Position: DevOps Team Lead
Company: Ciklum
Experience required: 5y
Category: DevOps
English level: upper
Published: 2023-02-01T00:00:00+02:00

About the role:

As a DevOps Team Lead, become a part of a cross-functional development team working for the TUI.

We are looking for a DevOps Team Lead to provide enterprise-level assistance to our customers. You will lead the DevOps team and build new infrastructure and pipelines, supporting and improving the environment’s stability, and helping developers build their application and deliver it to the cloud environments.

About Quality Engineering Team:

Quality Engineering Center of Excellence is an international award-winning Quality Engineering department that has rapidly evolved over the past 7 years to become a mature Quality Engineering service provider with 250+ professionals working in 7 main  directions: QA Consulting and Management, DevOps, Manual, Automation, Support, Performance, Cyber Security and Robotic Process Automation.

Our main principles are:

People are over processes and hierarchy
Flat and open collaboration/communication increases creativity and brings more value to a business
Investing in people and innovations ensures your future
Reuse and share your experience – Develop best practices, publicize and follow them
Quality Engineering Center of Excellence is an optimal environment for your professional involvement and growth.

Responsibilities
Leadership activities: managing DevOps team, collaborating with developers, QAs, and architect
Act as a technical acceptance point for the DevOps team on a project
Create concepts and designs for CI/CD pipelines
Create an automated Deployment Pipeline to ship applications and infrastructure to production:
Provide clear reporting of the pipelines to all teams
Support the teams to use the pipeline
Troubleshoot issues and remove blockers with the pipeline to maintain the flow
Measure the pipeline and use this data to prioritize work to continually improve it
Provide centralized monitoring, logging, reporting, and alerting tooling that the development teams integrate with
Collaboration with Dev and QA teams in:
Resolving issues and clearing blockers
Priorities changes
Providing environments
Support of the releases
Quality gates implementation
Scheduled on-call support
Ensure operational readiness in production for new features, i.e of provisioning of new infrastructure components, monitoring processes etc.
Upskill DevOps team to self-resolve common issues
Support the transformation of customer applications into a decoupled serviceorientated architecture

Requirements
Hands-on experience with cloud infrastructure provisioning and deployment on AWS; using services like Aurora, Lambda, ECS, RDS, ELB, EC2, S3, CloudFront, Route53, SES, etc.
Hands-on experience with Jenkins (BitBucket, GitLabCI or similar) in developing and maintaining CI/CD processes for applications deployed to a cloud
Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code using automation tools/ configuration management systems like Terraform or AWS CloudFormation
Familiarity with logging and monitoring technologies such as Dynatrace, DataDog, Prometheus, AWS CloudWatch, ELK stack, PagerDuty and so on
Ansible and Packer
Good knowledge with Linux environments and automation scripting (bash or python)
Strong knowledge of best DevOps practices and methodologies
English upper-intermediate and higher
Desirable
Building AWS infrastructure from scratch
Experience with large-scale, real-time applications
Experience building and deploying complex systems to the cloud

What's in it for you
Care: your mental and physical health is our priority. We ensure comprehensive company-paid medical insurance, Mental Health programs, as well as financial and legal consultations
Tailored education path: boost your skills and knowledge with our regular internal events (meetups, conferences, workshops), Udemy licence, language courses and company-paid certifications
Growth environment: share your experience and level up your expertise with a community of skilled professionals, locally and globally
Flexibility: choose how you want to work – a 100% remote or on-sight in our offices. Own your schedule – you are the one to decide when to start your working day. Just don’t miss your regular team stand-up
Opportunities: we value our specialists and always find the best options for them. Our Internal Mobility Program helps change a project if needed to help you grow, excel professionally and fulfil your potential
Global impact: work on large-scale projects that redefine industries with international and fast-growing clients
Welcoming environment: feel empowered with a friendly team, open-door policy, informal atmosphere within the company and regular team-building events