Team Lead DevOps & IT (mfd)

This is us

At straiv were an ambitious team with diverse backgrounds all working towards the same goalhelping hotels create seamless guest experiences. Were already working with 3000 hotels in 29 countries and were just getting started. If youre up for the ride wed love to have you on board!

About the role

Were looking for a Team Lead DevOps & IT (m/f/d) to play a key role in shaping the foundation of our next-generation hospitality platform.

In this role youll lead a small but impactful team responsible for infrastructure cloud and IT operations. Youll guide straivs transition to a scalable cloud-based architecture ensuring reliability performance and security across all systems while keeping our current platform stable and efficient.

Youll work hand in hand with our Head of Product and Innovation and a talented group of engineers to enable product innovation through robust infrastructure modern DevOps practices and forward-thinking system design.

Your Mission

• Lead and mentor the DevOps and IT team driving collaboration technical excellence and a culture of accountability.

• Architect and evolve our infrastructure to ensure scalability reliability and high availability across environments.

• Design scalable SaaS software architecture in close collaboration with Engineering and Product.

• Drive automation across deployment monitoring and maintenance processes.

• Enhance and maintain our CI/CD pipelines observability stack and system monitoring.

• Oversee IT operations ensuring secure efficient management of systems identity and access.

• Champion best practices in cloud security cost optimization and operational efficiency.

• Enable innovation through modern DevOps methodologies and cloud-native approaches that empower fast reliable delivery.

What You Bring

• 8 years of experience in DevOps Infrastructure or Cloud Engineering with 3 years in a leadership or team lead capacity.

• Proven expertise in AWS cloud architecture automation and operations.

• Strong experience with microservices-based architectures infrastructure-as-code (Terraform CloudFormation Ansible) CI/CD pipelines Python and Bash scripting.

• Solid background in software architecture and design for scalable SaaS systems.

• Hands-on knowledge with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes or ECS)

• Deep understanding of networking monitoring observability and security practices.

• Familiarity with IT operations including endpoint management internal tools and identity/access management.

• A problem-solver and systems thinker with strong communication and leadership skills.

• Fluent in English (German is a plus).

We value different backgrounds and are happy to receive your application even if the above points do not completely match your profile.

Why straiv

• Play a pivotal role in scaling our SaaS platform and enabling next-level product innovation.

• Shape the evolution of our cloud infrastructure and IT foundation for years to come.

• Hybrid working model (3 days in office) and flexible working hours

• Regular team events (Christmas Summer Wasen party other small celebrations)

• A modern office with free parking spaces

• 50 monthly benefit in kind (store vouchers)

• 50 monthly kindergarten allowance per child

• 29 monthly public transport subsidy

• Corporate discounts

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