Orca AI

Orca AI is a maritime technology company founded in 2018 that provides AI and computer vision-based solutions to enhance situational awareness and safety in shipping operations. Their key products…

AIAutonomous ShippingComputer VisionFleet ManagementMaritimeSafetySituational AwarenessSustainabilityorca-ai.io

Orca AI

Orca AI is a maritime technology company founded in 2018 that provides AI and computer vision-based solutions to enhance situational awareness and safety in shipping operations. Their key products…

AIAutonomous ShippingComputer VisionFleet ManagementMaritimeSafetySituational AwarenessSustainabilityorca-ai.io

HQLondon, GB

Team Size160

Open Jobs12

Total Funding$111M

Latest Fundraiselast year

TL;DR

Founded: 2018

Headquarters / Base: London-based

Product focus: AI/computer-vision situational awareness for commercial vessels (SeaPod, FleetView)

Fleet footprint (company-reported): 1,200–1,500+ vessels; 80–120M+ nautical miles of data

Recent funding: Series B $72.5M (May 6, 2025); total funding > $111M

Company Overview

Problem Domain

Maritime situational awareness, collision avoidance, and autonomous-navigation enablement for commercial shipping.

Founded

2018

Industry

Maritime Transportation

Tech Stack

Amazon CloudFront

Apache

Cloudflare

Cloudflare CDN

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CrUX Top 50m

DNSSEC

Envoy

Google Cloud CDN

IPv6

Funding Track Record

Series B- 2025-05-06

72,500,000

Reported Series B bringing total funding to over $111M.

Growth / post-Series A top-up- 2024-05-23

23,000,000

Reported as a top-up between Series A and Series B.

Investor Signal

“Brighton Park Capital led Series B; participation from OCV Partners, MizMaa Ventures, Ankona Capital, Hyperlink Ventures and other named investors.”

Join the Team

Devops Team Lead

On-SiteTel Aviv District

On-Site • Tel Aviv District

We are looking for a hands-on DevOps Team Lead to take ownership of our infrastructure, DevOps practices, and automation pipelines. You will be the technical and operational lead for a small but growing DevOps team, driving reliability, scalability, and security across our cloud environments.

In this role, you will split your time between leading and mentoring the team, designing and evolving infrastructure , and implementing solutions .

What You’ll Do

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Lead, mentor, and grow the DevOps team.

Define and enforce DevOps best practices across infrastructure, CI/CD, and security.

Manage the SeaPod Lab environment for developer and test usage.

Operate and evolve the SeaPod Server Linux infrastructure, deployed at scale worldwide, handling complex connectivity and security.

Maintain consistent baselines, update tools, and ensure fleet-wide monitoring and support.

Design, manage, and evolve AWS infrastructure (VPC, IAM, networking, RDS, EKS, etc.).

Operate and upgrade Kubernetes/EKS clusters, manage Helm charts, operators, and custom resources.

Define namespace policies, quotas, and resource allocations.

Drive security, compliance, and cost optimization.

Maintain and enhance GitLab CI pipelines for multiple workloads (Lambda, EKS, EC2, etc.).

Integrate testing, linting, and vulnerability scans into CI/CD workflows.

Build reusable pipeline components for microservices.

Own monitoring and alerting strategies (Grafana, CloudWatch, Coralogix, Prometheus).

Operate and tune PostgreSQL (RDS, Aurora) and manage backups/restores.

Manage distributed tracing. Lead upgrade from Fluentd → OpenTelemetry.

Architect and deploy serverless solutions (Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway).

Integrate with event-driven services (SNS/SQS, Kinesis, RDS Proxy).

Manage IAM roles/policies, secrets, and security posture.

Experience Needed

5+ years of hands-on DevOps, including 2+ years in a leadership or mentoring role .
Strong production experience with AWS services (VPC, RDS, EKS, IAM, Lambda).
Proven track record operating Kubernetes/EKS clusters at scale.
Expertise with Terraform (or similar IaC tools) and GitLab CI/CD (or equivalent).
Solid background in Linux systems administration , ideally managing large distributed fleets.
Practical experience with PostgreSQL in production (replication, tuning, backup/restore).
Hands-on with observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry).
Experience designing and operating secure, compliant environments (SOC2/ISO27001 familiarity a plus).

Shape the team and technical direction in a fast-growing startup, making a real-world impact.
End-to-end ownership of the DevOps function, from infrastructure to processes.
Work on both cloud-native and large-scale distributed Linux systems .
Fun, fast-paced and challenging work environment
Hybrid work model, based in Israel.

Orca AI

Orca AI

TL;DR

Company Overview

Problem Domain

Founded

Industry

Tech Stack

Funding Track Record

Investor Signal

Founders

What we do

Join the Team

Devops Team Lead

Startup jobs. A lot of them.

DevOps Engineer

Machine Learning Engineer

DevOps Engineer

Product Designer

AI Researcher

Frontend Developer

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