Director DevOps

Overview:

As the Director of Devops Engineering, your primary responsibility is to the people you lead and support: ensuring that they are growing as engineers, doing valuable work, and finding satisfaction in their career at Healthedge. As a lead for DevOps, technical leadership and a solid background in software development is a must, so that you’re able to challenge and grow your team members. You will have the opportunity to influence the culture, facilitate technical delivery, and work with your team on direction and execution. The Director will design containerization, and implementation/migration of large & complex applications on Public Cloud. He will play a critical role in taking org towards Predictive pipelines & SRE based model.

What you’ll do

As a senior technology leader, ensure industry best practice is being adopted in terms of Infrastructure Architecture; Continuous Delivery and Integration; Deployment; Security; 3rd-level Support and Test automation.

Take ownership of all infrastructure and development operations for the team and ensure that all work meets user and commercial objectives, is delivered on time, to budget and to the quality standards agreed.

Create roadmap, identify delivery milestones, capacity and cost required to achieve the same.

Execute the agreed upon technology strategy based on OKR

Strategizing, designing and implementing highly efficient solution on Public Cloud (Amazon Web Services, Azure or GCP) for security, resilience, performant, networking, availability, Blue-green deployments in context of business application.

Responsible for defining the System Development Life Cycle methodology and associated cross-functional tools to ensure adoption and continuous improvement.

Understand the global state of the art in commercial cloud and open-source operations

Prioritize our efforts to raise the bar on complex software-defined infrastructure

Ensure processes and training are in place for continuous improvement in our services

Help develop and evangelize great engineering and organizational practices

Team and Stakeholder Management

Lead and develop teams of engineers spanning across time zones

Advocate modern, agile software development practices

Hiring, coaching, mentoring, feedback and hands-on career development

Be an active part of the leadership team and collaborate with other leaders in the organization

Coordinate with management and external stakeholders or customers

Grow a healthy, collaborative engineering culture in line with the company values

Set and manage expectations with other engineering and operational teams

Global travel up to 5% of time for internal and external events

Who you are

University degree in Computer Science or related software engineering field

Advanced level Ansible, Terraform & Python skills

Experience running production operations as SAAS or IT with critical uptime requirements

Experience running production operations for external customers and partners

Familiarity with Devops principles and practices

Leadership ability and ability to set and maintain a high standard of excellence in operations

You love developing and growing people and can demonstrate a track record of doing it

You are knowledgeable and passionate about software development

You have clarity on the drivers of quality in software engineering and an ability to ensure that

You are organized and want your team to deliver timely software releases

You have solid experience working in an agile development environment

You have a thorough understanding of modern infrastructure, including Kubernetes or OpenStack

You have good knowledge of AWS, Azure cloud computing concepts & technologies

You have practical knowledge of Linux and networking

You have hands-on experience with software automation

You are fluent and comfortable in cloud terminology