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Lead DevOps Engineer
£80,000 - 80,000
Intellectual Property Office
Cardiff Road, Duffryn
£80,000 - 80,000
Requirements
Must:
- Strong understanding of DevOps principles and experience in a DevOps or iterative development culture.
- Excellent knowledge and proven experience implementing continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) processes and tools, including pipeline design and administration.
- Experience with automated testing and embedding this in CI/CD pipelines.
- Demonstrable experience in service support, including troubleshooting and incident resolution.
- Experience in identification and tracking of risks and issues.
- Excellent communication skills with experience in knowledge sharing and mentoring junior team members.
- Experience in leading DevOps expertise and decision-making across the software delivery lifecycle.
- Experience in identifying and selecting appropriate DevOps technical solutions based on user needs and business requirements.
- Substantial experience in administration and configuration of Azure DevOps Pipelines (preferred), GitHub Actions, or other CI/CD orchestration tools.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code, such as Terraform.
- Experience deploying workloads to and consuming cloud platform resources (Microsoft Azure preferred).
- Substantial experience supporting the build and deployment of, or coding in one or more of the following or equivalent: Python, .Net Core / C#, NextJs / Node.
- Substantial experience in software development processes and tools, with development or scripting experience in one or more: Python, Bash, PowerShell.
- Experience in containerization technologies and platforms such as Docker, AKS, or Azure container services (e.g., Azure App Services, Azure Functions, Azure Logic Apps, Azure Container Registry).
- Experience managing and supporting distributed source code repositories including Git.
Responsibilities
- Provide hands-on technical leadership and guidance through coaching and mentoring.
- Lead the sharing of knowledge and good practices within the team.
- Act as a technical product owner, developing medium to long-term strategies for product lines.
- Work in one or many cross-functional teams to lead DevOps expertise and decision-making across the software delivery lifecycle.
- Produce and assure DevOps technical designs based on business needs, providing justification for decision-making in chosen technical designs.
- Provide deep DevOps technical expertise and leadership to project delivery teams, identifying and selecting appropriate DevOps technical solutions.
- Play an integral part in the DevOps Community of Practice, sharing expertise to build the overall capability of the team.
- Analyze the impact of DevOps technical choices on business processes.
- Enable the reuse of patterns, tools, and components across the DevOps profession.
- Assure that DevOps technical solutions follow all agreed processes and best practices, especially around security and governance.
- Mentor one or more DevOps Engineers, supporting their professional development and guiding them in key decision-making.
- Lead in developing, implementing, enhancing, and managing technical DevOps practices across the organization.
- Collaborate with the broader DevOps and Architecture community to ensure alignment with target architectures and technology roadmaps.
- Contribute to the overall technology strategy and roadmap for projects and IT initiatives.
- Engage with stakeholders, providing direction and challenge to proposals impacting DevOps principles.
- Contribute to decisions in a collaborative environment, including estimations, product planning, and requirement creation.
- Apply a continuous improvement mindset to identify opportunities to improve processes and ways of working.
- Engage with leads across IT to drive strategic vision and collaborate on wider initiatives.
- Conduct horizon scanning and continuous research on emerging DevOps principles and best practices.
Description
We are excited to announce an opportunity for a Lead DevOps Engineer within our Platform Engineering group, as we embark on our IPO digital transformation journey. In this role, you will collaborate with an established team to turn innovative ideas into customer value using a range of technologies and delivery platforms. Our Newport office serves as the primary location, and we embrace a hybrid working model, encouraging at least 20% of your time to be spent onsite. Join us in an organization that values individual contributions and supports professional development.
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