Lead DevOps Engineer

ParentPay Group - India

Pune City

On-site

INR 1,200,000 - 1,800,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

A leading software product company is seeking a Lead DevOps Engineer to provide technical leadership and hands-on expertise in Azure technologies. The ideal candidate will have experience managing cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines, ensuring best practices in security and availability. This full-time position offers a dynamic environment with opportunities for continuous improvement and innovation.

Qualifications

Proven experience leading DevOps engineering teams in a matrix management setup.
Extensive hands-on experience with Azure technologies including Azure Kubernetes Service.
Strong understanding of CI/CD principles and practices.

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership and authority in a matrix management function.
Hands-on development and management of Azure infrastructure.
Ensure implementation of security and high availability best practices.

Skills

Microsoft Azure technologies

Agile methodologies

Infrastructure as code

Continuous Improvement

Tools

Azure DevOps

Terraform

Git

Job description

Overview

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ParentPay Group is Europe’s leading software product company and the UK’s largest education technology business. We are on a mission to bring next-generation innovation to positively impact the lives of millions of parents, teachers, and students every day in over 49 countries.

Department: Engineering

Location: Pune, India

Our market leading products use cutting edge cloud-based technology to streamline school processes, including secure web and mobile apps that enable secure online payments for school items such as meals, trips, clubs and uniform, improve parental engagement, simplify meal management and - through our product SIMS - collect and manage a database of student information and core school operations.

ParentPay Group’s new offices in Pune are a fantastic tech hub for those looking to boost their careers in software product development.

Our bright team FastTrack their career with international exposure and ways of working based on agile development best practices from globally renowned technology consultancies.

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership within a matrix management function whereby you will have dotted (indirect) line reporting of the DevOps engineers. In practice this means that you will have responsibility and authority for the technical remit of the DevOps engineers but not have line management responsibilities freeing you up to focus on adding value within the technical domain as an individual contributor.
Be hands-on using a wide range of Microsoft Azure technologies such as Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Key Vault, Azure Service Bus etc. In addition, project management in an agile scrum format, source control (git), build and deployment are handled within Azure DevOps. Finally our platform is built as infrastructure as code using Terraform.
Evaluate the technical landscape taking ownership and accountability of the cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines ensuring standards are set and maintained in line with the Head of Architecture and Regional Architects.
Responsibility for ensuring that cost to serve is accounted for with all designs proposed and retroactively evaluating existing infrastructure.
Hands on with developing new processes where they do not exist and continuously improving current processes.
Ensure Security, High Availability, Disaster Recovery, and all current best practices.
Ensure Alerting and Monitoring of the current Infrastructure.
Propose solutions for automation for build, test and deploy of Infra components and ensure that they are followed.
Actively participate in architectural governance forums such as centre of excellence (CoE) and technical guilds. Furthermore, ensure that decisions made are followed through within the teams.
Work collaboratively with the Group Director of Architecture, Head of Architecture, and fellow architects to influence and steer technical leads as well as their teams towards pragmatic decisions as well as communicate team progress.
Undertake R&D, prototype new approaches, technologies, techniques and ensure knowledge sharing to streams.

Key Responsibilities

Driving outcomes: focuses on results and desired outcomes and how best to achieve them.
Able to execute plans through to action. Persistent to complete tasks and a strong commitment to take action that moves things along to ensure delivery of objectives.
Ownership & accountability: takes personal accountability and ownership for their work. This includes personal follow through, making and defending difficult decisions and trade-offs, removing blockers, driving collective progress.
Continuous Improvement: advances by ongoing, incremental improvement through continuous learning, pair-programming, questioning the status quo and trying out creative and novel ideas. Shows curiosity and has a keen interest to drive learning for themselves and others.
Pragmatic in approach, understanding that software and its architecture are fundamentally about trade-offs. What works today may not work tomorrow, evolutionary architecture is the goal.
Ability to work in a team of very experienced individuals, understands that egos are not productive, ability to listen and provide objective feedback.
A lot more focus should be on leading by example and mentoring across all the teams to ensure that the team are successful within their remit.

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