What you will bring
A desire to drive your future and accelerate your career. You will bring experience and knowledge in:
- Working collaboratively with multiple vendors
- Leading complex projects - project management
- Stakeholder management and influencing skills
- Managing infrastructure services delivery, support and excellence
- Working in global IT function with regional or global responsibilities in an environment like Mondel z International
- Working with IT outsourcing providers using frameworks such as the IT Infrastructure Library
- Working with internal and external teams and leading when necessary
Roles & Responsibilities
- Sets out DevOps Platform strategy and roadmap in line with wider Business & IT strategy to facilitate effective software deployment across the organization.
- Leads the design and implementation of processes, practices and tools enabling CI/CD, maximizing the speed and quality of software delivery and minimizing unit costs across digital platforms.
- Manages build automation, release, deployment, and configuration activities of the DevOps platform, setting appropriate milestones & KPIs and working within an Agile framework.
- Define CICD / Automation security requirements (e.g. least privilege principle).
- Define security testing requirements (such as static/dynamic analysis security testing, vulnerability scanning, penetration testing, etc.).
- Promote security-left (security coding convention, unit tests, static analyzers), so that security should be built into the product, rather than applied to the finished product.
- Manages tool and vendor selection across development automation activities to ensure that tooling is fit for purpose for an enterprise-grade software deployment automation & DevOps platform.
- Owns, leads and drives systems engineering, software delivery automation and CI/CD practices across all digital platforms.
- Follows industry trends and developments to better meet wider business & IT goals and ensure that the DevOps platform ecosystem is at the cutting edge of enterprise-grade software development automation systems.
- Bringing in the right DevOps mindset among the teams developing software, which would mean conducting training on tools and processes that makes software development and testing easier.
- Drive increased maturity on the cloud DevOps capabilities including advanced CI/CD and metrics.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor s degree in computer science, Business, a related discipline, or equivalent work experience.
- Good knowledge of DevOps CI/CD workflows, tools and integration points and experience integrating security into SDLC.
- Proven track record of architecting/implementing end to end pipelines that cover the entire SDLC.
- Experience of having Implemented CI / CD tools such as GitHub, Bamboo, Jenkins, Connect All and JFrog including the build of pipelines.
- Drive continuous improvement for supported applications, in areas such as monitoring, operational task automation, continuous integration, deployments and performance tuning.
- Investigate and resolve complex and multi-faceted issues, spanning the entire technology stack, which requires working across teams and technology boundaries.
- Proactively improve key metrics, such as up-time, application performance, and other key operational SLOs, SLAs.
- Organized and prioritized work to complete assignments in a timely, efficient manner.
- Deep understanding of modern DevOps platform technologies incl. infrastructure-as-code and containers.
- Good knowledge/experience of the Application Security space and tools.
- Extensive experience with agile methodologies.
- Extensive experience working in a cloud native environment.
- Understanding of software engineering principals.
- Knowledge of containerization tools and approaches would be desirable.
- Ability to communicate and present technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Ability to Influence others to achieve buy-in to proposed solutions / recommendations.
