Lead DevOps Engineer
7 days ago
Newport
Lead DevOps Engineer • Location: Newport, • Salary: £66,000 - £77,000 (including allowances), • Job Type: Full-time, Permanent Day-to-day of the role: • Provide hands-on technical leadership, offering coaching and mentoring to enhance team capabilities., • Lead the sharing of knowledge and good practices within the team., • Act as a technical product owner, developing strategies for product lines and managing DevOps engineers., • Lead DevOps expertise and decision-making across the entire software delivery lifecycle., • Produce and assure DevOps technical designs, providing justifications for technical decisions., • Enable the reuse of patterns, tools, and components across various projects., • Provide deep DevOps technical expertise to project delivery teams., • Play a key role in the DevOps Community of Practice by sharing expertise to build overall team capability., • Assure that DevOps technical solutions adhere to all agreed processes and best practices, especially around security and governance., • Mentor DevOps Engineers, supporting their professional development and guiding them in critical decision-making., • Lead on developing, implementing, enhancing, and managing technical DevOps practices., • Strong understanding of DevOps principles with experience in a DevOps or iterative development culture., • Proven experience in implementing CI/CD processes and tools, including pipeline design and administration., • Experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform., • Experience deploying to and consuming cloud platform resources, with a preference for Microsoft Azure., • Substantial experience in administration and configuration of Azure DevOps Pipelines, GitHub Actions, or similar CI/CD orchestration tools., • Proficiency in Python, .Net Core/C#, NextJs/Node frontend, and scripting in Python/Bash/PowerShell., • Experience with containerisation technologies and platforms such as Docker and AKS., • Strong communication skills with experience in knowledge sharing and mentoring., • Competitive salary and benefits package., • Hybrid working model with flexibility., • Opportunities for professional and career development.