DevOps Manager

Job Role: DevOps Manager

Location: Luton/Flexible

Job Sector: IT

Hours: 35 hours per week

As the DevOps Manager, you will contribute to our vision of being the favourite residential property manager, as recognised by others by:

• Managing a new DevOps team, focussing on supporting and continuously enhancing new exciting technology solutions
• Automating processes and workloads to dramatically improve our business
• Focussing on customers, drive new behaviours and skill into FirstPort's IT team

This role reports to the Head of Technology.

About You

You are experienced in introducing DevOps to an organisation, with engineering teams, both in and outsourced, and are currently working in a Senior IT role, ideally within an empowered and high paced organisation.

Being experienced in Agile software development, means you have a strong technical and technical leadership background, especially in a Best of Breed, Enterprise Application Integration environment

You have a deep understanding of cloud platforms and services; Salesforce and Microsoft Azure/Office 365 and thorough knowledge of modern API platforms (Mulesoft preferred), REST, SOAP, JSON, XML etc

Main Responsibilities

• Establish and manage a DevOps team focussed on Salesforce, Mulesoft, SharePoint and other technologies
• Manage the day to day priorities of the team, ensure high performance and availability of technologies for our stakeholders
• Manage a two tier delivery model for both high velocity and low velocity of change technologies
• Manage delivery using internal team and partners
• Manage the relationship of key technology partners, holding them to account to achieve the highest levels of service
• Identify and implement key technologies, such as BitBucket, Jenkins etc. that will allow us to implement automations key for a move to DevOps
• Motivate direct reports through the change to a DevOps approach

Our Values

Friendly - We look out for people's best interests, and show them we care by dealing with them in a warm and friendly manner.

Inventive - We're creative and resourceful. We strive to improve what we do and how we do it, so we can provide the best ideas and solutions to look after people, their homes and communities.

Respectful - We listen, consult and take on-board people's opinions and needs. We understand the importance of the home and community in people's lives, and act with respect at all times.

Skilled - We've the qualifications, experience and take great pride in our work to consistently deliver the highest standards and value for money. We're informed, and we're always building on that knowledge to constantly improve our quality of service.

Trustworthy - We're always professional, reliable, open and honest. People can depend on us to keep our promises and follow through on our commitments.