Development Ops Manager

St. John Ambulance; London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Join St. John Ambulance as a DevOps Engineer Manager, overseeing a team dedicated to developing scalable software solutions within a supportive environment. The role involves technical leadership, collaboration with project teams, and adherence to best practices in software development, contributing to vital community services.

Benefits

33 days holiday (increasing to 38 over 5 years)

Cycle to Work Scheme

Health and Wellbeing portal access

Employee Assistance Programme

NHS Discounts and more

Qualifications

• Education to degree level in computing or equivalent commercial experience.
• Experience in working with ITIL in a commercial setting.
• Deep technical skills and understanding of DevOps practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead and line manage the DevOps Engineers within assigned squads.
• Provide technical design input for new solutions or changes.
• Contribute to the technical solution design ensuring alignment with strategy.

Skills

Technical Leadership

DevOps Methodology

Code Review

Optimization

SOLID Principles

Education

Degree in Computing or Related Subject

ITIL Foundation Certification

Job description

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DevOps Engineer Manager - Permanent

Full Time - Hybrid Working

Our offer to you

We pride ourselves in being a great place to work, providing a supportive culture with opportunities to grow and develop your career, achieve a healthy work life balance and to be recognised for the great work you do. You will receive:

• Competitive salary and pension scheme
• 33 days holiday (inclusive of bank holidays) - increasing to 38 days over 5 years
• Hybrid, Flexible working
• Cycle to work scheme Electric Vehicle Scheme
• Health and Wellbeing portal - access to financial, health and wellbeing support and an Employee Assistance Programme
• Discounts - you will have access to Blue Light and NHS Discounts as well as discounts on mobile phones, gym membership, cinema tickets, restaurants, holidays and shopping

About Us

This is a fantastic opportunity to join a team of over 1,700 employees and over 29500 volunteers, united by our goal of saving lives through essential first aid services, training and campaigning. As a charity with rich heritage and a long history of serving humanity, we are proud of our past and excited about creating a healthier, safer, more resilient future.

St John Ambulance works at the heart of communities, supporting and enabling them to access and receive physical and mental health first aid. We do this through developing and providing effective community response and outreach services (e.g. Ambulance response, Falls response, Night Time Economy and Homelessness outreach) and using our longstanding expertise to empower people with vital clinical skills and the confidence to use them (e.g. our Volunteers and Community Advocates, NHS Cadets and Young Responders programmes). There is also a buoyant social enterprise network which delivers first aid training and supplies medical consumables to businesses and consumers.

Job Summary

The postholder is responsible for leading the development of high-quality software and managing and supporting our technology platforms and systems as part of the DevOps team. Working within multifunctional DevOps Squads they will develop scalable solutions adhering to best practice design principles and coding standards and ensure exceptional service and solution delivery.

With exposure across the full development lifecycle, they work on a variety of projects and programmes. They provide technical leadership and line management to support the DevOps Engineers across the team.

The post-holder works to challenging deadlines; leveraging and utilising existing and new technology platforms to their fullest; keep up to date with external legislative requirements; and ensuring minimum interruption to all services at all times.

About You

To be successful in this role, education to Degree in computing or related subject; or equivalent relevant commercial experience, ITIL Foundation certified or equivalent experience working with ITIL in a commercial setting, experience in working to a DevOps Methodology, experience in code review, optimization, branching and release lifecycle & Excellent depth of technical skills, and able to apply SOLID principles when designing new solutions.

About the Role

• Working closely with the Head of DevOps to Lead and line manage the DevOps Engineers
• Work to a DevOps methodology within assigned squads under the direction of the Product Owner
• Provide technical design input and leadership for new solutions or changes to existing systems
• Lead technical development on key projects, working alongside existing team members and providing coaching and support where require
• Contribute towards the Technical Solution design where appropriate, to include security, platforms and technical stacks, ensuring alignment with the overall technical strategy, business operations and associated processes

Please see the job description for more detail (this can be viewed on our website or once you click apply)

Find out more about us, including our new Ask Me campaign, at www.sja.org.uk

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For all other candidates, or St John Ambulance volunteers wishing to apply: please apply below

We reserve the right to close this vacancy early if we receive high volume of applications for the role. Therefore, if you are interested, please submit your application as early as possible.

St John Ambulance are committed to increasing the diversity of our team and making sure we best reflect the diversity of the communities we serve. At St John, everyone is valued and supported to thrive, we have several networks including Multi Culture, Disability and Accessibility, Pride, Family and Carers and Women's groups. We do not tolerate any form of discrimination and engender a sense of belonging for all, by creating an environment of mutual respect, where we value unique differences and demonstrate authentic allyship. We believe passionately in equality, diversity and inclusion.

Please note: St John does not accept speculative CVs and will only review CVs sent in application for an advertised vacancy.