DevOps Lead

My client is looking for a proven leader to work with them on shaping the future of DevOps within EU operations!

Location: United Kingdom

Day Rate: £500 per day (Outside IR35)

Start: September

My client is the number 1 globally leading provider for some of the most complex logistics solutions serving the shipping industry, with some of the most well-known partner brands relying on them daily!

This role will be working with the Head of Infrastructure on setting the right foundations and supporting infrastructure for a fast evolving product environment

Responsibilities:

• Review and understand ISS software engineering and application support processes and foster DevOps culture
• Build platforms and frameworks to create consistent, verifiable, and automatic management of applications and infrastructure between non-production and production environments
• Lead ongoing product engineering and operational processes across product teams with an Automation and Live Site First approach
• Anchor continuous process monitoring and improvement towards Lean Software Development
• Establish continuous build environments to speed up software development.
• Guide product teams on DevOps and SRE related requirements and be responsible for technical deliverables.
• Be an anchor point for establishing DevOps culture across various product and support teams

Required Skills:

• Expert in modern software engineering practices
• A strict Agile practitioner with master level experience in using tools like Jira, Team City
• Expert level knowledge of DevOps tools like Bitbucket/GitHub, Sonar Cube, CAST, Team City/Jenkins/Azure DevOps
• Expert level knowledge of telemetry and observability platforms like ELK stack, Grafana, Kibana, Azure Application Insights, AWS Cloud Watch etc.,
• Scripting languages preferably python, PowerShell
• Database technologies preferably MS SQL Server, Postgres SQL
• Infrastructure as code – AWS Cloudformation / Terraform/Ansible/Chef
• AWS cloud native development using EC2, Lambda, S3, Simple Que Service etc.,