Principal DevOps Engineer

What you'll do:

• Guide large projects autonomously, from technical design to launch
• Promote your team's mission, and anticipate problems that might derail them by improving team and engineering culture and practices.
• Automate testing, deployment, and other tasks related to software delivery
• Manage infrastructure to ensure high availability and performance
• Implement monitoring systems for the infrastructure and applications
• Solve complex architecture challenges, apply architectural standards and start using them on new projects
• Lead by example, contributing to code reviews, documentation and take on complex bug fixes, especially on high-risk problems
• Partner across engineering teams to solve company-wide programmes
• Mentor and level up the skills of your teammates by sharing your expertise through knowledge sharing sessions
• Participate in Agile software development including daily stand-ups, sprint planning, team retrospectives, show and tell demo sessions
• Identify blockers, success metrics ensuring awareness and expectations

Your background:

• At least 10 years of experience in DevOps tooling and CI/CD pipelines
• At least 5 years of experience in Software Development with one or more prominent languages such as Kotlin, Java, Python or similar.
• Experience creating and implementing well-tested, scalable and performant distributed systems
• Knowledge to evaluate trade-offs between correctness, robustness, performance, space and time
• Practice in mentoring other engineers and influencing decision-makers throughout the organisation
• Consider the customer impact when making technical decisions