What are the responsibilities and job description for the Azure DevOps / React and Node Development position at Motion Recruitment?
We are seeking a Technical Lead to join the Platform Group’s Toolchain Team within a globally recognized retail technology organization. This team builds and maintains the platform that stitches together all micro front-end services and provides development tools for engineers across the company.
This is a critical backfill position, replacing the current Team Lead who is departing in early January. The role is urgent to fill by month-end. The Toolchain team currently has 1 FTE and 1 TL, with growth expected. You’ll collaborate closely with engineering teams, vendors, and leadership to drive technical vision and maintain seamless platform operations
Required Skills & Experience
Tech Breakdown
This is a critical backfill position, replacing the current Team Lead who is departing in early January. The role is urgent to fill by month-end. The Toolchain team currently has 1 FTE and 1 TL, with growth expected. You’ll collaborate closely with engineering teams, vendors, and leadership to drive technical vision and maintain seamless platform operations
Required Skills & Experience
- Lead a small team of platform engineers focused on building and maintaining the toolchain infrastructure.
- Serve as a bridge between multiple engineering groups to ensure efficient collaboration and platform consistency.
- Manage and improve CI/CD systems (Jenkins, Azure, Gradle, Node).
- Configure and support integrations with Akamai, Pivotal, and Azure environments.
- Oversee gateway and micro front-end stitching using NGINX, App Gateway, and Gradle.
- Provide automation and deployment support across multiple teams and environments.
- Represent the Toolchain team in cross-functional meetings, resolving technical dependencies and process bottlenecks.
- Contribute to the ongoing modernization of systems within a Canary deployment environment.
- 5 years of experience in DevOps, platform engineering, or infrastructure automation
- Proven experience with Jenkins, Shell scripting, and Node.js
- Hands-on with Gradle, Azure, and Akamai configuration
- Strong leadership capabilities – able to guide technical direction and mentor engineers
- Excellent communication skills and ability to collaborate across multiple technical teams
- Experience interfacing with vendors and understanding technical integration requirements
- Ability to balance priorities between platform stability and cross-team needs
Tech Breakdown
- CI/CD Pipeline Management: 25%
- Cloud Platform Integration (Azure, Pivotal): 20%
- Team Leadership & Cross-Team Communication: 20%
- Automation & Scripting (Shell, PowerShell, Node): 15%
- Micro Front-End Platform Development: 10%
- Vendor Coordination (Akamai, Equinix): 10%
- Lead and mentor platform engineers – 25%
- Manage and optimize CI/CD pipelines – 20%
- Collaborate across engineering teams – 20%
- Configure and maintain Azure, NGINX, and Akamai integrations – 15%
- Develop and maintain automation scripts – 10%
- Troubleshoot build and deployment issues – 5%
- Participate in planning and process improvements – 5%