DevOps Team Lead

## .
* ** Hire
* * and
** build a team
** by recruiting talented engineers and forming them into a high-performance team.
* ** Lead and manage a team**. You demonstrate strong leadership qualities in your craft, in your collaboration with colleagues across a broad spectrum of roles, and in the development, care, coaching and mentorship of your team.
* You
** manage
* * the
** people
* * in your team(s), with a focus on their performance, personal development and career progression.
* Collaborate effectively within an agile team, and in close
** collaboration
* * with Development and Product teams delivering continuous improvements in customer outcomes.
* ** Coordinate
* * and drive alignment with other Dev Ops teams on the development, operation and reuse of shared solutions and responsibilities.
* Participating in the configuring, deploying, monitoring, and supporting the hosting of applications in
** AWS**, ensuring the use of IaC best practices on our infrastructure assets.
* Ensure effective
** monitoring
* * and
** automation
* * supporting the effective management and consumption of cloud resources.
* Operate and maintain software systems across the full breadth of the SDLC and ensure optimal construction and implementation of
** CI/CD
** pipelines.
* Work with the Support and Development teams to ensure troubleshooting, diagnosis and rectification of hosting issues, and provide effective solutions through the applied integration of infrastructure, software, and software delivery
** best practices**.
* Acting as an escalation point for internal and external customers to provide support for production issues.
* ** Mentoring
* * junior team members to develop their skills.

Monitoring
** costs
* * and
** compliance**, assuring frugal service delivery in alignment with our procedures and standards as well as external certification and regulatory requirements.
* 7+ years of Cloud Engineering experience in an international, product-based organization.
* A BS Engineering/Computer Science or equivalent.
* Track record in building a new engineering team and taking them on a high-performance journey.
* Experience leading and managing an engineering team, with a proven track record in leading seasoned and developing junior engineers.
* Experience leading and managing people, with a proven track record in building high performance teams, growing individuals’ skills and advancing the careers of others.
* Experience with delivery and project management, workload estimation and roadmap planning.
* Dev Ops experience in large, multi-product environments, with production cloud hosting at scale, including budgeting.
* Experience provisioning, maintaining and administrating servers, systems and networks, including troubleshooting, incident management and performance optimization.
* Experience authoring CI/CD pipelines, automation elements related to infrastructure composition, deployment orchestration, and monitoring.
* A good understanding of working in an Agile environment and its working practices.
* A humble, authentic, and collaborative personality, self-starter attitude, ability to operate autonomously, bias for acting fast and pivoting when wrong, and a proven track record of empowerment to make the right decisions.
* A positive and constructive attitude and approach to cross-functional collaboration across the stack (frontend/backend and Dev Ops) and good execution.
* Awareness of longer-term impacts of architectural/deployment/automation choices.
* Comfortable presenting and communicating ideas to key stakeholders and engineers alike.
* Ability to convince people to follow your lead, and to give timely and constructive feedback.
* A habit of putting yourself in your customers’ shoes and holding yourself accountable to the right outcomes.
* Proficient command of the English language, both written and spoken.
* Solid understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and practices.
* Experience in AWS Architecture, ideally with an accreditation.
* Experience managing and running production workloads on Kubernetes.
* Experience using Terraform as an automation technology.
* Experience deploying configuration management via…