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. THE JOB
In the role of Principal CI/CD Platform Architect Developer Experience, you will be responsible for architecting and leading technical direction and implementation of the software pipeline. This platform is essential to business, providing the tooling, practices, and expertise that our development engineering teams leverage to deliver, observe, and maintain the product suite.You will be responsible for ensuring that development teams have a low friction, highly secure, highly available, cost-effective and consistent toolchain to deliver software. This includes effective tools to observe and operate that software in the framework of large enterprise compliance and governance needs. You will use your technical expertise and experience to drive design and automation of processes that support the continuous delivery of software.You will work closely with the Director Developer Experience, software development leadership, technical operations leadership, architecture, PMO and vendors from around the globe to design and deliver these services.WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING Work with the Director Developer Experience and software Engineering leaders to assess the needs of Software Engineering against current offerings Participate in and occasionally lead the daily, weekly, sprint cycle team ceremonies and ensure efficient activities of the team aligned to goals Provide mentoring to team members Assess and size effort associated with work backlog and participate in grooming Advise and inform a program of work to mature the developer experience Review and rationalise existing software pipeline tools, services, processes and best practises that form the foundations of software delivery Define technical direction to establish a unified paved road of software pipelines and workload targets. This consists of tools, best practices, and governance for software delivery from commit, through build, test hardening, packaging, and delivery to production Partner with delivery groups to define roadmaps for CI/CD and curate their development Participate in regular planning cycles to align business priorities to programs of work within your organization Inform recommendations, including resourcing, of strategic projects to mature and improve the software delivery pipeline Lead proofs of concepts, engineering, and implementation projects Lead proofs of concepts, engineering, and implementation projects Deliver Managed Services that cover the following domains: oLog Collection and Analysis oOperational Metrics oDistributed Tracing oCode and Artifact Repositories oBuild, Test, and Deployment Automation oSecrets Management oConfiguration Repository and Management oExecution Bus oContainer Build Standards and Automation oContinuous Delivery WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW (or TECHNICAL SKILLS/COMPETENCIES) Background in both Systems and Software Engineering Experience delivering a comprehensive software pipeline for an organization with many teams delivering across widely varied technology stacks Competent developing software in 1 or more of Python, Golang, Ruby, C (implement defensive programming, error handling, testing frameworks) You should have experience in designing, automating, maintaining and optimising observability platforms (logging, metric and tracing) Experience working in a highly complex and scaled global technology organization Ability to translate complex technical challenges into tangible solutions and initiatives within an agile framework You will have experience in designing, automating and optimising easy to integrate with delivery toolchains at enterprise scale Hands on experience successfully designing and implementing scalable, robust, easy to use secure API s Abreast of industry standards and trends related to software pipelines and observability Previous experience of public clouds (AWS and Terraform) Knowledge and experience of containers and Kubernetes cluster Hands on experience delivering complex software in an enterprise environment Experience with automation tools (Chef, Ansible) Experience working in a remote team across multiple regions and time zones Incident managementYOU (BEHAVIOURAL SKILLS/COMPETENCIES) Autonomous and proactive. Passionate about the value of a well-defined and easy to integrate with software delivery toolchain Passionate about providing greater transparency to health and status of systems Keenly empathetic to the day to day experience of software development teams A transparent communicator Deeply concerned with the security and compliance implications of your services and solutions Capable of delivering and accepting empathetic, constructive criticism with reports, peers, leadership and stakeholdersConscious of the developers need for speed of delivery and the enterprise need for governance and cost managementVacancy expired!