Things We Expect You to Know:

• Minimum six (6) years of experience in Cloud computing based service architecture including at least 2 years with leadership responsibilities
• Hands on experience public cloud providers (AWS, Google, Azure etc)
• An established history of working in agile teams
• A firm practitioner of DevOps/SRE principles
• A deep understanding of distributed system design and dependency management
• Experience in leading Software Engineering, DevOps and/or SRE teams.
• Work closely with the business and Engineers on issues related to design and requirements
• Ensure that engineering best practices standards, policies and procedures are adhered to
• Drive change to implement efficient and effective strategies as advised by management
• Work closely with product manager and scrum master to fully understand the business requirement
• Gain enough domain knowledge to be able to actively participate in specifying software solutions for business requirements
• Ensure that projects are accurately estimated and delivered to schedule
• Show flexibility to respond to the changing needs of the business
• Assume a high level of ownership of all work developed by members of the team
• Train and integrate new team members and proactively support the continued development of existing team members
• Support management to implement team goals and objectives
• Supervise, train, guide and inspire team members
• How to collaborate with a globally distributed team of engineers using tools like chat

Our Tools of the Trade
We work at the moment with the following tools, we understand everyone will do a bit of learning on the job, but you will need to be able to meaningfully contribute to a selection of these tools,
Required:

• Must work well on an engineering team
• AWS
• Git
• Agile tools(Jira) and practises,

Must have considerable experience with at least 3 of the items below:

• Ansible
• Cloudformation /Terraform
• Gitlab
• python

Must have solid experience with at least 1 of the languages below:

• Go
• Java
• NodeJS
• Python

Nice to have:

• Hands on experience with Gitlab
• Experience in working in a agile environment

Desirable Skills

• Experience of working with or contributing directly to Open Source projects
• Understanding and experience of leading/managing technology products
• Delivering web-scale products to a global market at high release velocity

Educational Skills

• Master’s Degree or Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Preferred Professional Qualifications

• AWS certified solution architect associate.
• Certified Scrum Master

Personal Skills

• Ability to Influence technical decision making
• Previous experience of contributing to war rooms and blameless postmortems
• Superb communication skills, written and verbal
• Experience of working in a true DevOps environment with daily collaborations
• Experience screening new candidates to join the team
• English as a business language