Research & Development
Rehovot, IL (Nova HQ)Role Description
Nova is looking for a DevOps Team Leader to lead and own the DevOps domain of the SW group, with end-to-end responsibility over CI/CD, ALM, and IT infrastructure.
In this role, you will become an integral part of the SW organization, enabling development teams and increasing productivity by partnering with cross-organizational functions. As part of this role, you will hold full accountability for DevOps platforms, infrastructure stability, scalability, and continuous improvement. The role combines hands-on technical leadership, automation, and people management, with a strong focus on operational excellence, collaboration, and delivery.
Responsibilities
What will you be doing:
- Own and lead DevOps, CI/CD, and ALM processes for existing and new products
- Design, implement, and continuously optimize CI/CD pipelines for performance, stability, and visibility
- Lead process automation and continuous improvements using Azure DevOps (on‑prem TFS), Jira, Git‑based tools
- Take full ownership of DevOps IT infrastructure, including servers, virtualization, storage, labs, images, and HPC environments
- Participate in new products and computational product design
- Act as the technical lead and decision owner for DevOps and IT initiatives
- Lead and grow the DevOps team, define clear ownership, and act as Scrum Master
- Support customer deployments and new product implementations
Requirements
- 4+ years of experience as a Team Leader
- 10+ years of experience as a DevOps Engineer
- Strong experience with Azure DevOps (TFS – on premises), Jira, Git, GitLab/GitHub, Artifactory
- Proven experience with CI/CD pipelines (Azure DevOps and/or Jenkins)
- Strong background in Microsoft and Linux infrastructure
- Experience with containers, Kubernetes, and microservices
- Excellent troubleshooting, leadership, and communication skills
- HPC infrastructure experience - Advantages
- PowerShell and/or Bash scripting - Advantages
- Big Data systems (HDFS, Cloudera) - Advantages
- Deep expertise in Azure DevOps - Advantages
That special something you bring
- Brings strong management capabilities by setting clear direction, empowering team members, and effectively balancing people leadership with delivery, ownership, and results
- Strong team player with a hands on approach
- Proactive, independent, and results driven
- Excellent collaboration and leadership skills
- Excellent technical understanding and system level thinking
- High ownership mentality and decision making capability
- Strong troubleshooting skills with a “can do” approach
- Ability to work independently in a dynamic, multi disciplinary environment
- Clear and effective verbal and written communication
- Ability to work with diverse stakeholders and lead technical discussions
Get to know us better:
Nova (NASDAQ: NVMI) is a global company and a leading provider of innovative metrology solutions for process control in semiconductor manufacturing.
With a team of ~1200 people in three R&D centers and 27 field offices, we bring insights into the world’s most advanced industry. We leverage multiple technology fields such as physics, optics, chemistry, and algorithms to develop hardware and software solutions that measure almost every advanced computer chip built in the world.
Nova dives deep into dimensions and layers at the atomic level to extract unique insights and provide our customers with crucial decision-making data, managing critical challenges by providing unique, differentiated solutions.
Our outstanding people-focused and innovative culture means every person at Nova has the power to make an impact and significantly redefine what people can achieve through technology.
Join us if you are
A dreamer and brilliant high aimer who sees the impossible as the starting point and loves working in a multidisciplinary global team to create innovative breakthroughs.
If you need assistance due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected]
