They specialize in backup and recovery, archiving, disaster recovery, search and insight, and data migration that is managed through a single control centre, on any device.
Trusted by more than 40,000 global customers across all industries, they use proven, leading technology to help you discover, analyse, control, and protect your critical data – and it’s making downtime a thing of the past.
As a private equity backed software vendor, with global aspirations, they operate in a fantastic, fast growing market. This is a wonderful and exciting opportunity for a high-achieving, highly motivated and results orientated professional who wants to spend the next few years driving significant growth.
Their VISION: To discover, manage and protect all theirr customers'''''''' data from a single control centre.
MISSION: To make their customers life simpler, safer and smarter.
PURPOSE (WHY): they belief that there is a smarter way of doing data management.
PHILOSOPHY: They have many different styles and strengths, but what everyone have in common is their commitment to:
• perform on a high level with high standards,
• deliver great results,
• learn and grow, and
• feel engaged in their work.
VALUES AND CULTURE - FLIP:
• FUN - Work in a role that suits your nature. Be focused, aligned and engaged.
• LEARNING - Fail fast, fail forward. Innovate. Learn and grow.
• INTEGRITY - Be upfront and honest. Be accountable.
• PROFIT - Customer satisfaction. Increased performance.
Lead Devops and Release Engineer
Duties and responsibilities:
- Working closely with other engineering leads to agree priorities, engineering plans and clear deliverables
- Establish technical competencies within your team and foster a strong working relationship with other engineering leads
- Create, implement and maintain a continuous improvement plan for the areas your team are responsible for
- Assist with the development and recruitment of the required skills to achieve their vision
- Mentoring and coaching of team to be world class
- Supporting engineering teams with build and release processes
- Continued improvements with CI/CD pipelines
- Coordinating and managing releases for complex software systems
- Drives unification and automation of processes across engineering
- Highly effective cross-team collaborator (Dev, Ops and QA)
- Provisioning, maintenance and administration of cloud and on-premises infrastructure
- Configuration of sophisticated alerting to ensure high availability of products and services
- Research and adoption of technology and tooling
- Be accountable for quality and reliability
Behaviours to demonstrate
- Highly collaborative and transparent team player
- Passionate, curious, and self-driven
- Hungry for market knowledge
- Evangelize and embrace design thinking
- Exhibit strong attention to detail and analytical skills
- Ability to be upfront, honest, and accountable
Essential skills, qualifications, and experience
- Experience of people management and ability to lead, drive and influence others (technical and soft skills)
- 5+ years in SRE/DevOps or related role
- 3+ years'''''''' experience in C# or other modern OO language
- Highly experienced with automation tooling and scripting languages
- Highly experienced with CI/CD platforms and release strategies
- Experience of the full SDLC and working in an Agile/SCRUM environment
- Experience of building/supporting complex and secure cloud products and services (ReST API’s, scalability, reliability, etc.)
- Knowledge of end-to-end infrastructure including networking, firewalls, load balancers, application servers etc.
- Fault finding, guidance on issue escalation and resolution
- Excellent problem solving and communication skills
Desired skills, qualifications, and experience
- Experience of Microsoft Azure products and services, including Azure DevOps
- Experience of writing and maintaining automated tests
- Experience of working with various database technologies including SQL
- Containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes)
- Cost reduction/efficiency
- Experience of people management and ability to lead, drive and influence others (technical and soft skills)
- College or university qualification in a relevant software engineering or other technical discipline
