in 2012, Via pioneered the TransitTech category by using new technologies to develop public mobility systems — optimizing networks of buses, shuttles, wheelchair accessible vehicles, school buses, autonomous vehicles, and electric vehicles around the globe. 

Building the world's most efficient, equitable, and sustainable transportation network for all passengers — including those with limited mobility, those without smartphones, and unbanked populations — Via works with its partners to lower the costs of public transit while providing transportation options that rival the convenience of a personal car while reducing environmental impact.

At the intersection of transportation and technology, Via is a visionary market leader that combines software innovation with sophisticated service design and operational expertise to fundamentally improve the way the world moves, providing technology in 650 communities and more than 35 countries and counting.

We are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If you’re excited about this role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles. All backgrounds, identities, and voices are welcomed and celebrated at Via.

Ready to join the ride? 

Via is an equal opportunity employer.