DevOps Lead

Responsibilities

• Support and manage our hosting environment
• Support our development team
• Find opportunities to streamline how we work
• Drive opportunities for efficiencies
• Knowledge sharing support and upskilling of the rest of the team
• Championing relevant documentation

Requirements

• Experience in deploying highly available automated Linux-based systems
• Solid understanding of networking protocols and how the internet works
• Experience with containerisation, Docker etc
• Experience in automating with Ansible or similar tools
• A good understanding of databases, database design and optimization
• Experience with coding, ideally backend services in Python, PHP reasonable understanding of web technologies
• Knowledge of automated testing
• Building CI/CD pipelines
• Proven ability and interest in picking up new technologies quickly, leading evaluations and providing suggestions of key technologies to base future development around
• Great problem solving ability, especially under pressure
• A passion to lead and mentor more junior DevOps engineers
• An ability to explain and articulate technical detail clearly to technical management and developers
• Understanding of the importance of writing documentation and training other staff on operating platforms
• Architecting, deploying, maintaining and scaling platforms