Azure DevOps Lead
3 month contract with a view to extend
INSIDE IR35
Immediate start
Nottingham- 5 days onsite per week
I am currently recruiting on behalf of a leading Retailer in Nottingham for an Azure DevOps Lead to join an IT Data & Analytics Team.
The role will be predominantly responsible for the delivery of a greenfield analytical environment hosted on Microsoft Azure.
The role holder must have a deep understanding of cloud technologies, particularly Microsoft’s solutions in this space. Familiar working with delivery pipelines using tools like Azure DevOps for infrastructure as a code in cloud-based deployments.
The successful candidate will be a hands on Team Leader of the DevOps Team within the IT Data & Analytics Team. The role will be predominantly responsible for the delivery of a cloud (MS Azure) technical platform. Managing a small team made up of on shore, off shore and 3rd party cloud and DevOps engineers.
DevOps
- Establish DevOps function and Ways of Working
- Implement / evolve deployment strategy
- Evolve formal processes, ensuring that the team is using industry-accepted best practices.
- Oversee the day to day running of a DevOps team
- Team Management
- Be ‘Front of House’ for the team
- Coach and Mentor team
- Coordinating resources
- Task allocation
- Project and platform tasks
- Be the quality gate for software releases
- Standards and coding reviews
Skills
- Broad technical knowledge.
- Good understanding of data platform architectures
- ADO administration and setup
- Deployment pipelines and infrastructure
- Previous development experience essential (multiple languages)
- Minimum 3 years Azure experience- Azure DevOps, Databricks, Azure build pipelines..
- Collaborative working with internal and external teams
- Excellent communicator both written and verbally
- Hands-on troubleshooting experience (Performance, Scalability, Reliability)
The organisation is located in Nottingham, you’d be required to be onsite 5 days per week
This is a 3 month contract initially and likely to be extended 12 months +
The role falls inside IR35 so you’d need to work via an umbrella company
Please apply now to be considered!
