Technical Lead-DevOps

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.