Head of Backend Infrastructure, DevOps & IT
Autobrains
Software Engineering, Other Engineering, IT
Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel
Posted on Dec 25, 2025
Description
We are looking for a hands-on Head of Backend Infrastructure, DevOps & IT to lead our backend platforms, data infrastructure, DevOps practices, and internal IT operations. This role is critical to enabling large-scale training and validation of state-of-the-art autonomous driving systems.
Responsibilities
- Lead backend infrastructure, DevOps, and IT functions end-to-end
- Build scalable services to manage and provision large volumes of visual and multimodal data
- Design, develop, and operate robust cloud and on-prem infrastructure
- Own DevOps practices: CI/CD, monitoring, alerting, reliability, security, and cost optimization
- Manage internal IT systems, access control, networking, endpoints, and vendors
- Partner with AI and algorithm teams to support ML training and validation workflows
- Drive selection and adoption of new AI technologies, databases, DevOps tools, and third-party services
- Define and enforce best practices for scalability, availability, and security
- Lead and mentor backend, DevOps, and IT engineers
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in backend, infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering
- Proven experience leading backend, DevOps, and IT teams or functions
- Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS / GCP / Azure) and hybrid or on-prem environments
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, containerized environments, and infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation)
- Solid experience with CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, and production operations
- Experience managing corporate IT environments and vendors
- Strong understanding of distributed systems, databases (SQL & NoSQL), and storage technologies
- Experience supporting AI/ML workloads and data-intensive systems – strong advantage
- Strong ownership, leadership, and communication skills