# SRE / DevOps Lead

**Company:** [April](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/april)
**Location:** Tel Aviv, Israel
**Role:** DevOps / SRE
**Experience:** 7+ years
**Skills:** GCP, Kubernetes, Google Kubernetes Engine, Terraform, CI/CD, Go, Python, Datadog, Okta, Google Workspace, Jamf, Kandji, Postgres, Spanner
**Posted:** 2026-05-20

> Leads a small SRE team while owning the reliability, security, scalability, and delivery infrastructure of a GCP-based platform. The role combines hands-on cloud operations with incident management, compliance support, observability, and corporate IT leadership.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a team of 2 SREs, setting direction across SRE, DevOps, and IT.
- Own the architecture, performance, and reliability of april's GCP-based platform, including Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD, networking, and scale.
- Define and uphold SLOs, infrastructure budgets, on-call priorities, and incident response practices.
- Build and operate the observability stack so engineers can identify and resolve problems proactively.
- Partner with engineering and security on controls, evidence, and audits supporting SOC 2, SOC 1, STIG, and IRS authorization compliance.
- Plan and execute capacity testing, load testing, and game days for tax season.
- Own corporate IT, including identity, Google Workspace, endpoint management, and the company SaaS stack.
- Establish standards for shipping software that is fast, safe, observable, and reversible.

## Requirements
- 7+ years of SRE, DevOps, or platform engineering experience, including at least 1 year leading or managing engineers.
- Hands-on experience running production workloads on GCP, including Kubernetes (GKE) and Terraform at scale.
- Strong programming or scripting fundamentals in Go, Python, or a similar language, with a track record of automation.
- Experience operating in a SOC 2 environment and supporting external audits.
- Experience with regulated workloads such as IRS, financial services, or healthcare, or a demonstrated ability to learn regulated environments deeply.
- Experience building dashboards, alerts, and SLOs in Datadog or an equivalent observability platform.
- Calm, clear incident leadership and a coaching mindset.
- Working knowledge of identity and endpoint tools such as Okta, Google Workspace, Jamf, or Kandji.
- Clear written and spoken English and comfort collaborating across time zones.

## Nice-to-haves
- Experience with the IRS e-file ecosystem, FTI handling, or fintech-grade data residency.
- Experience preparing infrastructure for SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, PCI, SOC 1, or STIG certification.
- FinOps or cloud cost management experience.
- Database operations at scale with Postgres, Spanner, or similar systems.
- Experience establishing or scaling an IT function at a high-growth startup.
- 3+ years of software engineering experience.

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