Lead DevOps Engineer

Full Job Description

At CV-Library we have a clear vision, we want to help the world to work by matching job seekers and businesses on the global platform they need to succeed.  

Our mission is also clear for all our team, we help people find jobs and develop their careers and we help businesses find the talent they need to succeed. This also applies to our own businesses within the CV-Library group too! 

We ensure that every piece of work we do at CV-Library ensures we can achieve this, it makes us who we are! We have a fun and vibrant culture where results are expected, recognised, and rewarded. Our people make us who we are, we also happen to be a very talented bunch! 

As a Lead DevOps Engineer, you will have demonstrable excellent knowledge of AWS DevOps and modern practices including event-driven architecture, CI/CD, and IaC; as well as experience leading and supporting a highly skilled and talented Ops team.

Responsibilities

• Develop, mentor, and support the Ops team fostering career growth and improvement in stability and IT automation
• Define and deliver the strategy, approach, and execution for the DevOps function identifying opportunities for business process improvement and optimisation
• Collaborate closely with our Engineering and Product teams to resolve Incidents quickly and efficiently
• Manage existing Hybrid Cloud/Private Cloud environment, driving the migration of service to AWS
• Spearhead DevOps innovation, applying industry best practise architectures and methodologies in our environments

Requirements

• Experience in a DevOps technical leadership role
• Applicants must be highly motivated, proactive, and have a passion for automation; with a developed sense of integrity and commitment to excellence
• Strong work ethic and team player mentality with rapid decision making and analytical abilities
• Expertise and experience to nurture and coach existing capabilities within our teams
• You will be able to build a Kubernetes Cluster from scratch.
• IaC, Terraform, CloudFormation code expertise, with Python or other development language
• Significant experience with AWS (including serverless), including EKS. Preferably backed by AWS certification
• Expertise in CI/CD - Jenkins / ArgoCD / CircleCI, Docker/Kubernetes, Linux, Microservice Architectures, Agile/SCRUM

We are actively committed to promoting a fully diverse and inclusive workforce and we welcome applications for this role from all candidates who meet the key requirements. Please do not hesitate to get in touch should you require any reasonable adjustments to assist with your application.

Due to the onsite requirement for this role, it would be most suitable for UK based candidates. All applicants must already hold the Right to Work in the UK.