Head Infrastructure jobs in Israel

• Lead, mentor, and manage a multidisciplinary team of game designers, UI artists, and level designers.
• Own the creative vision and gameplay experience across all game projects.
• Translate high-level business goals into innovative, data-driven game design strategies.
• Guide the development of game mechanics, systems, level progression, economy, and player engagement loops.
• Ensure design consistency, high quality, and player-centric thinking throughout development.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineering, art, product, and monetization teams.
• Stay ahead of market trends, genres, and competitor analysis to drive innovation.

• 5+ years of experience managing game design teams.
• Strong background in game design, gameplay mechanics, and level design.
• Proven track record of designing and delivering commercially successful games.
• Deep understanding of player psychology, engagement metrics, and game economy.
• Excellent leadership, mentoring, and communication skills.
• Business-oriented mindset with the ability to balance creativity with strategic goals.
• Experience working in multi-disciplinary teams with artists, developers, and product owners.
• Passion for games and a deep knowledge of multiple game genres and platforms.

• Relocation support is not available for this position.
• Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position

This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English.

The role:

An operations-first engineer with deep expertise in running, scaling, automating, and monitoring streaming infrastructure like Kafka and RabbitMQ.

What you will do…

• Automate Deployment and Operation Oversee deployment of Kafka and RabbitMQ clusters (including Confluent Cloud & CFK). Build automation pipelines to ensure repeatability and resiliency across environments.
• Monitor and Support Production Systems Own production stability of global Kafka clusters. Handle on-call rotations, incident management, troubleshooting, and scaling challenges.
• Improve Infrastructure Observability Build and maintain observability systems: dashboards, alerting pipelines, metrics collection (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.).
• Optimize System Performance Collaborate with peers on benchmarking and optimization initiatives. Work on tuning Kafka brokers, cluster configurations, and runtime parameters.
• Provide Developer Support and Training (Infra-focused) Help developers configure topics, quotas, and consumers appropriately. Train service owners to interpret monitoring data and avoid pitfalls.
• Develop and Maintain Infrastructure Contribute to building infrastructure tools and scripts (IaC, Helm charts, etc.) that make provisioning and managing clusters reliable and efficient.
• Secure Infrastructure Access Configure and maintain secure access patterns across streaming infrastructure, ensuring proper authentication and role-based access controls are enforced for both developers and services.

What we expect…

• 8+ years of experience in DevOps , SRE , or Infrastructure Engineering roles.
• Deep hands-on Kafka experience , including deploying, maintaining, scaling, and monitoring clusters.
• Experience with RabbitMQ .
• Extensive experience with Docker , Kubernetes , Helm, and GitOps-style deployments.
• Infrastructure as Code experience (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.).
• Strong skills in scripting and automation (Python, Bash, etc.).
• Familiarity with Confluent Cloud , Confluent for Kubernetes , and similar tools.
• Solid understanding of authentication and authorization mechanisms in distributed systems.
• Production support mindset – with proven troubleshooting and incident resolution history.
• Collaboration and communication skills – especially with dev teams depending on platform support.
• Experience with Istio Service Mesh (bonus).
• Experience with GovCloud (bonus).

• Mentorship and leadership experience in infrastructure or SRE teams.
• Contributions to automation or monitoring open-source tooling.
• Active participant in SRE or DevOps communities.
• Conference speaker or internal tech trainer.
• Technical writing about infrastructure automation or reliability.

• Designing, building, and maintaining our automation infrastructure for our suite of products, ensuring they meet the highest standards of quality and functionality.
• Coaching and mentoring team members on best practices for automation, fostering an environment of learning and continuous improvement.
• Interact, lead technical discussions with other team members, and collaborate to solve complex issues.

• Strong automation testing experience, using Javascript for frontend and backend.
• Hands-on experience in automation Infrastructure development.
• Experience with source control systems, preferably Git/GitHub.
• Strong knowledge of software QA and testing methodologies (Component/Integration/Contract/Unit/etc.)
• Experience working on SaaS Products using cloud infra (AWS/Azure).
• Experience in writing automation tests for RESTful APIs and microservices, and knowledge of API testing tools such as Postman or similar.
• Experience in developing and executing automated tests using automation tools such as Playwright/Cucumber (Playwright preferred).
• Ability to work on multiple projects under tight deadlines, Self-learner, and independent executor.
• BSc in Computer Science or equivalent.

• Experience with usage/developing CI/CD infrastructure for running different types of automation tests (experience with tools such as Docker, GitHub Actions, or Jenkins).
• General knowledge of databases (MySQL, Redis, PostgreSQL).
• Experience in writing automation tests for SW in Linux environments.
• Experience with OOO language (Java/C#).

• Relocation support is not available for this position.
• Work visa/immigration sponsorship is not available for this position

This position requires the incumbent to have a sufficient knowledge of English to have professional verbal and written exchanges in this language since the performance of the duties related to this position requires frequent and regular communication with colleagues and partners located worldwide and whose common language is English.