Devops Team Lead
- Posted 18 August 2023
- LocationTimişoara
- Job type Permanent
- Discipline Product & Engineering
- ReferenceJ9852
Job description
Are you ready for the challenge?
What are we all about?
We're passionate about helping our customers stay one step ahead of the challenges facing their industry and business. That's why over 1 million users and over 10,000 organisations rely on Access software to help their organisation thrive.
Role-specific:
The role will be responsible for building and maintaining the tools for deployment, monitoring and operations for our ERP customers.
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience in Cloud/Devops Engineering, Cloud Transformation or similar role.
- You have experience with the following tooling:
- Scripting experience with Powershell, Python or similar scripting language.
- System monitoring tools such as New Relic, App Dynamics or Red Gate
- CI/CD tooling such as Azure Devops
- Grafana/Kibana or another log monitoring tool.
Infrastructure as code/Terraform.
- SQL performance tuning.
- Azure
- MyDesk by Citrix Systems.
- MS SQL Server
- Network/routing/firewalls.
- Curious and always wanting to learn new approaches and tools.
- Do not rest on laurels – you look to continuously improve the reliability of the systems you support. You love to standardise and take people out of the process.
- You believe in continuous delivery and the benefits it brings to stability.
- You are obsessive about reducing manual toll and try to automate as much as possible using tooling available to us in the best possible way.
- You are willing to proactively step in and do the right thing.
Day-to-day, you will:
- Monitor SQL server capacity, provision new servers well in advance. Ensure servers are load balanced.
- Implement tooling such as Redgate, App Dynamics/New relic or Grafana to monitor overall system performance and ensure early detection of issues.
- Build monitoring that alert on symptoms rather than outages.
- Design a process and pipeline to update all customers with minor changes in collaboration with product engineering and cloud engineering:
- Using Pipelines for DB updates with support from development teams.
- Investigate tooling and options for updating front-end on our MyDesk (by Citrix) platform in collaboration with cloud engineering.
- Investigate buy versus build options for monitoring and automation.
- Continuously looking for ways to improve the performance of the system and reduce manual toll for consultants and support. Automate repetitive tasks.
- Security focus and ensure we are constantly improving our security posture. Use ArmourCode to track our security score and look to continuously improve.
- Coordinate move to our new data center with our cloud engineering team.
- Key metrics you will be responsible for: Uptime (target 99.8%), Time to Restore Service and Latency/System Response times.
- Proactively scale the infrastructure with our business.
- Collaborate with Engineering, Consultants and Support to improve how we work and stream-line implementations.
- You will co-ordinate incidents and outages and complete blameless post-mortems on all incidents ensuring any preventative measures are put in place.
- The role will require you to be on call in case of outage or major incident outside of core working hours.
What does Access offer you?
- Healthy, friendly, and inclusive culture
- Work - life balance
- Hybrid/Remote working
- Flexible working hours
- Competitive salary package
- Great Holiday Package (starting from 25)
- Charity day – day off paid by the company for volunteering activities.
- Private Healthcare & Life Insurance
- 7 Card Sport Allowance
- Meal tickets
- Referral Bonus
- Christmas Bonus
- Big Break – all-inclusive holiday paid by the company.
- Other benefits
At Access we’re all about helping everyone Love Work, Love Life and Be you. Why? Because we believe people can only be their best when they can be themselves. So, if you are excited about this role, but your past experience doesn’t match perfectly, we’d still love to hear from you. You might just be who we are looking for.