DevOps Team Lead

Our client is hiring a DevOps Team Lead on a direct full time basis.

Job ID: 83523

Work Location: Naples, FL - on site position - candidates must relocate if not local (relocation assistance available)

Summary:

Summary:

We are looking for a talented and passionate Platform Engineering Team Lead who wants to make an impact in the healthcare space. With over 40 years of experience in the medical device industry, Client is dedicated to providing safe and reproducible solutions for health care professionals. We are seeking a team lead who will help us build and enhance our software platform as we continue to help surgeons treat their patients.

As a Platform Engineering Team Lead you will lead a team of Platform Engineers with DevOps principles in providing infrastructure, services, and tools to support several custom software development teams. This role includes both people leadership responsibilities and hands-on technical work.

Ideal candidates have the following experience and skills:

• People leadership experience or demonstrated technical leadership by mentoring and coaching engineers.
• Deep AWS experience utilizing a variety of their service offerings.
• Software Engineering experience
• Container virtualization and orchestration utilizing Kubernetes
• Experience utilizing Infrastructure as Code solutions such as Amazon CDK
• Experience with automation and CI tools such as GitHub Actions
• Experience with performance monitoring and logging solutions
• Desire to learn new technologies and solve complex problems

This will be a hybrid role at our global headquarters and play a key leadership role in the Marketing Software Engineering group.

Main Objective: Leads a team of platform engineers by coaching and mentoring team members from a technical and career perspective. Responsible for the development, maintenance and optimization of the software development environment and infrastructure, build, integration and software deployment process.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

1. Manages and leads a team of platform engineers. Works with the Software Development Director to ensure that team members are assigned to projects and work is completed.
2. Aligns with the software development leadership team on technical and process standards/patterns. Promotes standards and patterns amongst direct reports.
3. Mentors team members on technical patterns, best practices, and coding standards.
4. Coaches team members and guides them in roles that align with their skills and passion.
5. Interviews, hires and trains new platform engineer team members.
6. Provides performance reviews, appraises performance and resolves conflict with team members.
7. Provides leadership example to team members and provides feedback, training plans, and motivation to drive overall performance improvement in service delivery.
8. Leads the maintenance of infrastructure systems and tools, providing support for development teams.
9. Leads the maintenance and administration of shared tooling including off the shelf software, SaaS products, and custom tools.
10. Researches and assesses new technologies for use within infrastructure and automation processes. Adds these technologies to the roadmap as needed.
11. Guides and develops automation systems for continuous integration & deployment.
12. Actively monitors applications for abnormalities. Proposes and executes areas for improvement in regard to vulnerabilities, availability, and speed of the applications.
13. Works with development teams as needed to provide operational and infrastructure guidance for products to ensure business goals are met.
14. Occasional travel for training, meetings or trade shows may be required.

Education and Experience:

• High school diploma or equivalent required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field strongly preferred.
• 7 years of professional experience. 1 years of experience in a leadership position preferred.

Knowledge and Skill Requirements/Specialized Courses and/or Training:

• Ability to manage a software development / infrastructure team – defining and assessing success metrics.
• Demonstrate interpersonal and leadership skills required to interact with staff, colleagues, management, and internal/external customers.
• Minimum of 7 years of hands-on experience developing and managing robust, high-availability production systems required.
• 5 years of experience working alongside a software development team with knowledge of the entire software development lifecycle required.
• Advanced experience with logging, performance monitoring and performance tuning tools.
• Advanced experience with container virtualization and orchestration using technologies such as Kubernetes.
• Advanced experience with distributed version control systems such as Git.
• Experience managing relational database servers and assisting developers by giving suggestions for query tuning and database design. Experience with Microsoft SQL Server (MS SQL), MongoDB and PostgreSQL strongly preferred. Experience with NoSQL solutions is a plus. Knowledge of SQL required.
• Advanced experience with management of Linux servers in a production environment. Experience with Debian is a plus.
• Advanced experience in provisioning and managing cloud services using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as AWS CloudFormation, AWS CDK, or Terraform.
• Advanced experience with automation and continuous integration tools (e.g. GitHub Actions).
• Advanced experience using agile software development methodologies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Machine, Tools, and/or Equipment Skills:

Experience working with code editors, team collaboration software. Individual must feel comfortable using the command line. Experience with macOS is a plus.

Reasoning Ability:

Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

Mathematical Skills

Ability to comprehend and apply mathematical principles to the degree required to perform the job based upon job requirements.

Language and Communication Skills:

• Ability to comprehend and apply language skills to the degree required to perform the job based upon the job requirements listed above. Ability to verbally communicate ideas and issues effectively to other team members and management. Ability to write and record data and information as required by procedures.