Join us as we explore what it feels like to step out of the industry for seven months and walk back into a job that runs at a completely different speed! In this episode, Bat Hen Yosefov, DevOps Group Manager at Payoneer, shares how she returned from maternity leave straight into the AI agent era — where people now expect things in hours, not days or weeks — and why she calls it the coolest leave she's ever had.

Discover why she insists self-service "is service, it's not always self," the story of a Solution Engineer who told Claude to fix a secrets alert and watched it quietly wipe the pipeline ("he doesn't even know what a pipeline is"), and why she believes knowing the right questions to ask is now the difference between heaven and earth.

Bat Hen Yosefov on LinkedIn - https://il.linkedin.com/in/bat-hen-yosefov

Miki Manor on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikimanor/

Ofir Stein on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ofir-stein/

DevOps Leaders - https://www.linkedin.com/company/devops-leaders-il/posts/?feedView=all

Key takeaways:

• Coming back from a 7-month maternity leave into the AI era is a shock to the system — the pace went from days and weeks to hours, and "they talk to me in hours now"

• A DevOps lead today manages a team of agents alongside developers — the agents genuinely speed up the work, but only if you can keep up with what they produce

• Self-service is a misleading term: "it's service, it's not always self" — some teams wrap it, some hand everything to the developer, and the real platform work is in how you wrap it

• Knowing the right questions to ask — and understanding the answers you get back — is now the difference between heaven and earth, for engineers and for kids learning today

• The platform team's job is shifting toward "letting go" — wrapping quality gates so developers need far less interaction, even though that release work is the less fun part ("I'm DevOps, I'd rather build automation to do it")

• The professional-fear dissonance: pushing developers to lean on you less can feel existential, but the backlog is endless and the same headcount can now deliver far more value, faster

• Hiring has changed: she doesn't expect a candidate to know everything ("not everyone needs to know Kafka") — she asks whether they can learn and work with the material, because something new drops every two days

• Bat Hen's open question for the next guest: how do you build organizational knowledge you can feed your agents — bringing the right information at the right time while it keeps learning and solving tomorrow's problems

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