Devops Team Lead

Devops Team Lead

Were creating a healthier web where communities thrive.

OpenWeb is on a mission to increase the quality of conversations online. We build technologies that create thriving and engaged communities reduce toxicity and increase safety improving the quality of civil discourse and supporting independent journalism. Today OpenWeb works with more than 5000 top-tier publishers (including News Corp Yahoo CBS Fox News Hearst Refinery 29 and more) and hosts 150 million monthly active users.

Founded in 2015 OpenWeb has over 220 employees between New York City London Paris San Diego Toronto and Tel Aviv. We are backed by world-class investors including Georgian Insight Partners Index Ventures AltaIR Capital and more. Were crafting technology that brings people together and fosters healthy discussion. It starts with us. Are you in

What Youll Do:

• Lead mentor and grow a lean DevOps team; set direction and align roadmap with company goals and engineering needs.
• Own the teams strategy execution and delivery standards; foster collaboration with peer managers and cross-functional teams.
• Design provision and optimize AWS infrastructure for scalability reliability and performance.
• Build and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines IaC monitoring and incident response practices.
• Partner closely with engineering from design through post-deployment ensuring observability resilience and smooth releases.
• Balance velocity with cost efficiency and security best practices (governance access backups compliance).
• Our Stack:
• SCM - Github
• CI and CD - CircleCI Github actions.
• Cloud providers - AWS small portion on GCP
• Kubernetes on EKS
• Datastores and processing - MySQL PostgreSQL OpenSearch Redis Kafka AWS SQS RabbitMQ
• Application stack - Go Ruby NodeJS Typescript JavaScript React Python

What Youll Bring:

• 5 years of hands-on experience as DevOps Engineer with end-to-end ownership of planning maintenance availability reliability (SLA/SLO) incident response and on-call.
• Proven expertise in Kubernetes in production scale environment - A Must
• Proven expertise working with AWS cloud infrastructure - storage compute relational and NoSQL database services - A Must
• Build and lead CI/CD pipelines and release processes.
• Deep understanding of modern web architectures: APIs microservices observability scalability.
• Experience with monitoring & alerting tools and practices (logging metrics tracing).
• Strong Linux shell scripting networking and storage fundamentals; fast production debugging.
• Experience with managing multiple projects simultaneously while maintaining a keen eye on delivery timelines and quality.
• Collaborative DevOps expert with strong communication and leadership skills aligning engineering teams and peer managers to deliver scalable reliable systems.

Nice to have:

• Programming experience with Go Python TypeScript.
• Infra roadmap ownership budgeting and vendor management.
• Security/compliance background (IAM policies firewall networking best practices).