Lead DevOps Engineer

About the role

As a DevOps Lead, you will function in our stream-aligned team and work in a cross-cutting role driving advancement in our engineering practices. You will lead by example and coach others to develop their skills in multiple technology areas (e.g., quality engineering, application testing, site reliability, security, cybercrime, software development, data etc.). In addition, you will be a hands-on engineer who can take tasks on and deliver alongside the team.

Key Responsibilities

• Setting the standards and taking responsibility for developing, innovating, and safeguarding knowledge and expertise
• Contributing to a high-performing culture and agile organization
• Taking the lead in self-development by staying abreast of industry trends and sharing your knowledge with your direct reports
• Coeaching and mentoring your direct reports
• Deployment via pipelines, automation, management, and maintenance of cloud-based production systems
• Ensuring availability, performance, security, and scalability
• Evaluating innovative technology alternatives and vendor products
• Troubleshooting system/production issues and performing pre-production acceptance testing
• Designing and maintaining systems for metrics, logging, and monitoring
• Creating IT risk and security artifacts like pen testing, security assessments, Identity and access management processes, Disaster recovery etc.

Qualifications/Skills

• Bachelor diploma in Computer Science, or equivalent experience in related field
• Proven record of accomplishment in successfully managing software projects & teams throughout the complete project lifecycle in an agile organization
• Passionate about growing and developing engineers
• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills
• Strong organizational sensitivity and the ability to understand and consider the underlying issues, opportunities, and dynamics of the cross-border organization
• Continuous improvement mind-set
• Programming Languages: Java, C++, C#, VB.NET
• Scripting – Python, PowerShell, JavaScript
• Pipeline development – YAML