DevOps Practice Lead
About Aer Studios
We are Aer Studios - a creative technology studio on a mission to create extraordinary digital experiences that have a positive impact on our clients, their audiences, people & planet. We imagine, design, develop, build and support for a digital world. We believe that clients shouldn’t have to choose between delightful design and technical rigour. For us, they come as standard. It’s this belief that has helped us thrive for almost 3 decades, and continue to attract leading creative and technical talent to our growing team of technologists, creatives and thinkers.
Type: Full-time, permanent, 40 hour week
Location: Hybrid
Reports to: Chief Technology Officer
The opportunity
We are looking for a talented DevOps Practice Lead to lead our DevOps practice and help create extraordinary digital experiences for our valued clients. As leader of this key team, you will be responsible for owning the design, build and ongoing enhancement of Cloud infrastructure and developer tooling across our client projects in addition to leading internal DevOps improvement initiatives to make our team more efficient and happy.
You will be a problem solver with an inquisitive mind. You will have the ability to lead discussions internally and with clients to understand requirements and come up with technology solutions and architectures.
Responsibilities you’ll hold
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Identifying and owning technical components or solutions that can span multiple projects
- Mentoring other engineers (pair programming, code reviews, feedback)
- Facilitating and management of engineer’s career goals and professional development
- Identifying process improvements, and leaning in to facilitate their implementation.
- Running and facilitating group meetings, and ensuring that actions are completed
- Producing pragmatic and high quality solutions to challenging or complicated problems.
- Assisting with technical aspects in RFP responses and taking part in pitches
- Assisting with planning and estimation of medium-large projects
- Taking part in customer workshops, and other stakeholder management initiatives
- Participates in the interviewing process of new team members.
What you’ll bring
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You are proactive and self-motivated
- You are a leader and can get the team excited about their work
- You will be a natural ‘people person’ and known for fostering relationships amongst peers and clients alike
- You think strategically and have good commercial awareness in addition to technical expertise
- You are solutions focussed - you can identify problems and quickly reach resolutions
- You are a self-learner - you are constantly looking for ways to upskill and share knowledge with those around you
- You are meticulous and detail oriented
Skills, experience & qualifications
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Relevant industry experience in a similar role or related field
- Experience of leading a DevOps team and people management
- Experience of architecting, building and supporting infrastructure
- Knowledge of AWS cloud and a wide range of its services - Lambda, Cloudfront, API Gateway, EC2, S3, ECS, etc
- Good hands-on knowledge of infrastructure as code using Terraform
- Knowledge and understanding of open server stack including Linux, Apache, MySQL
- Keen eye for process automation
- Experience in Git and Git workflows
- Experience in developing Continuous Integration/ Continuous Delivery pipelines (CI/CD) eg GitHub Actions, Jenkins
- Experience of software containerisation platforms and tools e.g. Docker, Kubernetes
- Experience of monitoring, logging and alerting using tools like CloudWatch or Nagios
- Experience of incident management
- Experience of managing sysadmin / DevOps projects and releases
- Experience working closely with DevOps teams to define best in class architecture
- Experience of working in a fast-paced commercial environment where products have to be delivered to fixed timescales.
- Experience working collaboratively with internal delivery teams and senior management
- Experience using Jira/Confluence
- Experience in capacity management
- Familiar with Agile methodologies, iterative and incremental development
- Experience of working in a fast-paced environment where products have to be delivered to fixed timescales.
- Experience working with development teams to troubleshoot problems throughout the lifetime of an application
Desirable
- Experience in languages including Javascript (React/Node.js), PHP or Python
- Experience working with Azure or Google Cloud Platform
- Experience of leading development teams
- Experience of presenting to clients
- Experience within the creative and/or tech industries or an agency background
- Proficient in Bash scripting
How we’ll remunerate and develop you
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We pay competitive salaries that are annually industry and location benchmarked.
- You join an award-winning company, recognised by Great Place to Work®, where your contributions are highly valued.
- You join a team that delivers impactful work that is purposeful and meaningful.
- We offer a flexible hybrid working option.
- Company pension contribution.
- Private Health Insurance.
- Discretionary annual employee bonus.
- 21 days holiday and 3 days paid Christmas leave during holiday closure.
- Additional loyalty annual leave at key milestones.
- Personal annual development budget and time allocation.
- Fully subsidised personal training twice per week.
- Weekly yoga sessions.
- Mental health first aid training.
- Annual company holiday weekend.
- Electric vehicle scheme and free charging.
- 2x paid charity volunteering days
- Free parking on-site at our Box based studio.
Aer Studios are an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and freelancers.
