Platform Engineering Team Leader

Israel - Raanana · 5+ years experience · Hybrid · Posted Oct 20, 2026

At a glance

NICE Actimize is the largest and broadest provider of financial crime, risk and compliance solutions for regional and global financial institutions, as well as government regulators. Consistently ranked as number one in the space, NICE Actimize experts apply innovative technology to protect institutions and safeguard consumers’ and investors’ assets by identifying financial crime, preventing fraud and providing regulatory compliance.

We are looking for a highly motivated Group Leader - Platform Engineering to lead the evolution of the cloud platform that powers NICE Actimize SaaS offerings.
This role combines people leadership, hands-on technical leadership and platform strategy.
You will lead a multidisciplinary engineering organization responsible for DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, cloud infrastructure, CI/CD, developer experience, security enablement, databases and observability.

Define and execute the Platform Engineering vision and roadmap.
Build, lead and grow a high-performing team of DevOps, SRE, Infrastructure and Platform Engineers.
Drive engineering excellence, operational maturity and continuous improvement.
Establish platform standards, governance models and engineering best practices.
Act as a senior technical leader and mentor across multiple engineering organizations.
Own the cloud infrastructure strategy across AWS environments.
Lead modernization initiatives around Kubernetes, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code and self-service platforms.
Drive platform scalability, resiliency, security and cost optimization.
Establish golden paths that simplify infrastructure consumption for development teams.
Own enterprise CI/CD platforms, deployment workflows and release engineering practices.

B.Sc. in Computer Science, Engineering or a related field.
5+ years of leadership experience managing engineering teams.
8+ years of hands-on experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, Cloud Infrastructure or Software Engineering.
Proven experience leading large-scale cloud-native SaaS environments.
Strong AWS expertise and strong understanding of cloud architecture patterns.
Deep understanding of Kubernetes, containers and distributed systems.
Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform, OpenTofu, CDK, CloudFormation or Helm.
Strong experience designing and operating CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, Jenkins, GitLab, Azure DevOps or ArgoCD.
Strong understanding of observability platforms, reliability engineering and production operations.
Experience driving cross-functional initiatives across multiple organizations.