DevOps Practice Lead

Dev Ops Practice Lead About Aer Studios

We are Aer Studios - a creative technology studio on a mission to create extraordinary digital experiences that have a positive impact on our clients, their audiences, people & planet. We imagine, design, develop, build and support for a digital world. We believe that clients shouldn’t have to choose between delightful design and technical rigour. For us, they come as standard.

It’s this belief that has helped us thrive for almost 3 decades, and continue to attract leading creative and technical talent to our growing team of technologists, creatives and thinkers.

Type:
Full-time, permanent, 40 hour week

Location:

Hybrid

Reports to:

Chief Technology Officer

We are looking for a talented Dev Ops Practice Lead to lead our Dev Ops practice and help create extraordinary digital experiences for our valued clients. As leader of this key team, you will be responsible for owning the design, build and ongoing enhancement of Cloud infrastructure and developer tooling across our client projects in addition to leading internal Dev Ops improvement initiatives to make our team more efficient and happy.

You will be a problem solver with an inquisitive mind. You will have the ability to lead discussions internally and with clients to understand requirements and come up with technology solutions and architectures.

• Identifying and owning technical components or solutions that can span multiple projects
• Mentoring other engineers (pair programming, code reviews, feedback)
• Facilitating and management of engineer’s career goals and professional development
• Identifying process improvements, and leaning in to facilitate their implementation.
• Running and facilitating group meetings, and ensuring that actions are completed
• Producing pragmatic and high quality solutions to challenging or complicated problems.
• Assisting with technical aspects in RFP responses and taking part in pitches
• Assisting with planning and estimation of medium-large projects
• Taking part in customer workshops, and other stakeholder management initiatives
• Participates in the interviewing process of new team members.

• You are proactive and self-motivated
• You are a leader and can get the team excited about their work
• You will be a natural ‘people person’ and known for fostering relationships amongst peers and clients alike
• You think strategically and have good commercial awareness in addition to technical expertise
• You are solutions focussed - you can identify problems and quickly reach resolutions
• You are a self-learner - you are constantly looking for ways to upskill and share knowledge with those around you
• You are meticulous and detail oriented

• Relevant industry experience in a similar role or related field
• Experience of leading a Dev Ops team and people management
• Experience of architecting, building and supporting infrastructure
• Knowledge of AWS cloud and a wide range of its services - Lambda, Cloudfront, API Gateway, EC2, S3, ECS, etc
• Good hands‑on knowledge of infrastructure as code using Terraform
• Knowledge and understanding of open server stack including Linux, Apache, MySQL
• Keen eye for process automation
• Experience in Git and Git workflows
• Experience in developing Continuous Integration/ Continuous Delivery pipelines (CI/CD) e.g. Git Hub Actions, Jenkins
• Experience of software containerisation platforms and tools e.g. Docker, Kubernetes
• Experience of monitoring, logging and alerting using tools like Cloud Watch or Nagios
• Experience of incident management
• Experience of managing sysadmin / Dev Ops projects and releases
• Experience working closely with Dev Ops teams to define best in class architecture
• Experience of working in a fast-paced commercial environment where products have to be delivered to fixed timescales.
• Experience working collaboratively with internal delivery teams and senior management
• Experience using Jira/Confluence
• Experience in capacity management
• Familiar with Agile methodologies, iterative and incremental development
• Experience of working in a fast-paced environment where products have to be delivered to fixed timescales.
• Experienc…