DevOps Lead

Job Description:

Job Title: Senior DevOps Engineer
PE Positions: 12
Department: Technology (Engineering and Architecture, and Innovation)
Location: London/Manchester
Reports To: Lead DevOps Engineer
Direct Reports: n/a
Background: This is an exciting time to join Dentsu as we focus on becoming a 100% digital economy business through content, media and commerce. We are well placed to build capability, scale and sustainable
growth as a high performance business. Our strategy is driven by our unique culture with one vision (to innovate the way brands are built), one set of values and a unique operating model which
drives collaboration, client focus and attention.
Within the Engineering and Architecture, and Innovation function at Dentsu, we are developing key initiative that will drive technology strategy, rationalisation and impact;
The Dentsu Tech Platform Engineering initiative will be responsible for providing platform services, frameworks, blueprints and tools that enable all Dentsu development teams and beyond with
the essential capabilities to rapidly deliver robust, scalable and secure applications for use by our operational teams, and our clients.
Role Overview: As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will be a subject matter expert in DevOps practices and tooling. You will have a background in infrastructure engineering and a track record of designing and
delivering large-scale, highly available systems. You will be a strong advocate for the team and share assets, ideas, designs, approaches and successes with other product delivery teams. You will
be able to balance your engineering skills with strategy and design leadership.
We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial
intelligence, and containerisation. We need our leaders to be versatile, fearless, free thinking, innovative, disruptive, enthusiastic in taking on new problems and inspirational to their reports and peers
alike.
Responsibilities:
Collaborate closely with leads to deliver secure, reliable, robust and scalable solutions.
Identify and implement DevOps engineering best practices in conjunction with your peers, both within Platform Engineering and Technology as a whole
Ensure the use of continuous delivery pipelines and tools to fully automate deployment, testing, delivery, and management of development, QA and production systems on a variety of cloud
platforms
Troubleshoot and take ownership of issues in development, test and production environments. Including performance optimization and continuous tuning
Continuous learning and evaluation of the latest approaches, tools, and technologies.
Continually collaborate, inspire and think outside of the box to conceive of and build solutions to place Dentsu ahead of the curve and be a leading contributor to DevOps innovation within the
industry.
Key Skills and
Experience: Must be from a UNIX / Linux sys-admin background
Expert knowledge in container orchestration technologies (emphasis on Kubernetes)
Expert knowledge of continuous integration and automated testing
Experience in one or more popular CI platforms (e.g. Jenkins, Bamboo, Travis, Brigade)
Experience with Helm package manager
Strong experience in at least one major cloud platform
knowledge of Ansible and Terraform
Strong TCP/IP skills
Good understanding of PKI
Expert scripting skills (bash/sh/ksh)
Experience in another language (e.g. golang, javascript, python, Perl)
Candidate
Profile: A thought leader, not afraid to challenge and disrupt pre-conceived ideas and approaches.
A passionate advocate of automated testing and continuous deployment
Ability to quickly learn and adapt to emerging techniques, frameworks, and platforms
Able to switch easily between strategy/leadership/management and hands-on engineering responsibilities
Excellent communication, stakeholder management and collaboration skills

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