Role Overview
The Lead DevOps Engineer role can be divided into three distinct responsibilities:
* provide hands‑on technical leadership and guidance through coaching and mentoring
* lead the sharing of knowledge and good practice
* act as a technical product owner, developing medium to long term strategies for product lines
Managing
* Line management duties for DevOps engineers.
* A lead DevOps engineer leads one or a small number of related project teams and contributes to the development of the strategic direction.
Main Duties
Main duties consist of but are not limited to:
* Work in one or many cross‑functional teams to lead DevOps expertise and decision making across the whole software delivery lifecycle
* Produce and assure DevOps technical designs based on business needs and providing justification for decision‑making in chosen technical design.
* Providing deep DevOps technical expertise and DevOps technical leadership to project delivery teams, identifying and selecting appropriate DevOps technical solutions based on user needs and business requirements
* Play an integral part in the DevOps Community of Practice sharing expertise to build the overall capability of the team
* Analyse the impact of DevOps technical choices on business processes
* Enable the reuse of patterns, tools, and components across the DevOps profession
* Provides DevOps technical leadership, guidance, and support for the broader DevOps community.
* Assure that DevOps technical solutions follow all agreed processes and best practises, particularly around security and governance
* Mentor one or more DevOps Engineers supporting them in their professional development as well as using your expertise to guide them in key and critical decision making.
* When needed light line management duties for DevOps engineers.
* Lead on developing, implementing, enhancing and managing technical DevOps practices into the DevOps and Engineering profession
* Leading on alignment of DevOps approaches across the department
* Collaborate with the broader DevOps and Architecture community to ensure that solutions align with target architectures and technology roadmaps
* Contribute to the overall technology strategy and roadmap for both individual projects and IT
* Collaborate with stakeholders, providing direction and challenge to proposals impacting DevOps principles.
* Contributing to decisions and directions in a collaborative team environment, including but not limited to estimations, product planning, user stories (requirement) creation
* Applying a continuous improvement mindset to identify and explore opportunities to improve processes and ways of working
* Engage with Leads across IT, to drive the department strategic vision and collaborate on wider initiatives
* Horizon scanning and continuous research on emerging DevOps principles and best practices.
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