2 months ago
Remote, United Kingdom or Birmingham, United KingdomStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead teams in designing, automating, building, managing, and optimizing modern digital service platforms.
- Design, test, monitor, operate, enhance, and improve platform services in production environments.
- Use continuous delivery, automation, configuration management, and platform orchestration techniques to release operationally ready software.
- Build and support digital service platforms, including architecture, design, estimation, planning, and MVP iteration.
- Apply Site Reliability Engineering tools, techniques, and processes for monitoring, modernization, reliability improvement, and cost optimization.
- Use AWS SaaS and PaaS offerings to solve business problems.
- Provide technical leadership, interact with customers, communicate technical designs, and make transparent technical decisions.
- Mentor colleagues, share knowledge through communities of practice, and foster a DevOps culture.
- Manage, coach, and develop a small number of staff, including employee performance and career development.
Requirements
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to explain technical designs to technical and non-technical audiences.
- Proven experience leading teams and supporting a DevOps culture across complex delivery or support projects.
- SC Clearance is required.
- Significant expertise designing, building, testing, automating, monitoring, operating, enhancing, or improving modern digital service platforms in production.
- Experience with continuous delivery, automation, and platform orchestration using multiple configuration management tools.
- Demonstrable experience building or supporting modern digital service platforms, including architecture, design, estimation, planning, and MVP iteration using a modern agile approach.
- Experience championing Site Reliability Engineering tooling, techniques, and processes.
- Experience using AWS SaaS or PaaS offerings to solve business problems.
- AWS public cloud certification is desirable.
- Certification in a specialization such as Kubernetes CKAD is desirable.
Benefits
- People-first culture with support for learning, development, and career growth.
- Opportunities to share knowledge internally and across the wider industry.
- Diversity, equity, inclusion, and recruitment accommodations are supported.
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About Kainos
Kainos is a Belfast-headquartered, publicly listed IT services company that designs and delivers digital services and Workday solutions for public, healthcare and commercial clients. Its business includes agile software engineering, cloud and data platforms, systems integration, and a Workday implementation and testing practice (including the Smart automated testing product). Founded in 1986 and listed on the London Stock Exchange, Kainos operates across the UK, Europe and North America.