Job details

Location
New York
Salary
£100,000.00 - £120,000.00
Job Type
Permanent
Ref
1239807
Posted
about 1 year ago

Job details

Location
New York
Salary
£100,000.00 - £120,000.00
Job Type
Permanent
Ref
1239807
Posted
about 1 year ago

We are looking for an experienced and innovative Senior Developer (DevOps Team Lead) with proven cloud experience, a can-do attitude, and a passion for technical leadership. You will be responsible for the DevOps team and will provide technical support and coaching / mentoring.
With a primary focus on AWS consulting, design, implementation and automation, the chosen candidate will be a vital part of the Operation and Compliance Team. As the “go-to” subject matter expert in the field, you will have extensive knowledge of a variety of technologies to successfully deliver the services our customers require, and a strong responsibility to deliver timely technical services in conjunction with infrastructure, security, and operations team members.
 
Primary responsibilities:

  • Provide ownership, leadership and responsibility over the entire cloud infrastructure.

  • Provide a technical vision and roadmap for DevOps goals and work with the organization to implement.

  • Provide technical leadership to the DevOps team and help grow their technical skills.

  • Work with the Development and Quality Assurance teams to define the CI/CD strategy.

  • Interpret engineering and business requirements to develop the right AWS infrastructure.

  • Automate and manage continuous software builds, tests, deploy processes and release configurations.

  • Drive resource allocation, project planning and technical debt decisions.

  • Troubleshoot build and deploy failures, and facilitate resolution.

  • Responsible for production related issues, as well as, providing monitoring of the system.

  • Determine areas for further automation to increase uptime of our products, as well as, find efficiencies by automating repetitive tasks.

  • Support Test and Staging managed environments for middleware services and applications.

  • Provide assistance to cross-functional teams, QA groups, development and infrastructure by participating in meetings, building out environments, and troubleshooting deployment / configuration related problems.

  • Responsible for monitoring all environments and creating appropriate KPIs for stakeholders.

  • 7+ years of architecture experience in infrastructure, databases, or application development related fields.

  • Proven experience supporting & maintaining AWS, and Testing/ Staging environment builds.

  • Previous experience leading a team is required.

  • AWS Solutions Architect Associate Certification is an asset

  • Technical degree or diploma is an asset (Computer Science, Sciences, Math)

  • Proficient with monitoring/ data collection tools, configuration management and automation tools & container management technology (Ansible or Chef).

  • Expertise with strong knowledge on Source Code Management, Continuous Integration/Delivery solutions (Git/Stash, GitLab, Maven and UDeploy).

  • Understanding of IP networking, VPN’s, DNS, load balancing and firewalling.

  • Familiarity in supporting and maintaining, scalable enterprise-class applications in public cloud (AWS) or private cloud solutions.

  • Experience in developing end-to-end build/release automation for complex solutions for large-scale enterprise systems.

  • Self-motivated to succeed and confidence to lead technical discussions among software developers

  • Strong communication skills, both verbal and written