DevOps Team Lead

2 Months ago • All levels
Devops

Job Description

Powtoon is seeking a DevOps Team Lead to maintain, optimize, and scale their cloud infrastructure. This role involves leading a global DevOps team, collaborating with R&D teams, and ensuring seamless deployment, performance, and security of systems. Responsibilities include guiding architectural decisions, driving automation and observability, and enabling development velocity. The Team Lead will own and evolve cloud infrastructure, manage Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform, and maintain Kubernetes-based workloads. They will also improve system observability, alerting, and incident response, collaborate with teams for feature rollouts and platform reliability, ensure security best practices, and evaluate new technologies.
Good To Have:
  • Drive automation improvements
  • Evaluate and introduce new tools
Must Have:
  • Lead and manage a global DevOps team
  • Own and evolve cloud infrastructure (AWS)
  • Manage IaC using Terraform
  • Maintain and scale Kubernetes workloads
  • Improve system observability and incident response
  • Ensure security best practices
  • Collaborate with engineering teams

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About Powtoon

Powtoon is a globally recognized SaaS company transforming how organizations communicate visually. With over 100 million users worldwide and customers ranging from startups to Fortune 500 enterprises, our platform makes it easy to create engaging videos and animations for business, education, and beyond.

We’re on a mission to redefine visual communication - and to do that, we're scaling our infrastructure and operations to support rapid product innovation, global demand, and cutting-edge AI capabilities. We're seeking a DevOps Team Lead to help us get there.

About the Role

As DevOps Team Lead at Powtoon, you’ll play a pivotal role in maintaining, optimizing and scaling our cloud infrastructure. You’ll lead a small but mighty global DevOps team (currently 2 engineers), collaborate closely with R&D teams across Tel Aviv, Ukraine, and South America, and ensure the seamless deployment, performance, and security of our systems.

You’ll be both strategic and hands-on - guiding architectural decisions, driving automation and observability improvements, and enabling development velocity across the company.

Key Responsibilities

  • Lead and manage a globally distributed DevOps team, setting priorities and ensuring high-quality delivery at pace.
  • Own and evolve our cloud infrastructure (primarily AWS), focusing on scalability, performance, and cost-efficiency.
  • Manage IaC using Terraform (mainly), while continuously improving our CI/CD pipelines and environments.
  • Maintain and scale our Kubernetes-based workloads and services.
  • Improve system observability, alerting, and incident response processes.
  • Collaborate with engineering and product teams to support new feature rollouts, infrastructure changes, and platform reliability goals.
  • Ensure security best practices across infrastructure and deployments.
  • Evaluate and introduce new tools and technologies to stay ahead of the curve.

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