Who We Are:
At Inchcape Shipping Services, our vision is to create a connected world where customers can trade successfully and make informed decisions in every port, everywhere. We achieve this by combining our worldwide infrastructure with local expertise, through our global network of more than 250 proprietary offices and a team of over 3,000 dedicated professionals. Our diverse customer base includes owners and charterers in the oil, cruise, container, and bulk commodity sectors, as well as naval, government, and intergovernmental organisations.
Role Summary:
We have an exciting opportunity for a DevOps Lead to join our team. In this position, you will lead our DevOps function and ensure continuous quality is built into the software development process to minimize defect leakage by strictly adhering to shift-left QA principles and shift-right production testing.
Contract type: Permanent
Location: Remote (UK Based)
Salary: £85,000 - £95,000 per annum (DOE)
In line with company policy, Inchcape does not provide visa sponsorship for candidates and cannot consider applicants who will require this now or in the future.
Key Responsibilities:
- Review and understand ISS enterprise IT and applications architecture, product management and product delivery frameworks
- Review and understand product specific architecture, design, and technology stack, define and setup development, test, release, update, and support processes for DevOps operations
- Design, develop and maintain the development and testing environments
- Monitor the processes during the sprint lifecycle and in production environment for its adherence, updating or creating new processes for improvement and minimizing the wastage
- Configure DevOps tools and develop automated reports on product management, development and operations metrics
- Strive for continuous improvement and build continuous integration, continuous development, and constant deployment pipeline
- Encouraging and building automated processes across the product lifecycle wherever possible
- Identifying and deploying cybersecurity measures by continuously performing vulnerability assessment and risk management
- Incidence management and root cause analysis
- Coordination and communication within the team and with product stakeholders
- Mentoring and guiding the team members
- Monitoring and measuring user experience and product KPIs
- Flexible working providing support out of hours as required
Candidate Requirements:
- A strict Agile practitioner with master level experience in using tools like Jira, Confluence
- Expert level knowledge of DevOps tools like Bitbucket/GitHub, Sonar Cube, CAST, Team City, Jenkins
- Expert level knowledge of telemetry and observability platforms like ELK stack, Grafana, AWS Cloud Watch etc.
- Database technologies preferably RDS Postgres SQL
- Infrastructure as code (terraform)
- Expertise in one or more technologies: XML, JSON, YAML
- Pipeline as code
- Rabbit MQ or AWS MQ.
- AWS cloud native development using EC2, Lambda, S3, Simple Que Service etc.,
- C#, .NET, NodeJS, Web API
- Scripting languages preferably python, PowerShell
- Understanding of SDLC, ITIL processes beneficial.
- Effective verbal & written communication skills
- Excellent analytical, problem solving and trouble shooting skill
- Strong collaborative and partner approach working with global teams.
- Software engineering skills with high tech resilience
- Agile development methodologies
- DevOps mindset and Live site first approach
Experience:
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
- Experience using DevOps tools for CI/CD pipeline and all the DevOps phases
- Experience within a leadership role in DevOps
- Proficiency in configuration management tools such as Ansible, Saltstack, and Puppet, etc.
- Expertise in coding and scripting solutions such as bash, python and power shell, etc
- Experience in containerization (Kubernetes, ECS, Docker etc)
- Excellent knowledge of Linux
You will receive:
- 25 days annual leave entitlement plus bank holidays
- Life assurance cover
- Contributory company pension scheme
- Values Award celebration events
- Team building days
Plus, much more!
Why Inchcape Shipping Services?
We believe in building a diverse and high-performing workforce, that works together to provide our customers with the exceptional service they deserve. To reach the highest standards we depend on our people, their welfare, training, and expertise. We realise the value of our staff and know that your unique experiences, skills, and passions will help you to build a rich and rewarding career in our dynamic industry.
Our values are at the centre of everything we do, and the successful candidate will be expected to demonstrate and fully adopt these:
Global Perspective - we connect the world and see the bigger picture.
The Power of People - we rely on the strength of local agent knowledge and relationships.
Progress - we adopt new thinking and push for positive change in our industry.
Inchcape is an Equal Opportunities Employer - equality, diversity, and inclusion are at the heart of everything we do. Working in a diverse society, we recognise that our customers, colleagues, and contractors are central to our success.
Additional Information:
Appointment to this role will be subject to satisfactory references and possession of a valid Right to Work documentation depending upon your geographical location.
To protect the interests of all parties, Inchcape will not accept unsolicited or speculative resumes from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any fees associated with them.
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