Dev Ops/SRE Team Lead – Kubernetics, Docker, SaaS Full Time

SALARY:  Market Rate

Our Client:

Our client is the leading provider of cloud-based enterprise software for a very large global market.  Their product supports email, instant messaging, social media, mobile messaging, along with mobile, Outlook, and web access.

Overview:

They are looking for a DevOps/SRE Team Lead to act as a major contributor in building a top-tier DevOps team that will partner with the broader organization to help them invent and transform Information Management through technology that is elegant, sophisticated, user-centric, and thought leading. They build teams and a culture that respects the art and science of software engineering.

Your Job:

• Lead a team of talented DevOps Engineers responsible for ensuring the smooth operation of production systems and development/test environments
• Be a hands-on DevOps team manager who will spend up to 50% of their time in design reviews, sprint planning and other Agile artifacts. Some active coding and environment administration is a requirement for this role
• Own your team’s deliverables and product quality. Ensure scalable, highly-available, and world class products ship to customers
• Manage up to 5 DevOps Engineers, including performance management and career development
• Instantiate a culture of knowledge sharing and avoid knowledge hoarding
• Mentor and guide the professional and technical development of your team members
• Provide continuous feedback, address underperformance, and recognize the individual strengths and contributions of your team members
• Instill a spirit of continuous improvement in the team’s code, architecture, and processes
• Work with product managers to ensure the teams are delivering an accurate product build and work with project managers to ensure the schedules and controls for the development teams are met
• Work with appropriate stakeholder to ensure production issues are resolved quickly
• Help your team build relationships across functions with Development, QA, Operations, Support and other teams to ensure continuing success
• Appreciate and advocate for information security and secure coding practices

About You:

• A BSc in Computer Science, Engineering, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience
• 8+ years of DevOps or SRE experience, shipping and supporting enterprise grade software, using multiple platforms, languages and tooling
• 2+ years of experience as a hands-on DevOps or SRE Lead
• 1+ years of people management experience
• Strong communication and consensus building skills
• Demonstrated track record of being a change agent, leaving every team and process better than you found it
• Language, framework, and toolset agnostic skills

Experience with the following is required:

• Deploying applications via Kubernetes or Docker
• Continuous integration systems
• A full stack SaaS development environment
• Advanced web applications
• API’s in service and resource-oriented architectures
• Large complex databases and data quality and lifecycle issues