Lead DevOps Engineer, HiBob
$180-240k
+ Stock options
More information about location
A modern HR platform powering productivity, engagement, and retention
Open for applications
A modern HR platform powering productivity, engagement, and retention
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$180-240k
+ Stock options
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create a modern work experience that empowers organisations to be remarkable.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- Experience with service mesh technologies (Istio, Linkerd, or similar)
Desirable
- Experience to AI / LLM-based tooling or intelligent automation in DevOps
- Experience with the Argo ecosystem (Workflows, Events, Rollouts)
- Experience building developer platforms or internal tooling
- Experience with ephemeral environments
What the job involves
- As a DevOps Lead, this will be a player-coach role. You will manage and mentor one Senior DevOps Engineer while spending 60–80% of your time hands-on designing, building, and operating production systems
- You will be deeply involved in supporting AI-focused projects such as: automating complex deployment workflows to reduce manual effort and speed up releases, using predictive models to detect system anomalies before they cause downtime, building and maintaining and AI-driven Slack bot that helps developers debug and deploy more efficiently, and more!
- You will also be involved in supporting 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
- 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
Our take
Developing and maintaining talent is a big challenge for companies that are scaling quickly. Hibob are trying to be one of the solutions.
There are an increasing number of startups attracting huge amount of investment and being pushed to scale their business fast, meaning the customer base for Hibob's services is big and growing.
Hibob have attracted high profile customers like Monzo, eToro, and Receipt Bank, which gives them great credibility for selling to other companies.
Hibob's recent acquisition of Cassiopeia - a Workplace Relationships Analytics Startup, will afford companies better insights to improve team communications and support flexible work models. Together, they wish to offer thousands of companies the tools they need to maximize the employee experience in our increasingly digital world.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Sep 2024
$150m
SERIES E
Sep 2023
$150m
LATE VC
Total funding: $715m
Company benefits
- Company share options plan
- Flexible hybrid working model
- Work from home allowance: to get your home office set up how you like it
- Volunteering days: Two days each year to support your community
- Employee referral program paying up to $2,500 for each successful referral
- Work from anywhere: Temporary remote work from anywhere in the world for up to two months (after six months of employment)
- Fun company and team social events (locally and virtually with our global teams)
- Bob Balance Days: A company-wide long weekend at the beginning of each quarter (four additional days of leave)
- Generous annual leave allowance
- Pension scheme or savings plan
- Birthday day off: Take the day off and receive a special gift
- Headspace subscription to help look after your mental health
- Private health coverage
Company values
- Bring me, win as we: When we come together as a global team, we can build something trailblazing. Every Bobber can show up as their authentic self, strengthening the connections in our village and having an exponential impact.
- Build the exceptional: Everyone contributes to building the exceptional at HiBob. We are leading the way in what a functional, flexible, and fun HR platform and mindset looks like.
- We do what we say: We are intentional and take pride in aligning our actions with our words. We deliver today on the promises we made yesterday. We actively use our product and seek to drive best practices.
- Trust and empower each other: Bobbers shine when those around them shine, too. We hire smart people who have the freedom to do their jobs in the best possible way.
- Interact with transparency and openness: Information is a resource to be shared, not a resource to be guarded.
- Grow through what we go through: We need to be agile and adapt. With every challenge and experience we go through, we learn, improve, and remain resilient.
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Israel David
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously SVP of Technology at Kenshoo, VP of IT Business Management at VMware, and VP/GM at 48Upper.
Ronni Zehavi
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously co-founded Team8 and Cotendo. He also spent two years at Akamai Technologies as a Senior VP and GM of the Security Division.
People progressing
Joined HiBob in 2021 as SMB Customer Success Manager and grown to lead the Global SMB Account Manager team in the Customer Growth division, driving scalable growth and success with global customers.
Joined the CX team in 2018 and helped build the SMB CSM team as one of its first members. Has progressed through leadership roles and is now Head of SMB Customer Success, driving adoption & retention.
Joined as a Customer Success Manager in 2022 before moving to our Sales Engineering team after 18 months. Has since been promoted to Senior Sales Engineer, supporting our Partnerships team.
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Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at HiBob
- Our success depends on our people, and we want HiBob to be a workplace where everyone can feel a sense of belonging and thrive. To achieve this, we are committed to being proactive at all levels, ensuring that our workforce reflects the communities in which we live, work, and hire. We are open to all talent. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to neurodiversity, race/ethnicity, colour, national origin, religion, gender, pregnancy, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, disability, genetic information, military service, covered/protected veteran status or any other federal, state or local protected class* (*US only).
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