Responsibilities
- Architect, maintain, and optimise our AWS cloud infrastructure ensuring best practices, security, and cost efficiency, overseeing infrastructure scalability and resilience.
- Manage disaster recovery strategies and ensure regular backups.
- Scrutinise and optimise AWS costs, ensuring the best value without compromising performance or security.
Deployment Automation
- Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration management.
- Maintain and enhance monitoring, logging, and alerting systems.
Security Compliance
- Ensure all infrastructure components are compliant with security standards.
- Monitor systems for any anomalies and potential security breaches.
- Collaborate with the security team to address vulnerabilities and implement patches in a timely manner.
Training & Hiring
- Mentor, guide, and train the team to elevate our DevOps maturity.
- Recognise skill gaps and hire necessary talent to augment the team’s capabilities.
Leadership & Collaboration
- Take full ownership of the DevOps strategy and delivery.
- Liaise with Application Development and maintenance teams to implement DevOps best practices.
- Research and introduce new tools and technologies to optimise DevOps operations.
- Ensure team members are trained on the latest AWS services and DevOps methodologies.
- Drive initiatives to improve efficiency, speed, and quality of deployments.
Qualifications
Graduate
A DevOps Tech Lead must have strong expertise in cloud platforms, CI/CD, automation, containerization, monitoring, and security, with solid Linux and networking knowledge. They should also demonstrate leadership, problem-solving, collaboration, and mentoring skills to drive scalable and reliable delivery.