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DevOps Lead - West Midlands

DevOps Microsoft - IT
Ref: 252 Date Posted: Friday 24 Jan 2025

DevOps (Azure) Lead

Our client is a global leader in the commercial energy sector. Their teams are distributed widely in Australia, France, Belgium, and UK. They work on more than 17 products, all at a different stage of their life cycle with trading desks operating in Europe and Australia

Main Responsibilities

  • Create the DevOps vision with the team
  • Decide on the right tech stack, tools and plan to reach the DevOps vision
  • Lead and mentor the team of DevOps engineers. You will provide guidance, support, and foster a collaborative and high-performance culture to ensure the successful execution of DevOps initiatives

With the team, using agile methodologies:

  • Manage and optimize the production, QA, and development environments to ensure high availability, scalability, and performance of their 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 the platform and tooling used to deliver a reliable, secure and performance platform.
  • Automate and streamline their CI/CD pipelines to ensure robust quick builds and deployments.
  • Respond to incidents on mission critical systems, ensuring the platform remains secure and highly available and minimizing client and market impact.
  • Drive the adoption of new technologies within the business to help improve the reliability, performance, scalability and security of the tools and platform they operate.
  • Collaborate with the DevOps Lead of France, Australia and Belgium to share knowledge and develop DevOps good practices that will be shared across the group.

Experience

  • Leadership experience, with the ability to inspire and mentor a team towards achieving goals.
  • Proven experience in a DevOps/SRE or similar role, preferably in a 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 or equivalent products.
  • Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, with a focus on driving solutions in a timely manner.
  • Strong communication and collaboration abilities, with the capability to work effectively in a team-oriented environment.
  • Relevant certifications such as Azure certifications, DevOps certifications, or industry-specific certifications are advantageous.


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