Lead DevOps, Pelico
+ Stock Options
Factory operations management software
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Factory operations management software
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Stock Options
101-200 employees
Company mission
Pelico's mission is to empower factory teams with the agility required to manage daily volatility and deliver products on time, at cost.
Role
Who you are
- Infrastructure & Cloud Expertise: Strong experience designing and operating complex infrastructure on AWS / GCP / Azure (multi-cloud preferred)
- DevOps & Automation Mastery: Deep knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, Terraform, Ansible, GitLab CI, Helm, Kubernetes, containerization, and Infrastructure as Code practices
- Monitoring & Reliability: Expertise with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog) and SRE methodologies
- Security & Compliance: Solid understanding of security best practices, network architecture, and regulatory compliance
- Scripting & Development: Strong proficiency in Bash, Python, or Go for automation and tooling
- Strategic Thinking: Ability to define long-term infrastructure strategies and translate them into actionable plans
- Leadership & Mentoring: Proven experience leading teams, growing talent, and fostering a strong DevOps culture
- Problem-Solving & Ownership: Hands-on attitude to tackle incidents and complex technical challenges
- Collaboration & Communication: Excellent ability to work cross-functionally and communicate effectively with technical & non-technical stakeholders
- Continuous Improvement Mindset: Passion for scaling processes, simplifying complexity, and driving operational excellence
What the job involves
- As Lead DevOps Engineer, you will own Pelico’s infrastructure strategy and execution to support our rapid growth. Your mission: ensure a secure, scalable, and reliable multi-cloud environment while driving automation, performance, and operational excellence. As a hands-on technical leader, you’ll mentor the DevOps team, shape long-term practices and tooling, and tackle critical challenges to deliver a world-class developer experience
- Define Pelico’s DevOps vision, strategy, and multi-year roadmap in alignment with company objectives and product growth
- Lead strategic initiatives to diversify and strengthen the multi-cloud architecture, balancing resilience, cost, and scalability
- Continuously evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends to keep Pelico’s infrastructure state-of-the-art
- Translate strategic priorities into clear, actionable technical roadmaps for the team
- Guarantee 99.9%+ availability of internal and customer-facing environments
- Oversee monitoring, alerting, and incident response frameworks, ensuring fast detection and resolution of critical issues
- Drive infrastructure security & compliance in partnership with the Security team
- Implement and maintain HA/DR strategies to ensure business continuity
- Conduct regular capacity planning to anticipate future needs
- Oversee the design and continuous improvement of fully automated, fast, and secure CI/CD pipelines
- Champion developer productivity by simplifying deployment workflows and building robust self-service tools
- Optimize build, test, and release cycles in close collaboration with Product & Engineering teams
- Lead infrastructure as code (IaC) initiatives (Terraform, Ansible, Helm, Kubernetes) to increase standardization and maintainability
- Foster a culture of automation & operational excellence
- Lead and mentor a team of DevOps engineers, ensuring their professional growth and career development
- Structure the team to balance execution and innovation, empowering engineers to take ownership of their domains
- Conduct regular 1:1s, performance reviews, and coaching sessions to build a high-performing team culture
- Drive knowledge-sharing initiatives and ensure documentation excellence across infrastructure components
- Act as a bridge between engineering squads, security, and IT, ensuring smooth adoption of DevOps best practices
- Collaborate closely with Product and Engineering leads to align infrastructure priorities with product roadmap
- Evangelize DevOps culture across the company, making practices easy to understand, scalable, and impactful
- Communicate complex infrastructure topics to non-technical stakeholders in a clear, structured way
- You will be based in Paris, with English as your working language. We offer a hybrid work arrangement
Application process
- HR screening Interview : 30-45 mins
- Hiring Manager Interview : 1h
- On-line case study : 1h
- On-site or On-line case study presentation : 1h
- Fit Interview : 45 mins
Our take
Due to a volatile supply chain landscape, fluctuating demands and deepening product complexity, factory operations are becoming increasingly difficult to run smoothly and efficiently, which in turn affects their revenue.
Pelico believes that its factory operations SaaS platform is the answer, particularly for factories which are pivoting from mass production to more discrete models with variable products in smaller volumes. By leveraging data analysis and AI modeling, Pelico is able to foresee bottlenecks such as parts shortages, then provide AI-generated recommendations.
The last few years have seen a growing number of startups enter this space as manufacturers feel the supply chain squeeze. Though it’s a highly competitive market, Pelico has grown quite strongly in Europe. Now having secured major funding, the French startup is aiming to expand further while continuing to develop its product.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
48% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Jun 2025
$40m
LATE VC
Nov 2022
$18.5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $58.5m
Company benefits
- Office location in the center of Paris (75003) near Beaubourg
- Smart working policy & Remote flexibility
- Equity (BSPCE) for every pelican
- Premium health coverage: Alan Blue
- Monthly afterworks
Company HQ
Brickell, Miami, FL
Leadership
Tarik Benabdallah
(CEO)Former Deployment strategist at Palantir Technologies. Previously founded was CEO of market research platform Opiquick.
Mamoun Alaoui
(CPO & COO)Former Financial & Actuarial Services Consultant at Sia Partners. Before Pelico they worked in a number of Senior Product Management roles at commerce media startup Criteo.
Jonathan Hickson
(CTO)Has been a Partner and CTO at a number of fast growth startups including Opiquick, Themecloud, and advertising platform MasterCourses.
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