Project – the aim you’ll have
The role will be part of a delivery stream-aligned engineering team, with responsibility for providing and managing the technical platform that enables Application Development teams to deliver and run business systems efficiently.
The focus of the role is to ensure the technical estate and skill set of the relevant delivery stream remain aligned with departmental strategy, and that delivery teams work efficiently using best-practice delivery approaches.
Position – how you’ll contribute
As a DevOps Engineer, you can expect to be involved in the following activities:
- Work with the Principal DevOps Engineer and other groups within the department, such as the Developer Community, Architecture, Central Platform Engineering, and other delivery stream engineering teams, to enforce existing standards and contribute to their evolution.
- Ensure delivery stream teams are making good use of available tooling and platform elements, and aid in upskilling and maintaining their level of knowledge in relevant platform tools and modern development practices with a focus on productivity and efficiency.
- Deliver technical life-cycling changes and ensure our development platform remains supported, capable, and evergreen.
- Help the delivery teams to design and deliver systems that meet required Non-Functional Requirements for each tech stack and project, in particular, this should emphasise reliability, robustness, and maintainability.
- Assist delivery teams in diagnosing and correcting platform and tooling issues, collaborating with the Central Platforms team as necessary.
- Deliver software infrastructure and tooling to delivery projects, defining and evolving best practices as necessary and ensure these learnings are shared with other engineering teams.
Expectations – the experience you need
- CI/CD (preferred)
- Kubernetes (preferred)
- Azure DevOps (preferred)
- Pipelines (preferred)
- Application Security (preferred)
- Cloud Services/capabilities (preferred)
- General development experience with in-house systems (preferred)
Additional skills – the edge you have
- Adaptability
- Digital effectiveness
- Enabling others
- Systems thinking
- Team Working
Our offer – professional development, personal growth
- Flexible employment and remote work
- International projects with leading global clients
- International business trips
- Non-corporate atmosphere
- Language classes
- Internal & external training
- Private healthcare and insurance
- Multisport card
- Well-being initiatives
Software Mind develops solutions that make an impact for companies around the globe. Tech giants & unicorns, transformative projects, emerging technologies and limitless opportunities – these are a few words that describe an average day for us. Building cross-functional engineering teams that take ownership and crave more means we’re always on the lookout for talented people who bring passion and creativity to every project. Our culture embraces openness, acts with respect, shows grit & guts and combines employment with enjoyment.
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