Job title – DevOps Manager (Birmingham)
Location – (Birmingham)
About Federated Hermes;
Federated Hermes, Inc. is a global leader in active, responsible investment management, with $800.5B billion in assets under management, as of September 30, 2023. We deliver investment solutions that help investors target a broad range of outcomes and provide equity, fixed-income, alternative/private markets, multi-asset, and liquidity management strategies to more than 11,000 institutions and intermediaries worldwide.
Our clients include corporations, government entities, insurance companies, foundations and endowments, banks, and broker/dealers. Headquartered in Pittsburgh, Federated Hermes has more than 2,000 employees in London, New York and offices worldwide. For more information, visit FederatedHermes.com
Main Function of the role:
Based out of FHL’s office in Birmingham, the DevOps Cloud Manager will manage team of high performing engineers.
Key task and responsibilities:
• Provide day-to-day leadership and work with staff to ensure a high-performance, customer service oriented work environment
• Oversee the implementation, deployment, and integration of solutions
• Plas, organise, supervise, train, and evaluate the performance of assigned staff
• Establish performance requirements and personal development targets
• Monitor performance and provide coaching for performance improvement and development
• Manage and participate in the development and administration of the department’s annual budget
• Ensure all systems, applications, and integrations are implemented and maintained using sound
principles
• Plan, build, configure, and test solutions
• Maintain systems
• Analyse and approve new code
• Guide the team to work accordingly
• Build strong communication skills between team members
• Oversee the development of different software or apps
• Manage the ongoing operational tasks
• Guide teams to the successful submission of IT projects
• Play a key role in the development of new ideas for products and services
• Manage the process of turning these ideas into realities
• Serve as administrative manager for IT staff located in the Birmingham office
Experience Required:
• Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Information Science, or equivalent experience required;
Masters degree preferred
•Minimum 5 years professional experience in managing technical resources in order to
demonstrate the skills, experience and knowledge required.
• Likely to have at least 3 years professional experience working in a cloud environment (ex: Azure,
Amazon Web Services, or GCP) in order to demonstrate the skills, experience and knowledge
required.
• Experience with IT industry best-practices related to infrastructure management and
administration required
Minimum knowledge and experience:
* Proficiency in scripting languages such as python, bash or PowerShell
* Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Git, and Azure DevOps
* Experience with Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible, PowerShell DSC
Non-essential but beneficial knowledge and experience
* Managing systems in a cloud environment
* Understanding of advanced networking concepts (firewall, routing, etc.
Candidate Profile:
• Deep understanding of DevOps tools and methodologies like Azure DevOps, Jenkins, Docker, and
Kubernetes
• Experience with development and operational tools such as Git, Ansible, and Terraform
• Excellent technical skills
• Strong problem-solving skills
• Excellent organisational and time management skills, including the ability to work on multiple
projects at the same time
• Awareness of DevOps and Agile principles and the ability to apply them
• Experience building and managing highly-available, fault-tolerant systems at scale
• Experience implementing CI/CD
• Keen attention to detail and accuracy
• Collaborative team player
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Ability to influence appropriately; adapting style to suit the audience
• Ability to build and maintain positive working relationships with internal and external stakeholders
at all levels
Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Flexible Working
We believe in genuine equality of opportunity, fairness, and respect for all applicants and aim to ensure that no current or prospective employee is subject to discrimination or treated less favourably on the basis of their disability, gender identity or expression, race, ethnicity, religion or belief, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, age, sex, or sexual orientation, or disability.
We understand that applicants may have different needs and expectations related to their working arrangements and are committed to a discussion on flexible working. Please raise these with your Recruitment contact to discuss what type of arrangements can work for you and the role for which you are applying.
We welcome applications from all eligible candidates, and we particularly encourage applications from qualified candidates who identify as women and/or are from a Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic background, as these groups are underrepresented throughout the financial services sector, particularly at senior levels.
We are a Disability Confident Employer and participate in the “Offer of Interview” scheme, intended to actively encourage applications from people with a disability or long-term condition and offer an interview to those who meet the minimum criteria set out within this job description. You will need to let us know if you would like to opt in to this scheme by contacting Jessica Sheehan at Jessica.sheehan@federatedhermes.com or +44 207 702 0888. You do not need to share details of your disability or long-term condition.
If you would benefit from alternative methods of applying or for workplace adjustments during the recruitment process, please also let us know by contacting Jessica Sheehan at Jessica.sheehan@federatedhermes.com or +44 207 702 0888 to discuss the support you need.