DevOps Lead

Job Title: Senior DevOps EngineerPE Positions: 12Department: Technology (Engineering and Architecture, and Innovation)Location: London/ManchesterReports To: Lead DevOps EngineerDirect Reports: n/aBackground: This is an exciting time to join Dentsu as we focus on becoming a 100% digital economy business through content, media and commerce. We are well placed to build capability, scale and sustainablegrowth as a high performance business. Our strategy is driven by our unique culture with one vision (to innovate the way brands are built), one set of values and a unique operating model whichdrives collaboration, client focus and attention.Within the Engineering and Architecture, and Innovation function at Dentsu, we are developing key initiative that will drive technology strategy, rationalisation and impact;The Dentsu Tech Platform Engineering initiative will be responsible for providing platform services, frameworks, blueprints and tools that enable all Dentsu development teams and beyond withthe essential capabilities to rapidly deliver robust, scalable and secure applications for use by our operational teams, and our clients.Role Overview: As a Senior DevOps Engineer you will be a subject matter expert in DevOps practices and tooling. You will have a background in infrastructure engineering and a track record of designing anddelivering large-scale, highly available systems. You will be a strong advocate for the team and share assets, ideas, designs, approaches and successes with other product delivery teams. You willbe able to balance your engineering skills with strategy and design leadership.We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificialintelligence, and containerisation. We need our leaders to be versatile, fearless, free thinking, innovative, disruptive, enthusiastic in taking on new problems and inspirational to their reports and peersalike.Responsibilities:Collaborate closely with leads to deliver secure, reliable, robust and scalable solutions.Identify and implement DevOps engineering best practices in conjunction with your peers, both within Platform Engineering and Technology as a wholeEnsure the use of continuous delivery pipelines and tools to fully automate deployment, testing, delivery, and management of development, QA and production systems on a variety of cloudplatformsTroubleshoot and take ownership of issues in development, test and production environments. Including performance optimization and continuous tuningContinuous learning and evaluation of the latest approaches, tools, and technologies.Continually collaborate, inspire and think outside of the box to conceive of and build solutions to place Dentsu ahead of the curve and be a leading contributor to DevOps innovation within theindustry.Key Skills andExperience: Must be from a UNIX / Linux sys-admin backgroundExpert knowledge in container orchestration technologies (emphasis on Kubernetes)Expert knowledge of continuous integration and automated testingExperience in one or more popular CI platforms (e.g. Jenkins, Bamboo, Travis, Brigade)Experience with Helm package managerStrong experience in at least one major cloud platformknowledge of Ansible and TerraformStrong TCP/IP skillsGood understanding of PKIExpert scripting skills (bash/sh/ksh)

Experience In Another Language (e.g. Golang, Javascript, Python, Perl)

CandidateProfile: A thought leader, not afraid to challenge and disrupt pre-conceived ideas and approaches.A passionate advocate of automated testing and continuous deploymentAbility to quickly learn and adapt to emerging techniques, frameworks, and platformsAble to switch easily between strategy/leadership/management and hands-on engineering responsibilitiesExcellent communication, stakeholder management and collaboration skills

Location:

DGS India - Mumbai - Thane Ashar IT Park

Brand:

Dentsu

Time Type:

Full time

Contract Type:

Permanent#DGS