DevOps Team Lead

About Buildots 

Buildots is revolutionizing the construction industry by introducing advanced AI and Computer Vision technologies into traditional construction processes. The platform seamlessly transforms construction operations into data-rich, digital environments, saving time and minimizing costs.

Our product is already being used on active construction sites in more than ten countries, creating tremendous value for our clients and users.

Buildots is backed by a world-class investment team, comprised of VCs, construction industry leaders, and well-known angel investors

Summary

We are looking for a highly motivated and detail-oriented engineer to join our DevOps team, and help us build and scale Buildots' infrastructure.

This person will actively shape and implement Buildots infrastructure, introduce new technologies and standards, and improve our release pipeline by building the right tools and frameworks for our developers.

Our DevOps Engineer will manage our software production, ensuring stability, scalability, and efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Manage our DTAP environments including troubleshooting and resolving issues as needed
• Continuously improve and evolve our infrastructure and tools to meet the changing needs of our products and teams
• CI/CD Ownership: Design, build, and maintain robust CI/CD pipelines to enable rapid and reliable deployment cycles across multiple services and environments.
• Plan and implement tools to help our company's efficiency and productivity using data-driven decision making
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (including engineering, research, and operations) to identify and prioritize opportunities for process improvements.
• Carry tasks end-to-end, from design to deployment, and take full ownership
• Security & Compliance: Ensure infrastructure and processes adhere to best practices for security, monitoring, and compliance.
• Mentorship & Leadership: Lead by example, mentor team members, and foster a culture of innovation, ownership, and continuous improvement.
• Drive observability initiatives by defining and implementing logging, metrics, and tracing strategies to improve incident response and system understanding.

Must-Have Experience

• Experience in DevOps engineering for at least 3 years 
• 2+ years of experience leading DevOps teams, with proven ability to guide, mentor, and grow engineers. 
• Proven Kubernetes (K8s) expertise: deploying, managing, and scaling workloads in production environments.
• Experience in writing and maintaining CI/CD solutions (ArgoCD & Jenkins are an advantage).
• Extensive experience with cloud computing platforms (e.g. AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Python, or C++
• Experience with IaC such as Terraform, Pulumi, etc.
• Solid understanding of containerization and orchestration tools – Kubernetes, Docker, Helm.
• Strong focus on system observability – experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools like Prometheus, Grafana

Leadership & Collaboration

• Demonstrated success leading DevOps teams for 2+ years, including setting technical direction, hiring, mentoring, and promoting engineering best practices.
• Ability to work closely with R&D teams, architects, and security engineers to align infrastructure with product goals.
• Strong communication skills and bias toward automation and simplification.

Additional Nice-to-Haves

• Prior experience as a software developer (especially backend) is a plus.
• Experience with security best practices and compliance (e.g. SOC2).
• Familiarity with service mesh, GitOps workflows, and zero-downtime deployments.
• Understanding of cost optimization practices in cloud environments.
• Knowledge of event-driven systems and message brokers (Kafka, SQS, RabbitMQ).

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