Tech Stack
AnsibleAWSBootstrapCloudDockerGradleJavaKubernetesMaven.NETPythonRustScala
About the role
- Lead CI/CD transformation: guide teams through build, deployment, and production release pipeline adoption.
- Pipeline evangelism: promote trunk-based development, high test coverage, and quality gates across teams.
- Hands-on enablement: provide direct support to engineering teams to automate manual tests and adopt modern DevOps practices.
- Test automation strategy: collaborate with QA and development to reduce manual testing through robust automation frameworks.
- Application modernisation: identify opportunities to containerise legacy applications and upgrade outdated language versions.
- Metrics & maturity assessment: drive adoption of DORA metrics and perform application maturity assessments to prioritise onboarding.
- Technical mentorship: coach junior engineers and partner with senior SMEs to build scalable DevOps capability.
- Cross-functional collaboration: work with stakeholders across geographies to build a repeatable playbook for CI/CD adoption.
- Onboard engineering teams across London, Whippany (New York), Pune, and Prague to a standardised GitLab-based pipeline to enable fast production delivery.
Requirements
- Proven experience leading DevOps transformations in large-scale enterprise environments.
- Deep expertise in CI/CD lifecycle management, preferably with GitLab.
- Strong background in test automation and reducing manual testing effort.
- Hands-on experience with containerisation (Docker, Kubernetes) and cloud/on-prem hybrid deployments.
- Familiarity with languages: Java, .NET, Python, Scala, C++.
- Familiarity with build tools: Maven, Gradle, MS Build.
- Familiarity with DevOps tools: GitLab, Ansible, Conda, Poetry.
- Monitoring and logging experience: Elastic, ELK.
- Comfortable navigating Rust-based pipeline components and GitLab runners.
- Experience deploying to AWS, internal platforms (SIK, BCP 2.0), bare metal, and virtual platforms (EBP).
- Ability to assess application maturity and bootstrap DevOps capabilities.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Experience working in geographically distributed teams (desirable).
- Exposure to AI-driven test automation or DevOps tooling (desirable).
- Familiarity with enterprise governance and compliance in CI/CD (desirable).
- English required; Czech an advantage.