Senior Team Lead, DevOps

NTT America, Inc.; Johannesburg; Hybrid; ZAR 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

NTT DATA is seeking a Senior Team Lead, DevOps to guide a multi-disciplinary team in delivering scalable and reliable business experiences. You will oversee design, build, release and support while promoting DevOps principles and collaboration across stakeholders.

The role emphasizes operational excellence, automation, and secure, efficient software delivery in a hybrid working environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Information Technology or related field.
• Relevant DevOps certification preferred.
• Agile related certification preferred.
• Understanding of cloud platforms and services (AWS/Azure/GCP).
• Knowledge of scripting languages (e.g., Python, Bash).

Responsibilities

• Lead DevOps team operations across design, build, release and support.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to deliver scalable, reliable services.
• Manage delivery pipelines and continuous integration/deployment.
• Oversee Agile software development lifecycle and security considerations.
• Coordinate testing, production readiness and release processes.

Skills

DevOps leadership

Stakeholder mgmt

Agile/Scrum/Kanban

Team management

Communication skills

Problem solving

Quality management

Cloud concepts

Automation

DevSecOps

Education

Bachelor’s degree in IT or related field

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Make an impact with NTT DATA

Join a company that is pushing the boundaries of what is possible. We are renowned for our technical excellence and leading innovations, and for making a difference to our clients and society. Our workplace embraces diversity and inclusion - it's a place where you can grow, belong and thrive.

Your day at NTT DATA

The Senior Team Lead, DevOps is a developing management role, responsible for collaborating with a variety of business stakeholders to ensure available, scalable and reliable business experiences in the daily management of the DevOps area in the business.

This role strives to drive increased capacity to innovate and expedite the value add to the business and additional responsibilities includes the management of all design, build, release and support activities associated with the relevant portfolio.

The Senior Team Lead, DevOps is responsible for ensuring their team delivers and executes in alignment with solid DevOps principles and practices, whilst inspiring collaboration and innovation focused on operational excellence.

Key responsibilities:

• Manages operations for the DevOps Team and coordinates the efforts of product design and development with the more business-oriented operations and production to achieve successful new product launches.
• Works closely with a variety of internal stakeholders to ensure the execution of the DevOps strategy.
• Designs, develops and implements operational capabilities by overseeing the design, development, and implementation of processes, capabilities, tools and processes.
• Supports with overseeing the product/portfolio lifecycle and ensures the development and operation of an agile software development process all the way through to production.
• Ensures the collaborative development and continuous integration and the early discovery and exposure of integration risks, reduced costs and shortened testing cycles.
• Tests and deploys processes to ensure the creation of processes that are iterative, frequent, repeatable and reliable.
• Manages the development of a delivery pipeline that allows for continuous automated deployment and testing ensuring the release of new enhancements and bug fixes, enabling the practice of continuous delivery.
• Monitors and validates operational quality and ensures early monitoring of the functional and non-functional characteristics by enabling automated testing.
• Manages the outcomes of the tickets opened to ensure the uptime and quality of the production system is always maintained.
• Manages individuals and groups. Allocates responsibilities and/or packages of work, including supervisory responsibilities.
• Coordinates and manages planning of the system and/or acceptance tests, including software security testing, within a development or integration project or program.
• Drafts and maintains procedures and documentation for support and manages enhancements.
• Ensures that all requests for support are dealt with according to set standards and procedures.

To thrive in this role, you need to have:

• Solid technical leadership and oversight of implementation and deployment planning, system integration, ongoing data validation processes, quality assurance, delivery, operations, and sustainability of technical solutions.
• Solid expert technical understanding of the intersection of development and operations (DevOps), monitoring and management tools, and deployment processes and tools.
• Ability in people management, risk management, change management, and project management.
• Excellent judgment, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
• Solid experience working with quality management approaches, techniques, and principles.
• Solid understanding of software development lifecycle best practices.
• Solid technical understanding of development and platform engineering.
• Customer centricity and strong collaboration capabilities with excellent planning skills.
• Solid stakeholder and relationship management.
• Excellent communication skills coupled with exceptional leadership skills.
• Demonstrate an excellent and practical understanding of accepted DevOps principles.

Academic qualifications and certifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent in Information Technology or related field.
• Relevant DevOps certification preferred.
• Agile related certification preferred.
• Understanding and certification of cloud platforms and services (for example, AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Knowledge and certification of scripting and programming languages (for example, Bash, Python, Ruby).

Required experience:

• Solid demonstrated Software Development and Support experience.
• Experience in SOAR playbook development
• SOC experience relating to automation of Incidents and Automation of day to Security operations
• DevSecOps integrates security into an existing DevOps pipeline to balance speed and security, while SecDevOps places security first
• Solid demonstrated experience deploying software solutions to clients in an outsourced or similar IT environment.
• Solid demonstrated experience working in a multi-team environment across multiple geographies.
• Programming/development experience including Agile processes such as SCRUM, KANBAN.
• Solid demonstrated years of team management experience.
• Scrum Master experience

Workplace type

Hybrid Working

About NTT DATA

NTT DATA is a $30+ billion business and technology services leader, serving 75% of the Fortune Global 100. We are committed to accelerating client success and positively impacting society through responsible innovation. We are one of the world's leading AI and digital infrastructure providers, with unmatched capabilities in enterprise-scale AI, cloud, security, connectivity, data centers and application services. Our consulting and industry solutions help organizations and society move confidently and sustainably into the digital future. As a Global Top Employer, we have experts in more than 70 countries. We also offer clients access to a robust ecosystem of innovation centers as well as established and start-up partners. NTT DATA is part of NTT Group, which invests over $3 billion each year in R&D.

Equal Opportunity Employer

NTT DATA is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer with a global culture that embraces diversity. We are committed to providing an environment free of unfair discrimination and harassment. We do not discriminate based on age, race, colour, gender, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, disability, pregnancy, marital status, veteran status, or any other protected category. Join our growing global team and accelerate your career with us.