Lead DevOps Engineer London, England
Job description
ABOUT ZENOBE
Our goal is to make clean power accessible, to accelerate the shift to zero carbon power and transport.
We’re transforming grids to enable the take up of more renewables, electrifying fleets for cleaner air, repurposing electric vehicle batteries for clean portable power and using proprietary software and data analysis to optimise operational performance for our customers.
We have 225 MW of operational and under construction grid scale battery capacity and over 30% of the UK’s EV buses, and are expanding our operations in Australia, New Zealand, US and Europe.
We’re a rapidly growing company looking for talented people to join us.
THE OPPORTUNITY
Are you someone who has a passion for DevSecOps principles and best practices, a deep understanding of advanced automation toolsets for CI/CD infrastructure, and the ability to lead and provide direction in a continuously changing and competitive technology landscape?
We are currently looking for a DevSecOps Team Lead to join our product team that are currently busy with a lot of exciting projects. The right candidate will not only be able to demonstrate their leadership skills but will also be a technical advisor for their department.
What you will contribute:
- Be the subject matter expert and evangelist of DevSecOps best practices & principles across the organisation.
- Increase the efficiency and agility of our DevSecOps team by improving processes and reducing technical debt.
- Build and deliver self-service platforms that create environments, test and deploy code, advance our CI/CD infrastructure to help reach our deployment goals.
- Help to advance collaboration between DevSecOps & various Development teams to improve communication and overall productivity across the organisation.
- Mentor product engineering team members, who are at various levels of their careers, to increase their skills, abilities, knowledge, and foster overall growth.
- Work closely with Operations and Product Leadership to properly translate solutions into engineering and operational activities and tasks.
- Works with Product Management to provide estimates, timelines, project plans and status reports to the rest of the organisation for DevSecOps related projects.
A TASTE OF THE DAY TO DAY
- Lead a team of (two) DevSecOps engineers responsible for the design, coding, and integration of new and innovative products.
- Lead DevSecOps Engineers involved in creating technology infrastructure, automation tools, security testing, and maintaining configuration management.
- Working in a DevSecOps/Continuous Delivery environment and operational support of live applications.
- Working with Product Managers, Business Analysts, Technical Architects and Test Engineers to help shape and define the work of your team.
- Solving operational issues, including working under a DevSecOps model.
- Communicate the vision from senior management and set and communicate business objectives for your team that align with this vision.
- Working with third party (partners/service providers) where necessary providing direction, support and documentation.
- Mentorship to other engineers within the team.
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
We realise that certain groups of people are less likely to apply for a role if they don’t meet 100% of the job requirements. To be absolutely clear: if you like the look of this job and think you could do it well, we encourage you to apply with a CV that highlights your transferable skills and experience. Above all, Zenobē is looking for collaborative, flexible, empathetic people who are interested in creating and promoting practical routes to a zero carbon world.
- 8+ years of demonstrated ability in DevSecOps, Infrastructure Delivery, and technical operations.
- Experience building large and geographically disperse infrastructure supporting business-critical cloud & on-premises services.
- Experience of leading and managing DevSecOps/Software Engineers.
- Hands-on experience with professional software engineering best practices for the full SDLC, including coding standards, code reviews, build processes, testing, and operations.
- Cloud infrastructure. Experience with AWS. Building and managing CI/CD pipelines and DevSecOps standard methodologies.
- Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, AWS CDK, Ansible, AWS CloudFormation etc.
- Communicating effectively with both technical and non-technical colleagues at all levels in an organisation.
WORKING AT ZENOBE
We’re passionate about sustainability and are proud to offer Team Zenobē a pioneering and collaborative working environment. We encourage our people to take ownership of their career progression and celebrate those that can think outside the box.
If you’d like to join our community of likeminded people hit the apply button now, we’d love to hear from you!
WHAT WE OFFER
Charge your career at Zenobē and receive
- Up to 20% annual bonus for being awesome
- 25 days holiday, plus bank holidays
- Private Medical Insurance, for you and the family
- £1500 training budget per year, to ensure you grow as we do
- EV Salary Sacrifice Scheme
- Pension scheme, up to 8% matched contributions
- Enhanced parental leave
- Cash back health plan
- Plus more
Lots of our people work flexibly in many different ways, including part-time, flexitime and hybrid working. We can’t promise to give you exactly what you want, but please talk to us about the flexibility you need and let’s see how we can make it work.
OUR APPROACH TO DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION
Our people are our strongest asset and the key determinant of our success, and we value a range of skillsets and perspectives. As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute. We work to provide equal opportunities and an inclusive work environment, where everyone is fairly treated in the application process and through their career at Zenobē. If there are any adjustments that would help improve your experience with Zenobē, please let us know when you apply.
