This is us
At straiv, we’re an ambitious team with diverse backgrounds, all working towards the same goal—helping hotels create seamless guest experiences. We’re already working with 3,000+ hotels in 29 countries, and we’re just getting started. If you’re up for the ride, we’d love to have you on board! 🚀
About the role
We’re looking for a Team Lead DevOps & IT (m/f/d) to play a key role in shaping the foundation of our next-generation hospitality platform.
In this role, you’ll lead a small but impactful team responsible for infrastructure, cloud, and IT operations. You’ll guide straiv’s transition to a scalable, cloud-based architecture, ensuring reliability, performance, and security across all systems — while keeping our current platform stable and efficient.
You’ll work hand in hand with our Head of Product and Innovation and a talented group of engineers to enable product innovation through robust infrastructure, modern DevOps practices, and forward-thinking system design.
Your Mission
* Lead and mentor the DevOps and IT team, driving collaboration, technical excellence, and a culture of accountability.
* Architect and evolve our infrastructure to ensure scalability, reliability, and high availability across environments.
* Design scalable SaaS software architecture in close collaboration with Engineering and Product.
* Drive automation across deployment, monitoring, and maintenance processes.
* Enhance and maintain our CI/CD pipelines, observability stack, and system monitoring.
* Oversee IT operations, ensuring secure, efficient management of systems, identity, and access.
* Champion best practices in cloud security, cost optimization, and operational efficiency.
* Enable innovation through modern DevOps methodologies and cloud-native approaches that empower fast, reliable delivery.
What You Bring
* 8+ years of experience in DevOps, Infrastructure, or Cloud Engineering, with 3+ years in a leadership or team lead capacity .
* Proven expertise in AWS cloud architecture, automation, and operations.
* Strong experience with microservices-based architectures, infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible), CI/CD pipelines, Python and Bash scripting.
* Solid background in software architecture and design for scalable SaaS systems.
* Hands-on knowledge with containerization (Docker) and orchestration (Kubernetes or ECS)
* Deep understanding of networking, monitoring, observability, and security practices .
* Familiarity with IT operations — including endpoint management, internal tools, and identity/access management.
* A problem-solver and systems thinker with strong communication and leadership skills.
* Fluent in English (German is a plus).
We value different backgrounds and are happy to receive your application even if the above points do not completely match your profile.
Why straiv
* Play a pivotal role in scaling our SaaS platform and enabling next-level product innovation.
* Shape the evolution of our cloud infrastructure and IT foundation for years to come.
* Hybrid working model (3 days in office) and flexible working hours
* Regular team events (Christmas, Summer, Wasen party, other small celebrations)
* A modern office with free parking spaces
* 50€ monthly benefit in kind (store vouchers)
* 50€ monthly kindergarten allowance per child
* 29€ monthly public transport subsidy
* Corporate discounts
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