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- DevOps (Azure) Lead - 8+ years experience in development, with at least the la
- Birmingham
- UK nationals or ILR only
- You MUST already live within an hour’s drive of Birmingham B91 as you will be onsite 3 days per week
- You must be an expert in Azure
- Must have DevOps management/leadership experience
- You must have excellent communication skills
- 3-stage hiring process: initial Culture Fit video call with Group CTO; if this goes well, then a Technical video call with existing DevOps Leads, if this goes well, then a HR Interview most likely also with the CEO (this stage is likely to be face-to-face).
- Increase of renewable energy and its unpredictability, operated by increasingly small players, leads to high market volatility. This volatility creates opportunities for energy traders.
- Price cap in UK limits revenue of energy retailers, so they need to widen their capabilities and increase their efficiency to survive
- Security while moving to cloud
- Automation thanks to Infrastructure as Code
- Reliability while scaling platform for growing customer base
- FinOps: find best balance between costs and performance
- Create DevOps vision with team
- Decide on right tech stack, tools and plan to reach DevOps vision
- Lead and mentor team of DevOps Engineers. You will provide guidance, support, and foster collaborative and high-performance culture to ensure successful execution of DevOps initiatives
- Manage and optimize production, QA, and development environments to ensure high availability, scalability, and performance of software products
- Design and implement robust monitoring systems that proactively identify and address performance bottlenecks, security vulnerabilities, and system failures
- Collaborate closely with cross-functional teams, to streamline deployment processes and improve operational efficiency
- Drive improvements to platform and tooling used to deliver reliable, secure and performance platform
- Automate and streamline CI/CD pipelines to ensure robust quick builds and deployments
- Respond to incidents on mission critical systems, ensuring platform remains secure and highly available and minimizing client and market impact
- Drive adoption of new technologies within business to help improve reliability, performance, scalability and security of tools and platform
- Collaborate with DevOps Leads in France, Australia and Belgium to share knowledge and develop DevOps good practices that will be shared across group
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- Leadership experience, with ability to inspire and mentor team towards achieving goals
- Proven experience in DevOps/SRE or similar role, in software development or SaaS environment
- Advanced knowledge of Azure Cloud and Containerisation technologies
- Strong proficiency in Automation Scripting
- Experience working with CI/CD pipelines in Azure DevOps products
- Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills, with focus on driving solutions in timely manner
- Strong communication and collaboration abilities, with capability to work effectively in team-oriented environment
- Relevant certifications such as Azure certifications, DevOps certifications, or industry-specific certifications
- West Midlands location, modern offices with great amenities
- Work with colleagues in different countries and cultures in diverse company.
- Hybrid Role
- Good remuneration package
- High levels of autonomy
- Opportunity to work on wide variety of projects and technologies
