Description
Digital Catapult is hiring a Head of Engineering. The role is unusually varied as it will include managing devops and engineering for experimental technology platforms built at the Digital Catapult, internal IT systems for Digital Catapult staff and operations, and the systems for the Digital Catapult Centre in King's Cross, that hosts regular events and a rotating set of innovative systems such as Internet of Things sensor networks, 5G testbeds or virtual reality experiences.
The ideal candidate is proactive, cheerful, creative and collaborative. Hands-on technical experience is required across modern devops tools (including deployment, monitoring, build automation and devops generally. You should have successful experience managing small multidisciplinary technical teams across software engineering and operations, and managing budgets for IT equipment and cloud hosting. The team is fewer than 10 people across IT, software development and devops.
Within this role you will gain exposure to many of the latest topics and technologies such as blockchain and smart contracts, internet of things, virtual and augmented reality.
ACCOUNTABILITIES
• Lead a team providing devops and operational support to Digital Catapult web platforms. These are often experimental systems but some will evolve to be larger live services, and in addition include the corporate web site. They are often created in collaboration with partners.
• Lead a team of software engineers building Digital Catapult platforms and components
• Provide strong leadership for processes, automation, best practices, documentation and budget management
• Lead the IT team to provide both support and proactive improvements for internal IT systems including email, messaging, calendaring, expenses, CRM, accounting and finance, HR, printing, videoconferencing / telepresence and so on
• Technical accountability for security procedures and awareness including Cyber Essentials certification (working with our Security Architect)
• Manage the networking and systems for the Digital Catapult Centre to with high availability for staff and visitors, including guest wifi, AV provision for events
• Participate creatively in showcasing and experimenting with the latest technologies at the Centre. An example is our role to create a large-scale low-power wide-area Internet of Things network, or our plans for virtual and augmented reality.
SKILLS/EXPERIENCE/QUALIFICATIONS
Technical Capabilities and Experience
• Experience managing software development teams
• Architecture, planning and budgeting for cloud deployments; strong knowledge of available services across major providers such as AWS, Azure, Google
• Devops automation, containerisation and orchestration tools such as Chef, Ansible, Docker, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Mesos, CoreOS
• Operational experience with monitoring and alerting for web services, cloud deployments and networks
• Strong networking knowledge and skills
• Excellent process management experience for documentation, agile software build and delivery, continuous testing and deployment, configuration management, source control
• Essential to have previous history of hands-on software development
• Detailed command of Linux
• Desirable to have experience with big data systems using frameworks such as Hadoop
• Desirable to have experience managing internal IT systems (we have a mixed Mac/Windows environment with cloud-based services and applications)
Behavioural Competencies
• Outstanding interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
• Strong project and time management focus, able to handle multiple projects at different stages of development as well as operational issues
• Pro-active and self-confident, adaptable and able to cope with ambiguity, changing and evolving priorities whilst being able to identify new opportunities.
• Excellent problem solving and multi-tasking skills, with a creative and flexible attitude
• Very collaborative working style; desire and ability to share ideas
• Team leadership and budget management experience
Qualifications
• Degree in Computer Science or similar field desirable
WORKING CONDITIONS
• Location: Central London
• Travel: Very little
• Out of hours: Occasional, and managed across the team
To apply please click the APPLY button now.
Apply by 18th December!
Key Words: Head of Engineering, Software Development, Manager, Management, Software Developer, Devops.