Senior Team Lead, DevOps

In brief

**Overview** This is a developing management role for a Senior Team Lead, DevOps at NTT DATA. The role involves collaborating with business stakeholders to ensure available, scalable, and reliable business experiences within the DevOps area. It focuses on driving innovation, expediting value to the business, and managing all design, build, release, and support activities for the relevant portfolio. The Senior Team Lead is responsible for ensuring their team adheres to solid DevOps principles and practices while fostering collaboration and innovation aimed at operational excellence. **What you will do** * Manages operations for the DevOps Team and coordinates the efforts of product design and development with the more business-oriented operations and production to achieve successful new product launches. * Works closely with a variety of internal stakeholders to ensure the execution of the DevOps strategy. * Designs, develops and implements operational capabilities by overseeing the design, development, and implementation of processes, capabilities, tools and processes. * Supports with overseeing the product/portfolio lifecycle and ensures the development and operation of an agile software development process all the way through to production. * Ensures the collaborative development and continuous integration and the early discovery and exposure of integration risks, reduced costs and shortened testing cycles. * Tests and deploys processes to ensure the creation of processes that are iterative, frequent, repeatable and reliable. * Manages the development of a delivery pipeline that allows for continuous automated deployment and testing ensuring the release of new enhancements and bug fixes, enabling the practice of continuous delivery. * Monitors and validates operational quality and ensures early monitoring of the functional and non-functional characteristics by enabling automated testing. * Manages the outcomes of the tickets opened to ensure the uptime and quality of the production system is always maintained. * Manages individuals and groups. Allocates responsibilities and/or packages of work, including supervisory responsibilities. * Coordinates and manages planning of the system and/or acceptance tests, including software security testing, within a development or integration project or program. * Drafts and maintains procedures and documentation for support and manages enhancements. * Ensures that all requests for support are dealt with according to set standards and procedures. **Requirements (from the original advert)** * Solid technical leadership and oversight of implementation and deployment planning, system integration, ongoing data validation processes, quality assurance, delivery, operations, and sustainability of technical solutions. * Solid expert technical understanding of the intersection of development and operations DevOps, monitoring and management tools, and deployment processes and tools. * Ability in people management, risk management, change management, and project management. * Excellent judgment, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills. * Solid experience working with quality management approaches, techniques, and principles. * Solid understanding of software development lifecycle best practices. * Solid technical understanding of development and platform engineering. * Customer centricity and strong collaboration capabilities with excellent planning skills. * Solid stakeholder and relationship management. * Excellent communication skills coupled with exceptional leadership skills. * Demonstrate an excellent and practical understanding of accepted DevOps principles. * Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in Information Technology or related field. * Relevant DevOps certification preferred. * Agile related certification preferred. * Understanding and certification of cloud platforms and services for example, AWS, Azure, GCP. * Knowledge and certification of scripting and programming languages for example, Bash, Python, Ruby. * Solid demonstrated Software Development and Support experience. * Experience in SOAR playbook development. * SOC experience relating to automation of Incidents and Automation of day to Security operations. * DevSecOps integrates security into an existing DevOps pipeline to balance speed and security, while SecDevOps places security first. * Solid demonstrated experience deploying software solutions to clients in an outsourced or similar IT environment. * Solid demonstrated experience working in a multi-team environment across multiple geographies. * Programming/development experience including Agile processes such as SCRUM, KANBAN. * Solid demonstrated years of team management experience. * Scrum Master experience. **Who should apply** Candidates for this role should possess strong technical leadership in DevOps, encompassing a solid understanding of software development, operations, and security integration (DevSecOps/SecDevOps). They should have demonstrated experience in team management, project management, risk management, and change management. An ideal candidate will have excellent judgment, analytical thinking, and problem-solving skills, coupled with a solid understanding of software development lifecycle best practices, quality management, and platform engineering. Academic qualifications should include a Bachelor’s degree in IT or a related field, with preferred certifications in DevOps, Agile, cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP), and scripting languages (Bash, Python, Ruby). The role requires significant experience in software development and support, particularly in complex environments such as client-facing, multi-geographic, and outsourced IT settings, as well as hands-on experience with Agile methodologies (SCRUM, KANBAN), SOAR playbook development, and SOC automation. **Deadline** Not specified **Reference** Original posting: https://www.myjobmag.co.za/job/senior-team-lead-devops-ntt-global-networks Source: myjobmag

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• Python
• AWS
• Azure
• Google Cloud
• Project management
• Agile / Scrum

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