Engineering Team Lead, Infrastructure

Role Summary -

Enthusiastic About Infrastructure & Cloud? Ready to take your career to the next level?

Meal Ticket is seeking an experienced engineering infrastructure leader with kick-ass skills and a burning desire to take us to the next level!

Meal Ticket is a rapidly growing cloud-based SaaS company for the food & beverage hospitality industry.

Our product is managed and developed in Raanana, Israel, and our headquarters is based in the USA, with a globally spread client base.

Our tech stack is mainly hosted on Azure using tools like Redis, various queuing systems, k8s,  VMSS, app services, MSSQL and MYSQL. Our applications are written with C# using .net framework & .net core. 

 Why Meal Ticket? 

• Working at Meal Ticket means thriving from collaboration, teamwork, and mutual success. 
• Be part of a unique and innovative startup transforming the food and beverage industry.
• Work with cutting-edge technologies at a high scale.
• Enjoy continuous learning and personal development.
• Benefit from a collaborative and inclusive work environment.

What you will do -

• Lead a team of DevOps engineers and applicative developers, providing technical guidance and mentorship.
• Oversee the team’s tasks including planning, prioritization, and execution.
• Design, develop, and maintain infrastructure as code using Terraform.
• Oversee database administration tasks, ensuring performance, reliability, and availability. 
• Implement best practices for security, compliance, and operational excellence.
• Identifying and troubleshooting issues within the Marketman infrastructure, while suggesting and implementing improvements.
• Collaborating effectively with cross-functional teams (team leads, tech leads, developers, product owners, etc.) to ensure high-quality software releases.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines (github actions, azure devops), automation, and monitoring to enhance operational efficiency.
• Work with different technologies and tools, including: Azure Cloud, K8S, Git actions, MSSQL, MySQL, Mongo, .net supporting infrastructure, DataDog, and other internal tools.
• Thinking outside the box, continuously pushing for improvements and optimizations.

What you will bring - 

• 6 years of proven experience architecting, building and maintaining scalable and highly available production systems in the cloud.
• Experience with containerizing services and managing containerized deployments.
• Expertise in Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) best practices.
• Hands-on experience with Azure Cloud, including networking, security, and cost management.
• Solid understanding of CI/CD pipelines, automation, and deployment strategies.
• Experience leading teams, managing projects, and driving technical initiatives.
• Strong knowledge of database administration, including performance tuning and backup strategies.
• Experience with FinOps practices to optimize cloud spend and efficiency.
• Ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams and communicate complex technical concepts effectively.
• A problem-solving mindset, ownership mentality, and a passion for innovation.
• Solid understanding of web development fundamentals.
• Good communication skills.
• Self-motivated, detail-oriented, and organized.
• A team player with strong social and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.

How we feel about Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging -

Meal Ticket is committed to bringing together humans from different backgrounds and perspectives, providing employees with a safe and welcoming work environment free of discrimination and harassment. We strive to create a diverse & inclusive environment where everyone can thrive, feel a sense of belonging, and do impactful work together. 

As an equal opportunity employer, we prohibit any unlawful discrimination against a job applicant on the basis of their race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, family or parental status, disability*, age, veteran status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. We respect the laws enforced by the EEOC and are dedicated to going above and beyond in fostering diversity across our workplace. 

*Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodation. A reasonable accommodation is a change in the way things are normally done which will ensure an equal employment opportunity without imposing undue hardship on Meal Ticket. Please inform our HR Team (HR@mealticket.com) if you need any assistance completing any forms or to otherwise participate in our application or interview process.