Devops lead

Berkshire  ‐ Onsite
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Keywords

DevOps Microsoft Azure Cloud Computing Agile Methodology Communication Maintenance Electrical Installation Work Software Engineering Technical Management Tooling Assembly and Dismantling Innovation JIRA Make decisions Code Reuse Computer Engineering Consulting Engineering Renewable Energy Leadership Scalability Information Technology Operations Infrastructure Management Problem Solving Python (Programming Language) Apache Maven OpenShift Platform As A Service (PAAS) Scrum Methodology Quality Management Solution Architecture SonarQube Stakeholder Management Standardization Technical Supervision Presentations Metrics Kanban Kubernetes Climate Change Bitbucket Checkmarx Meetings Organisation and Preparation Devsecops Docker Jenkins

Description

* DevOps Tooling Lead - Maintenance and Support required.*
Job: Information Technology
Primary Location: Wokingham
Our client moves energy to millions of homes and businesses in the UK and US, with an energy network that stretches across the Atlantic. As the world changes to embrace cleaner energy and businesses shift to operate in a more responsible way, we are leading that charge. We are focused on finding ways to decarbonise the energy system - from building interconnectors to allow the UK to share clean energy with our neighbours in Europe, to investing in renewable energy generation in the US.
The Electricity System Operator (ESO), sit at the heart of the energy system. We do not generate or sell electricity, we distribute and balance the supply around the UK to where it's needed in homes, hospitals, and businesses; second by second, days a year, keeping the lights on in the UK.
Climate change is the challenge of a generation, here at NGESO, we play an instrumental part in transforming the energy system, delivering, and operating a greener, cleaner future through evaluating numerous future energy scenarios to enable and meet the UK governments net zero carbon emissions target by 2050, with our sights firmly set on achieving net-zero operability by 2025.
We are currently seeking an innovative, technically talented Lead who can lead the ESO DevOps Tooling Platform team providing end-to-end DevOps tools for use across major initiatives within our Delivery teams
The ideal candidate will be responsible for implementing and supporting the DevOps tool platform and providing technical expertise across the IT organization. The candidate will be a strong technical leader with a broad software engineering background. They will have extensive hands-on experience implementing and applying DevOps/DevSecOps tools and capabilities to increase quality, improve security, increase developer efficiency, and accelerate speed of delivery.
Required Skills
. In depth technical understanding and hands-on experience with DevOps tools and capabilities, such as, Bitbucket, Jenkins, SonarQube, Checkmarx.
. Experience with container/orchestration approaches and tools, such as Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, or Docker
. Good Technical leadership and the ability to be hands on and contribute technically.
. Experience in establishing DevOps related patterns and frameworks to drive standardization and reuse.
. Expertise in cloud hosting environments, such as Azure, and experience implementing cloud-based services (eg, Azure PaaS services).
. Communicates effectively (both written and oral) to a wide range of IT Stakeholders, including Enterprise and Solution Architecture, Application Infrastructure, Quality Engineering, Security, Solutions Engineering teams, IT Operations and Sr. IT Leadership.
. Experience in agile methodologies including Scrum and Kanban as well as agile at scale
. Knowledge of either Maven or Python would be desirable.
. Expertise with using Jira (or equivalent such as Azure Boards/Azure DevOps) as day-to-day ALM tool
Responsibilities
. Provides technical direction for the ESO Enterprise DevOps Tooling Platforms and maintains the DevOps tools technical backlog (such as patching, upgrades, security, and optimising for scalability and performance) for the maintenance and support of the platforms.
. Lead technical implementation and adoption of DevOps tools and capabilities.
. Defines and Inputs into Enterprise DevOps tools standards, metrics and best practices.
. Evaluates and recommends new tools and capabilities and performs technical proof of concepts to assess new tools or implementation approaches.
. Designs reusable DevOps components (eg, quality and security scans) and technical frameworks to support standardized pipelines and code reuse.
. Implementation of DevOps tools on cloud hosting environments, such as Azure.
. Overseeing team who provide L3 support for the DevOps tooling platform
Minimum Qualifications
. Bachelor's degree in computer science or computer engineering or industry equivalent.
. Good Experience leading DevOps related projects/DevOps tools and capabilities experience in a complex Global IT organization.
. Extensive experience working directly in the software development life cycle.
. Good hands-on experience working with Microsoft Azure or equivalent.
. Must have excellent oral and written communication, which includes creating and delivering effective presentations, meeting facilitation, decision making, and problem-solving skills.
Pontoon is an employment consultancy. We put expertise, energy, and passion into improving everyone's chance of being part of the workplace. We respect and appreciate people of all ethnicities, generations, religious beliefs, sexual orientations, gender identities, and more. We do this by showcasing their talents, skills, and unique experience in an all-encompassing environment that helps them thrive.
Please be advised if you haven't heard from us within 48 hours then unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion, we may however keep your details on file for any suitable future vacancies
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Start date
ASAP
Duration
6 months
From
Pontoon
Published at
29.03.2023
Project ID:
2573764
Contract type
Freelance
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