Job Description: Technical Lead-DevOps

ACCOUNTABILITIES:

• Manage, maintain and improve the CI/CD chain
• “Shift left” the DevOps mindset and technical ability by coaching and influencing project delivery and operations teams
• Assist with making DevOps a well-oiled machine for bringing our products to the market fast, otherwise: fail fast
• Engage with multiple project teams and coordinate assisting with infrastructure build and deploy processes
• Play a lead role in organizational transformation towards iterative software delivery and high frequency production releases
• Encourage and cultivate a DevOps culture
• Service and support software delivery teams to help them get more efficient and upskill their CI/CD abilities
• Maintain high levels of professionalism and integrity when dealing with both customers and your colleagues
• Be a continuous improvement and learning advocate to others in the organisation
• You will embrace a continuous improvement culture
• You will proactively participate in continuous improvement initiatives
• It is an expectation that you actively seek self-improvement, and you will be responsible for demonstrating this
• You will be part of a Chapter and be an active participant. You will identify improvement opportunities and share the results with the Software Delivery team.

MEASURES OF SUCCESS:

• There is an increase in DevOps capability outside of the DevOps team. Such as increased AWS knowledge and usage of CI/CD tools
• There is a reduction in delivery times on software solutions
• There is a reduction in operational overheads in software delivery
• You proactively participate in continuous improvement activities and identify and implement improvement opportunities
• Your team has a safe environment in which to experiment, learn, collaborate and challenge ideas
• Work with your team/s to break down work to reduce risk and provide value to our customers by deploying to production at the end of each sprint
• Being professional. Living and breathing our Company Values to support a high performing and positive team environment.
• Meeting or exceeding missionZero safety reporting requirements.
• Demonstrated contribution to the achievement of Business’s Financial, People, Safety and Customer strategic business objectives.

REQUIREMENTS:

• Technical qualifications in a related discipline
• Agile certification

Skills and Experience:

• Excellent understanding of Agile and Lean principles
• Experience in the management, review and assessment of complex Software Delivery projects incorporating systems integration and cloud environments
• An agile thinker who embraces the benefits of iterative learning and incremental development
• You understand the importance of being able to focus on one thing at a time, and working at a sustainable pace indefinitely
• Being a key contributor to workshops and other productive meetings with development teams, customers and other stakeholders
• Experience building daily working relationships with stakeholders such as Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Software Developers, Testers, Business Analysts, Architects and UX Designers, delighting them along the way also!
• Ability to work effectively in a customer focussed organisation that provides internal and external customer service

•Excellent communication skills and demonstrate integrity and trust •Ability to foster trusting relationships with colleagues and clients.

Special Role requirements:

•At least 2+ years in a DevOps role •Cloud experience (AWS, Azure, etc)

• Advanced understanding of security best practices and applying them to our solutions
• A solid understanding of networking / subnetting
• Ideally have experience developing in at least one proper OO language
• Be comfortable scripting in multiple scripting languages (bash, PowerShell, Python, etc)
• Be comfortable managing both Linux and Windows environments from an infrastructure perspective
• Experience with Infrastructure as code (Puppet, Chef, Ansible, CloudFormation, Terraform)
• Experience with setting up new CI/CD chains from scratch
• A curiosity for the latest tech, and a willingness to accept constant technical changes are important for this role.