Tech Lead

Job description

Key responsibilities & Accountabilities:

* As a member of the Platform Development team, build the tools that evolve our Azure cloud infrastructure in a safe, reliable, automated and cost-effective manner enabling our proprietary technology development teams to have the best possible development experience.

* Provide expertise and input in to the design and implementation of IaC automation to serve the needs of our application hosting, with particular focus on consistency, security and developer enablement

* Participate in planning efforts with stakeholders and IT department

* Help define and enforce security guidelines for engineering work

* On failure events, work on fixing the issues and communicating with senior members of the team

* Work as part of a small team and successfully manage your own tasks according to the larger needs of the business

Skills & Ability

* Good understanding of database concepts and management

* Experience with containers (Kubernetes) / service mesh / orchestration is a plus

* Good understanding of Azure Platform Engineering, especially in relation to automation and yaml pipelines

* Excellent understanding of DevOps-centric concepts

* Good general infrastructure knowledge, including networking basics

* Good general development skills

Knowledge & Experience

* Enterprise experience of Azure

* Excellent understanding of SDLC best practises

* Excellent understanding of Infrastructure as Code / Desired State Configuration (Terraform, Ansible, etc)

* Advanced level of experience using command line/scripting tools such as Azure CLI, Bash and Powershell

* A relevant degree with IT/Technology or equivalent professional certifications