DevOps Team Lead Full Time

Job Purpose:

The DevOps team is expected to design and build infrastructure used by development teams to support software product release cycles. The Devops team also act as the go-to team for cross platform problems and IT system setups.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

• Develop and improve our Continuous Deployment and Integration pipeline
• Collaborate across engineering and the wider business to improve integration and release processes
• Work closely with senior members of the Engineering team to design and implement technical solutions to support core product development and deployment
• Develop and maintain internal engineering services like Jira, Jenkins, Sonatype Nexus, Kubernetes and Azure deployment pipelines
• Managing a small Devops team
• Code reviewing CI/CD pipeline code
• Creating for new services and supporting product teams to enable adoption of new technologies

Essential Skills and Experience

Essential:

• Linux knowledge and good bash scripting skills
• Basic Windows and Active Directory knowledge for authentication along with power shell
• Good debugging and problem-solving abilities
• Experience with administering CI/CD tools, such as Jenkins, version control systems like GIT, Jira, Trivy, Sonarqube and, Nexus
• Docker or Kubernetes container deployment and administration
• Strong understanding of Python
• Good understanding of networking principles
• Leadership experience

Desirable:

• Ansible
• Azure
• Cisco CCNA Equivalent Knowledge
• Helm Charts

Package & discretionary benefits:

• 25 days annual leave plus an additional 2 days after 2 years’ service
• 5 days additional holiday purchase available
• Private medical insurance
• Heath cashback plan with Healthshield
• Pension scheme
• Life cover 4 x salary
• Season ticket loan
• Salary exchange benefits (ride2work, pension)
• Subsidised gym membership
• Employee referral scheme

Role will be subject to an employment screening process and will require security clearance.

Tagged as: development, devops, linux, python