DevOps Team lead

Deel; United States; Remote; GBP 104,000 - 134,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock grant opportunities

Country-based perks and benefits

Office membership with IWG

Job summary

Deel is hiring a DevOps Team Lead to scale our automation-driven infrastructure for a global workforce. You will lead a distributed team of DevOps engineers, partnering with developers, CloudOps, and automation specialists to raise efficiency, scalability, reliability, and observability across Deel's AWS-based architecture.

The role emphasizes on-call readiness, incident response, and governance, security, and cost optimization across environments.

Qualifications

• 5+ years as a DevOps/SRE/Platform engineer experience
• Deep knowledge of AWS multi-account setups and networking
• Hands-on Kubernetes expertise (EKS) and service mesh
• IaC experience with Terraform/CloudFormation/Pulumi/Crossplane
• CI/CD and GitOps experience with GitHub Actions/Jenkins and ArgoCD/Flux

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a global team of DevOps engineers
• Collaborate with developers, CloudOps and automation engineers to improve efficiency, scale, reliability, and observability
• Continually improve CI/CD, IaC, and monitoring
• Own multiple AWS environments including governance, security, and cost optimization
• Own reliability: on-call, incident response, post-mortems, SLOs, disaster recovery
• Build self-service tooling and golden paths for engineers
• Identify bottlenecks and automation opportunities and implement fixes
• Set priorities and report to engineering leadership

Skills

AWS (multi-account)

Kubernetes (EKS)

CI/CD / GitOps

Terraform / IaC

Python / Bash

Tools

ArgoCD

Helm

Crossplane

Job description

Who We Are Is What We Do. Deel is the all-in-one payroll and HR platform for global teams. Our vision is to unlock global opportunity for every person, team, and business. Built for the way the world works today, Deel combines HRIS, payroll, compliance, benefits, performance, and equipment management into one seamless platform. With AI-powered tools and a fully owned payroll infrastructure, Deel supports every worker type in 150+ countries—helping businesses scale smarter, faster, and more compliantly.

Who We Are Is What We Do. Deel is the all-in-one payroll and HR platform for global teams. Our vision is to unlock global opportunity for every person, team, and business. Built for the way the world works today, Deel combines HRIS, payroll, compliance, benefits, performance, and equipment management into one seamless platform. With AI-powered tools and a fully owned payroll infrastructure, Deel supports every worker type in 150+ countries—helping businesses scale smarter, faster, and more compliantly.

Why should you be part of our success story? As the fastest-growing Software as a Service (SaaS) company in history, Deel is transforming how global talent connects with world-class companies – breaking down borders that have traditionally limited both hiring and career opportunities. We're not just building software; we're creating the infrastructure for the future of work, enabling a more diverse and inclusive global economy. In 2024 alone, we paid $11.2 billion to workers in nearly 100 currencies and provided healthcare and benefits to workers in 109 countries—ensuring people get paid and protected, no matter where they are.

Our momentum is reflected in our achievements and customer satisfaction: CNBC Disruptor 50, Forbes Cloud 100, Deloitte Fast 500, and repeated recognition on Y Combinator's top companies list – all while maintaining a 4.83 average rating from 15,000 reviews across G2, Trustpilot, Captera, Apple and Google.

Your experience at Deel will be a career accelerator. At the forefront of the global work revolution, you'll tackle complex challenges that impact millions of people's working lives. With our momentum—backed by a $17.3 billion valuation and $1 B in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR) in just over five years—you'll drive meaningful impact while building expertise that makes you a sought-after leader in the transformation of global work.

We're growing fast in product and customers, and we need a DevOps Team Lead who loves automation and next-gen infrastructure to help us scale.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a global team of DevOps engineers
• Partner with developers, CloudOps and automation engineers to improve efficiency, scale, reliability and observability across Deel's architecture
• Continuously improve CI/CD, IaC and monitoring
• Own multiple AWS environments across accounts, including governance, security (IAM, secrets, compliance) and cost optimization
• Own reliability: on-call, incident response, post-mortems, SLOs, disaster recovery and capacity planning
• Build self-service tooling and golden paths so engineers can work independently, within shared standards
• Identify bottlenecks and automation opportunities, then implement the fixes
• Set priorities and report to engineering leadership

Requirements

• 2+ years managing DevOps/SRE/Platform teams, and 5+ years as a DevOps engineer
• Deep knowledge of AWS - multi-account setups, Managed services ( CloudFront \ RDS \ Elasticache ) including AWS networking skills (VPC, DNS, load balancing, service mesh).
• Deep hands-on Kubernetes expertise (EKS): Cluster design, upgrades and multi-cluster operations, including Service mesh, Crossplane, and Cluster Autoscalers,ingress controllers, network policies, RBAC, and workload security and resource tuning.
• IaC experience (Terraform/CloudFormation/Pulumi/Crossplane)
• CI/CD and GitOps experience (GitHub Actions/Jenkins, ArgoCD/Flux, Helm)
• Python, Node.js or Bash scripting
• Database and messaging experience (PostgreSQL, Redis, RabbitMQ)
• Observability experience (Prometheus Stack , Coralogix/DataDog OpenTelemetry).
• Security and compliance experience (SOC 2/ISO)
• Production experience with uptime, DR and incident troubleshooting
• Clear communication and a strong sense of ownership

Nice to have:

Go, multi-cloud, FinOps, experience scaling teams across time zones

Total Rewards

• Our salary range reflects gross base salary. For commercial roles with commission eligibility, this figure represents On-Target Earnings (OTE), inclusive of base salary and target commission.
• Salary ranges are quoted in USD as a consistent global reference. Your offer will be localized to your country's currency using a market-aligned conversion.
• Final pay is based on objective, job-related criteria including experience, skills, and location.
• We don't ask about salary history. Offers are based on the role and what you bring to it.

Some things you'll enjoy

• Stock grant opportunities dependent on your role, employment status and location
• Additional perks and benefits based on your employment status and country
• Optional flexible working office membership, with IWG

At Deel, we're an equal-opportunity employer that values diversity and positively encourage applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates regardless of race, religion, sex, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, pregnancy or maternity or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

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