DevOps Lead

Join Europe's leading, high-growth Google Cloud consultancy. At Qodea, you'll be part of a team energised by innovation and passionate about delivering exceptional results. We craft cutting-edge solutions in data and analytics, AI, cloud infrastructure and security, driving digital transformation that empowers our customers to scale, modernise and lead in their industries. We're driven by ideas and powered by our people.

We are looking for a DevOps Lead to become a highly trusted advisor to our customers and drive internal standards.

We really value in-person collaboration, so we're looking for you to spend at least 60% of your time on-site. This means being at our company offices or at a client's site.

How You'll Shape Our Success:

The purpose of this role is to work closely with our team and ensure that the projects we develop for our customers are aligned to their requirements.

What You'll Do:

• Act as a trusted advisor to customers, developing a deep understanding of their technical challenges and leveraging GCP technologies, patterns and practices to address them effectively.
• Provide expert technical guidance and mentorship to platform engineers, fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement
• Design highly available, cloud native platforms tailored to customer needs
• Advise customers on modern software development and architecture techniques such as 12 factor applications, microservices and serverless architectures
• Develop internal tooling for the wider Platform Team, that can help us to do more, and be more effective
• Develop and implement with your team's help, automations and ways of working with the sole  objective of increasing the efficiency  within the team.
• Collaborate with customers and our Pre-sales Team/ CSM team to translate requirements into technical designs and guide the process through to solution delivery
• Act as a trustworthy advisor  for our customers, ensuring they  will obtain the best advice and required guidance on what the solution for their business needs  could be.
• Identify the long term impact of designs, advising stakeholders of the risk and suggesting potential secure solutions, or involving the relevant stakeholders  from within Qodea.
• Proactively pursue the decision making process required to drive the  team to  success, including potential cost analysis  based on (amongst  other things) time management related conclusions.
• Partner with our support teams to support the shift left activities
• Keep abreast of technology developments, ensuring the Qodea business remains ahead of the technology curve.
• Represent Qodea in external engagements with Google and the wider tech community, when applicable. We can align this to your strengths, for example technical writing or presenting at events.

Requirements
What You'll Need to Succeed:

• Strong experience with Docker and Kubernetes in production environments, with a deep understanding of container orchestration and management.
• Proficient in infrastructure as code (IaC) using tools like Terraform, and comfortable with configuration management tooling such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or Salt.
• Expert-level understanding of Linux operating systems (e.g., Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS) with experience in some systems administration and troubleshooting
• Experience with continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) tools, such as Jenkins, ArgoCD, or similar pipelines, with a focus on automation and reliability
• Solid knowledge of modern internet protocols and patterns, including but not limited to GRPC, GraphQL, REST APIs, and related tools.
• Proven experience in a cloud focussed delivery role (DevOps or Software Development)
• You're proactive and you like to solve problems. You want to get involved and make things happen, ensuring the best outcomes for your team, the business and our customers
• Previous experience in a consultancy or professional services role
• Previous experience  in a  leadership type of role
• Solid knowledge of cloud architecture principles and highly available systems
• Understanding of application development, delivery and infrastructure automation
• Comfortable writing production-quality software in at least one general-purpose programming language (e.g. Python, Go, JavaScript, Java, C++)

How You'll Grow:

Exceptional performance in this role can lead to advancement opportunities within our career framework or internal opportunities with other business areas, aligned with your career aspirations and business needs.

Benefits

Financial:

• Discretionary company bonus scheme
• Employee referral scheme
• Meal Vouchers

Health & Wellbeing:

• Health Care Package
• Life and Health Insurance
• Bookster

Time Off & Flexibility:

• 28 days of annual leave
• Floating bank holidays
• An extra paid day off on your birthday.
• Ten paid learning days per year.
• Flexible working hours
• Sabbatical leave (after 5 years).
• Work from anywhere (up to 3 weeks per year).

Development & Recognition:

• Industry-recognised training & certifications.
• Bonusly: employee recognition and rewards platform.
• Clear opportunities for career development.
• Length of Service Awards.

Extra Perks:

• Regular company events.

Diversity and Inclusion Statement

At Qodea, we champion diversity and inclusion. We believe that a career in IT should be open to everyone, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, age, sexual orientation, disability or neurotype. We value the unique talents and perspectives that each individual brings to our team, and we strive to create a fair and accessible hiring process for all. If you feel we can improve in any way, please reach out to our careers team via email at or connect with us on LinkedIn via our Qodea Company Page.

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