Job Description

Our growing team features a diverse range of skills, from generalist to specialist, but one thing our team does have in common is a deep understanding of how our system works and hangs together.

This is a role for someone who is looking to exercise and develop their core leadership skills both from a technical and people management point of view. You will have established DevOps Engineer capabilities as well as people manager capabilities. In this role, you will be managing a group of DevOps Engineers that have a variety of individual and team commitments and capabilities, ensuring the delivery of reliable, timely, and future-proof platforms.

• Experience of managing team functions and objectives, developing deliverables and capacity planning
• Manage a team of DevOps Engineers working to deliver technology solutions to a wide variety of stakeholders
• Your team owns multiple technology systems, and you will own the day-to-day management of those systems, where you are accountable to the customer experience, project prioritization, software quality, and system maintenance.
• You make sure your team develops the right solutions and utilize the processes and facilities available to make connections to customers working with your Lead Engineer to help drive these solutions.
• You help DevOps Engineers grow by encouraging them to contribute to cross-team technical discussions, supporting their ideas, and empowering them to make decisions.
• You have a solid understanding of the design approaches and industry technologies utilized by your team.
• You will help make trade-offs; balancing the larger picture (e.g, resourcing, business goals, user experience, dependency impacts, efficiency, availability, etc.) against the needs of building, maintaining, refactoring, scaling, and extending features to properly support the life of the technology. You make sure your DevOps Engineers are able to spend adequate time on design and you seek their (and the Lead Engineer's) input on technology recommendations.
• Responsible for delivering architecturally sound solutions in the absence of a highly experienced individual contributor.
• You can handle most problems, decisions and escalations providing realistic solutions to mitigate long-term risks.
• You will write tenets and clear documents around establishing best-practice processes.
• Responsible for taking part in the recruitment process identifying the best candidates and providing a great candidate experience.

WHAT YOU GET IN RETURN

Beyond working with such a great team?

• An exciting environment with real growth.
• Contribute to exciting products used by a highly passionate user base.
• 10% time, hackathons, conferences and a manager committed to your career development.
• A healthy work/life balance through flexible working and untracked holidays.
• Pension, Attractive health insurance premiums

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

Ability to manage performance, team coaching and promotion of personal development. Accelerates progress, clears or escalates blockers and creates opportunities for growth. Technical experience in managing a highly available and highly scalable cloud environment, preferably AWS. Experience of working with cross-functional teams, including Project Managers and other stakeholders to define the roadmap for DevOps products and translate this into user stories. Experience in coaching Engineers to improve code and platform quality. Experience supporting software systems in production including on-call support with a relentless focus on improving the stability, availability and performance of those systems. People management, communication, presentation and facilitation skills. Ensures technology solutions are testable, monitored, and maintainable.