DevOps Lead

Job Description
About Us
HiBob helps modern, mid-size businesses transform the way they manage people, giving HR and managers all they need to connect, engage, develop, and retain top talent. Since 2015, we've achieved consecutive triple-digit year-over-year growth, all backed by our amazing team of Bobbers from across the globe, making us the choice HRIS of over 4000 midsize and multinational companies.
Our HR platform is intuitive, data-driven, and built for the way people work today: globally, remotely, and collaboratively.
Come and be you with us
Being a Bobber is all about being you. We want you to bring all parts of yourself to work, giving you the freedom and confidence to be the best you and do your best work. If that's bubbly, shy, precise, funny, bold, kind, honest, brilliant, or anything in between, we're waiting with open arms. Come join us.
As a DevOps Lead, this will be a player-coach role. You will manage and mentor two DevOps engineers while spending 60-80% of your time hands-on designing, building, and operating production systems.
You will be deeply involved in cloud infrastructure, Kubernetes, CI/CD, GitOps, observability, and internal developer platforms, with a strong focus on developer enablement and operational excellence. This role is ideal for a senior DevOps engineer who wants to lead without giving up deep technical ownership.
Job Requirements
Requirements
Requirements are often considered a measure of how equipped you are to do the job, but sometimes, they aren't the only factor. If you don't have nearly enough experience, or not all the skills, we'd still like to hear from you. This could be the perfect fit for you and us.

• 7+ years of experience as a DevOps / Platform Engineer
• 2+ years of experience leading or mentoring engineers (formal or informal)
• Strong hands-on experience with AWS or a similar public cloud
• Proven experience running Kubernetes in production, including Helm
• Strong experience with CI/CD and GitOps (GitHub Actions, ArgoCD)
• Solid background in Infrastructure as Code (Terraform; Crossplane is a plus)
• Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure, networking, and security
• Experience working in SaaS, production-heavy, multi-team environments

Strong Advantages

• Experience to AI / LLM-based tooling or intelligent automation in DevOps
• Experience with the Argo ecosystem (Workflows, Events, Rollouts)
• Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd, or similar)
• Experience building developer platforms or internal tooling
• Experience with ephemeral environments

Job Responsibilities
What will you do?
Hands-On Technical Ownership (60-80%)

• Design, build, and operate production-grade Kubernetes infrastructure in AWS
• Build and evolve GitOps-based CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions and ArgoCD
• Develop internal DevOps tooling and developer self-service platforms
• Lead implementation of automation and AI-assisted DevOps workflows
• Own systems end-to-end: from design and code to deployment, monitoring, and incidents

Team Leadership & Mentorship

• Lead, mentor, and grow a team of DevOps engineers
• Provide technical guidance through architecture reviews, code reviews, and pairing
• Conduct regular 1:1s, goal-setting, and continuous feedback
• Create a culture of ownership, learning, and operational responsibility

Platform & Operational Excellence

• Own the full delivery lifecycle from source code to production
• Design and maintain monitoring, alerting, and observability using Datadog
• Define and track KPIs, SLOs, and operational metrics
• Improve reliability, security, cost efficiency, and disaster recovery practices
• Participate in incident response and post-incident reviews

Cross-Team Impact

• Work closely with R&D, Security, and Product teams to enable fast and safe delivery
• Lead cross-team DevOps initiatives by doing, not just coordinating
• Translate developer pain points into scalable platform solutions

**Note: We will consider both candidates located in the New York Metro Area who are willing to work in our NYC office 2-3 days a week (Tuesday - Thursday) OR Remote based EST Timezone**
Base salaries for this role range from $180,000 - $240,000 per year.
Benefits
Join our village
HiBob is a village filled with amazing people and we're especially proud of that. It's a place where Bobbers can be themselves. We're about fun, dreams, hopes and ambition, just as much as we are about precision, growth, and top performance. Becoming a Bobber means you'll receive competitive compensation, benefits, and pre-IPO equity alongside all of this:

• Stock options at a high-growth unicorn startup
• 100% subsidized medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees
• 401(k) with a 3% company match starting from Day 1
• Hybrid working model for bobbers in the NY metro area
• Work from home allowance to get your home office set up!
• Temporary remote work-from-anywhere in the world for up to 2 months after 6 months of employment
• Annual Headspace subscription and wellness benefits
• Two social impact days per year for volunteering
• Bob balance days - 4 additional days within a calendar year - Enjoy a company-wide long weekend at the beginning of each quarter
• Employee referral program - $2,500 bonus for each successful referral with an additional ambassador bonus
• Fun and frequent social events (in-person and virtual)
• We love birthdays - take the day off and receive a special gift
• Dog-friendly office

If this sounds like something you've been looking for, we'd love to have you. Come on, join our village!