Location: Westbury | Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + Benefits |
Sector: Defence | Specialism: |
Type: Permanent | Contact: Jack Pleon |
DevOps Technical Lead
Westbury
PERMANENT
Brief
We have an exciting opportunity for a Lead DevOps Engineer to be based at our site in Westbury (Wiltshire) although there is an opportunity to conduct much of the work remotely. This role will involve leading a small team of engineers and taking responsibility for the ongoing development and support of the client which is deployed at a number of customer sites around the UK and plays a key role in the UKMFTS (UK Military Flight Training System) capability. You will be heavily involved in helping to shape the team in the UK and establishing and maintaining a business rhythm.
Note that occasional travel will be required to customer sites across the UK.
The successful candidate will be responsible for performing a range of software and systems engineering duties and system administration tasks for the UKMFTS (UK Military Flying Training System) programme. Typical duties may include:
- Leading and mentoring the software team responsible for implementation of the CI/CD strategy
- Designing, implementing and monitoring the TMIS software build and deployment pipeline
- Driving the development and testing of new features
- Managing software releases and ensuring that application issues are resolved in a timely manner
- Implementing and leading an Agile-based development cycle, including daily team meetings and retrospectives, task estimation and prioritisation, planning, demonstration and reporting activities
- Communicating on a daily basis with key internal and external stakeholders
- Assisting the team with troubleshooting, database administration, and development of code and scripts
Required Skills:
- Proven experience in leading software teams in an Agile environment
- Solid understanding of the full software development lifecycle
- Practical knowledge of Jira
- Web application development using Java (including JSP), JavaScript, HTML and CSS
- Experience in using and administrating relational databases
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to create presentation material
- Excellent customer service skills
Desired Skills:
- Agile certification (e.g. Scrum Master)
- Requirements analysis and management (e.g. DOORS)
- System and software design (e.g. UML, SysML)
- Practical experience in using scripts to automate processes (e.g. Powershell)
- Web Server administration and configuration (e.g. Apache Tomcat, WildFly)
- JavaScript development using jQuery, and Angular and/or DHTMLX frameworks
- Practical experience in using the Hibernate framework
- Experience with Oracle SQL
- Regular use of message-based middleware and protocols, e.g. (ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ, REST, SOAP)
- Experience of fault finding web-based, database technologies and complimentary operating systems
- Experience with Hyper-V and/or VMware
- Experience with Oracle SQL
- Practical knowledge of Windows and Windows Server administration.
Please note that eligibility for UK security clearance up to SC level is required for the DevOps Technical Lead position.
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