Lead Development Operations Engineer

Lead DevOps Engineer
Business Applications Manager
Location: London Docklands
Our DevOps team provides specialist technical expertise to enable the development and operating of our business-critical applications. As one of our lead DevOps engineers, you’ll be responsible for leading a small team of skilled DevOps engineers working across a range of cloud-based technologies, including (but not limited to), Microsoft Dynamics 365, Azure, Kofax and Microsoft SharePoint online.
Key responsibilities:
Owning the DevOps lifecycle and strategic roadmap– automating manual tasks for deploying and developing to implement CICD
Maintaining the high availability of our production and non-production environments
Communicating with third party suppliers, technology colleagues and the wider business -and deciding when is appropriate to escalate
Keeping up to date with industry trends and best practices – conducting research and tests to implement new techniques which enhance our DevOps lifecycle
Deploying a variety of IT solutions to a range of environments – you’ll be scripting and automating our processes
Ensuring the smooth running of our applications across a range of servers and environments
Improving the change pipeline including the full continuous delivery (CD) and continuous integration (CI) processes, ensuring everything is as efficient as possible
Planning for the future from capacity to stability to continuously improving methods to automate, ensure consistency and improve the up-time of our systems – you’ll be planning a work schedule up to around four months ahead
Minimum Criteria:
Being a technical SME with experience in a development and operational environment using Microsoft tools
Having experience building CI and CD using tools such as Azure DevOps, Team City and Octopus
Working within Agile teams with Scrum and Kanban methodologies
Working with third party providers to achieve value for money and business benefit
Being able to effectively deploy and support .NET applications
Having in-depth knowledge of web hosting, load balancing and networking
Having knowledge of Microsoft Dynamics 365 and how to support it
Having experience of Azure, other cloud platforms and XaaS
Having good communication skills, with the ability to explain technical concepts and issues to a variety of colleagues
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