Lead DevOps Engineer

Location: Remote

Position Type: Permanent

Key Responsibilities:

As the Lead DevOps Engineer, your primary responsibilities will be:

• Work alongside the Principle DevOps Engineer design, secure & deliver Cloud services across multiple environments and geographies, primarily on AWS followed by Azure & GCP.
• Be the driving technical force behind the delivery & operation of Cloud services to support the functions/capabilties of the business.
• The delivery of a Cloud agnostic ecosystem of tooling and operational processes based on DevOps, CICD & FinOps best practices, to support business capabilities/services.
• Support the Lead DevSecOps Engineer & team as they build the Landing Zone(s) that you will build capabilities/services on top of.

You will be collaborating closely with cross-functional teams & personnel, where design inputs & requirements are expected to be fluid & changeable.

In addition to technical leadership skills, you will be expected to:

• Lead team of DevOps Engineer(s) (including recruitment).
• Mentor junior members of the wider team & organisation as/when required.
• Deputise for the Principle DevOps Engineer as/when required.

Position Overview:

• Cloud Services: Build and secure applications/services in support of the business functions of Centric, primarily based around Kubernetes hosted microservices.
• Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Ensure secure & effective testing and deployment of services using CI/CD best practices to enable efficient, secure software & infrastructure delivery.
• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Deliver services using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) code and templates to test, provision, configure, and manage infrastructure components using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar.
• Automation: Be the drivering force for the automation of infrastructure provisioning and orchestration to streamline deployment processes, ensuring consistency and reliability across multiple environments & regions.  This includes consistency of developer UX between pipelines & desktop.
• Security: Working closely with the Security Architect & Principle DevOps Engineer, you will ensure security of the services deployed.
• Documentation: Ensure effective documentation to ensure a clean handover of Cloud environments to Ops & SRE teams.
• Infrastructure Maintenance: Ensure the effective monitoring of infrastructure components to ensure optimal performance, scalability, and reliability.  This will include self-healing capabilities.
• Support for Developers and QA: Collaborate with development and QA teams to provide guidance and support in building automated testing and deployment pipelines.
• Infrastructure Optimization: Identify opportunities for infrastructure optimization, cost reduction, and performance improvement.

Qualifications:

• Demonstrable experience of lead Engineering or technical leadership role(s).
• Demonstrable experience of DevOps practices and the promotion thereof.
• Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles and practices.
• Strong understanding of cloud computing platforms (primarily AWS, but Azure &/or Google Cloud is beneficial) and on-premises environments.
• Proficiency in IaC tools and scripting languages (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Python, etc.).
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams.

Key Technical Skills:

• Terraform
• GitHub & GitHub Actions
• AWS Organisations
• AWS Control Tower (including Account Factory for Terraform - AFT)
• Python (including curating Python packages)

Centric Software provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, color, age, religion, protected veteran or disability status or genetic information.