We're building the security infrastructure layer from the ground up, and we're looking for a Senior DevOps Engineer to own it end to end. You'll be one of the first infrastructure hires on the core team - designing and building our AWS/Kubernetes production environment from scratch, setting the standards the rest of engineering will build on, and making the architectural calls yourself rather than inheriting someone else's.
What you'll do
- Own our cloud infrastructure end to end — design, build, and operate production AWS/Kubernetes environments from the ground up
- Build CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows that let a small, fast team ship safely and often
- Define the IaC foundation (Terraform, Helm) and the DevOps/SRE standards, tooling, and practices the organization will grow into
- Build security into the infrastructure by default — secrets management, hardened workloads, least-privilege access, and the groundwork for SOC 2 and customer security reviews
- Drive observability, reliability, and performance across a modern microservices stack — you define what "healthy" means and how we'll know
- Partner directly with engineering and the founders on architecture and technology decisions
What we're looking for
- 5-7 years of hands-on DevOps/Infrastructure experience in cloud-native production environments
- Deep experience with AWS (or GCP/Azure) — you've made the architecture decisions, not just executed them
- Strong production Kubernetes experience at scale, including the failure modes
- Expert-level IaC — Terraform, Helm — with a track record of building a standardized, maintainable foundation
- Strong CI/CD and automation background; you treat infrastructure as a product
- Proven experience building infrastructure from scratch, ideally in an early-stage startup — comfortable with ambiguity and with owning decisions without an existing playbook
- Security-minded by instinct: secrets, identity, network segmentation, supply-chain hygiene, and compliance readiness are things you've actually implemented
Nice to have
- Experience in a cybersecurity company or working closely with security teams
- Experience achieving SOC 2 / ISO 27001 readiness
- MLOps — infrastructure for ML workloads, GPU environments, and model deployment pipelines
- Multi-tenant SaaS and cloud cost optimization (FinOps)
Skills Required
- 5-7 years of hands-on DevOps or infrastructure experience in cloud-native production environments
- Deep experience with AWS, GCP, or Azure, including making cloud architecture decisions
- Strong production Kubernetes experience at scale, including understanding failure modes
- Expert-level Infrastructure as Code experience with Terraform and Helm
- Strong CI/CD and infrastructure automation experience
- Experience building infrastructure from scratch, ideally in an early-stage startup
- Experience implementing secrets management, identity, network segmentation, supply-chain security, and compliance readiness
- Experience in a cybersecurity company or working closely with security teams
- Experience achieving SOC 2 or ISO 27001 readiness
- MLOps experience, including ML workloads, GPU environments, and model deployment pipelines
- Experience with multi-tenant SaaS and cloud cost optimization or FinOps
What We Do
Team8 is a global venture group with deep domain expertise that creates companies and invests in companies specializing in enterprise technologies, cyber, AI, fintech and digital health. Leveraging an in-house, multi-disciplinary team of company-builders integrated with a dedicated community of C-level executives and thought leaders, Team8’s model is designed to outline big problems, ideate solutions, and help accelerate success through technology, market fit and talent acquisition. Team8’s leadership team represents serial entrepreneurs, industry pioneers and the former leadership of Israel’s elite tech and intelligence Unit 8200. Founded in 2014, Team8 is backed by global companies including Microsoft, Walmart, Cisco, Barclays and Moody’s, among others. To learn more about Team8 visit www.team8.vc
