DevOps Team Lead

We're seeking a Team Lead to help guide our Cloud Engineering and DevOps team in EMEA. You would come from either a DevOps or Cloud Architect background with team lead experience. With a desire to stay hands on.

As we have geo located teams, you will need to work well with your counterparts in the AU region.

Who you are:

We're seeking a Team Lead to help guide our Cloud Engineering and DevOps team in EMEA. You would come from either a DevOps or Cloud Architect background with team lead experience.

As we have geo located teams, you will need to work well with your counterparts in the AU region.

For this role, we ask that you can demonstrate:

• Strong leadership qualities that enable you to work well with other teams  and help establish your own highly engaged and performant team
• Strong sense of ownership and “the buck stops with us” mentality.
• Excellent knowledge around infrastructure, infrastructure-as-code and current tooling to support the management and orchestration of AWS and Cloud Architecture
• Excellent knowledge of Cloud services including CDN’s, Lambda/Serverless, EC2, ECS, IAM, Terraform/Cloudformation/CDK
• Strong understanding of what Observability means
• That you have worked with product teams before, and understand CI/CD processes to help create robust internal methodologies
• Strong understanding of DevOps as a culture and what site reliability is and how it can improve end users experience while empowering the team

What you would do:

• You would lead our EMEA team consisting of DevOps Engineers, looking after their individual growth
• You will work with the other Team Leads globally to ensure we have a consistent approach to how we support our platforms in AWS and ensure they are highly available, scalable and secure
• You will still be hands on, being able to roll up your sleeves as needed with the team and assist in architectural design of our platforms

Location: London but will consider Edinburgh (with ability to access the office 1-2 times per week)

Note: You will be required to complete a police check.

We are unable to sponsor thus full working rights are required.

Who we are:

Squiz helps organisations improve the services they offer online and, in turn, the lives of the people that matter to them; building portals for students, websites for citizens, intranets for employees, and much more.

Headquartered in Australia, with 340 staff members scattered across our international offices in the USA, United Kingdom, Poland and New Zealand. 

We’re looking for people like you, who want to be a part of this journey of reinvention as we build an amazing Global SaaS product business, with the experience and enthusiasm to use amazing technology in new and creative ways.

Why work for Squiz?

You’ll work with some of the most intelligent and down to earth people you’ll ever meet: we are made up of a diverse range of passionate people who love challenging the status quo. Every day is different, but what is constant is we enjoy what we do.

Squiz has a flexible working policy: We encourage our teams to embrace flexibility in how their team members manage where and how they work. We want you to be able to work in a way that drives productivity, efficiency and outcomes; along with connection and collaboration.

Come as you are: We celebrate diversity and unite on the elements of our company DNA, starting every customer conversation with “why?” to understand their needs, working hard to find a way to overcome every challenge, and fighting for better outcomes with the work we do; all while checking our egos at door, not taking ourselves too seriously and having fun along the way

We are a 2024 Circle Back Initiative Employer - we commit to respond to every applicant

Recruitment Agencies: We politely ask that you avoid making any approaches or sending any unsolicited resumes to our Recruitment Team or Hiring Leaders across our business. Squiz is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.