DevOps (Azure) Lead, Birmingham
- UK nationals or ILR ONLY (no visas)
- Azure expert
- 8+ years experience in development, with at least the last 3 in Azure DevOps
About the Role:
* You MUST already live within an hour’s drive of Birmingham B91 as you will be onsite 3 days per week
* You must be an expert in Azure
* Must have DevOps management/leadership experience
* You must have excellent communication skills
* 3-stage hiring process: initial Culture Fit video call with Group CTO; if this goes well, then a Technical video call with existing DevOps Leads, if this goes well, then a HR Interview most likely also with the CEO (this stage is likely to be face-to-face).
Company Overview:
The company delivers applications and services to assist participants in wholesale energy sector operating and trading energy. Their teams are distributed widely in Australia, Europe, and UK. Team works on more than 17 products, all at different stage of their lifecycle with trading desks operating in Europe and Australia. Energy industry in UK is moving fast with 2 concurrent trends:
* Increase of renewable energy and its unpredictability, operated by increasingly small players, leads to high market volatility. This volatility creates opportunities for energy traders.
* Price cap in UK limits revenue of energy retailers, so they need to widen their capabilities and increase their efficiency to survive
These players rely on some efficient systems to operate. If system fails, domino effect starts that could soon lead to big problems for companies and houses.
Company provides systems to more than 12% of market, which makes it essential player in this global energy market. In order to keep up with market trends (more players, more traders and trades, more volatility), they need to provide best platform, with reliable, scalable, secure and agile foundations. DevOps team owns these foundations and faces following challenges:
* Security while moving to cloud
* Automation thanks to Infrastructure as Code
* Reliability while scaling platform for growing customer base
* FinOps: find best balance between costs and performance
Seeking a Leader for this team to face these challenges. Role modelling and embedding Cultural Principles is key for this leadership position.
Main Responsibilities:
* Create DevOps vision with team
* Decide on right tech stack, tools and plan to reach DevOps vision
* Lead and mentor team of DevOps Engineers. You will provide guidance, support, and foster collaborative and high-performance culture to ensure successful execution of DevOps initiatives
With the team, using agile methodologies:
* Manage and optimize production, QA, and development environments to ensure high availability, scalability, and performance of software products
* Design and implement robust monitoring systems that proactively identify and address performance bottlenecks, security vulnerabilities, and system failures
* Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, to streamline deployment processes and improve operational efficiency
* Drive improvements to platform and tooling used to deliver reliable, secure and performance platform
* Automate and streamline CI/CD pipelines to ensure robust quick builds and deployments
* Respond to incidents on mission critical systems, ensuring platform remains secure and highly available and minimizing client and market impact
* Drive adoption of new technologies within business to help improve reliability, performance, scalability and security of tools and platform
* Collaborate with DevOps Leads in France, Australia and Belgium to share knowledge and develop DevOps good practices that will be shared across group
Required Qualifications and Experience (all the following):
* Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
* Leadership experience, with ability to inspire and mentor team towards achieving goals
* Proven experience in DevOps/SRE or similar role, in software development or SaaS environment
* Advanced knowledge of Azure Cloud and Containerisation technologies
* Strong proficiency in Automation Scripting
* Experience working with CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps products
* Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, with focus on driving solutions in timely manner
* Strong communication and collaboration abilities, with capability to work effectively in team-oriented environment
* Relevant certifications such as Azure certifications, DevOps certifications, or industry-specific certifications
Benefits:
* West Midlands location, modern offices with great amenities
* Work with colleagues in different countries and cultures in diverse company.
* Hybrid Role
* Good remuneration package
* High levels of autonomy
* Opportunity to work on wide variety of projects and technologies
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