Job Description
We're looking for a Lead DevOps Engineer (DevEx Engineering Manager) to join our Which? Technology team on a permanent, full-time basis.
What you'll do
As a leader in the Engineering department you will be working with other Engineering Managers and Principal Engineers to empower the engineering teams that enable Which? to deliver its mission to reduce consumer harm by making life simpler, fairer and safer.
Our Developer Experience team is responsible for building the tools and services that Which? engineers use every day. This includes the infrastructure, security and reliability tooling we use to operate secure, fast fault tolerant systems.
Along with the other Engineering Managers you'll help recruit and develop a diverse and talented team of engineers.
As part of the broader engineering leadership team you will contribute to our best practices and standards and be a champion for the innovative use of technology. You'll also contribute to the wider technology strategy and help us deliver as a department.
What's important to us
You can't know everything but we're looking for deep experience in a range of these areas
What we'll offer you
We believe in getting the best out of people, and our refurbished modern working environment is relaxed and friendly. There are excellent benefits including 28 days annual leave, private healthcare, an excellent pension scheme and the usuals like flexible working, Cycle to Work, Season Ticket Loan and Childcare Vouchers etc. We even have a private section of Regent's Park which is handy for hot summers and team building events!
It's a great time to join as we have just launched our new values! Click here to find out what we feel reflects what we do and how we work.
To find out more about this role click on the link to view the job description.
At Which? we value diversity and we're committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone is able to be themselves and to reach their full potential. We want to receive applications from all regardless of age, gender identity, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief, race or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, transgender status, social economic background etc. We believe that a diverse workforce helps us to understand and create a positive impact for consumers. We want to ensure that everybody can apply and be part of our recruitment processes, and therefore when required we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates.
We're committed to making sure our application process is accessible to everyone who would like to apply for any of our vacancies! Please reach out to if you need us to provide an alternative application method to support your accessibility needs.
What you'll do
As a leader in the Engineering department you will be working with other Engineering Managers and Principal Engineers to empower the engineering teams that enable Which? to deliver its mission to reduce consumer harm by making life simpler, fairer and safer.
Our Developer Experience team is responsible for building the tools and services that Which? engineers use every day. This includes the infrastructure, security and reliability tooling we use to operate secure, fast fault tolerant systems.
Along with the other Engineering Managers you'll help recruit and develop a diverse and talented team of engineers.
As part of the broader engineering leadership team you will contribute to our best practices and standards and be a champion for the innovative use of technology. You'll also contribute to the wider technology strategy and help us deliver as a department.
What's important to us
- Experience building tools and infrastructure that is used daily by other engineers
- Empathy and a willingness to invest in others
- Transparency and collaboration
- Pragmatism and a bias for action
- A willingness to learn and teach others
- A passion to help us in our mission
- Diversity and inclusion
You can't know everything but we're looking for deep experience in a range of these areas
- A wide range of AWS infrastructure and services from Lambda to Cloudfront
- Terraform or Cloudformation
- CI/CD best practice and tooling e.g. CircleCI, Travis CI, Jenkins
- 12 factor app methodology
- Observability tools e.g. NewRelic, AirBrake, Sentry
- Operating Node or Java applications
- Experience understanding the needs to engineers and building tools to meet those needs
- Working as part of a broader technology leadership team
- Working with, and debugging, Microservice based architectures
- Working with message or event based systems
- Contributing towards a Tech Strategy particularly on Cloud
- Working with modern design patterns to build cloud native solutions
- Experience working directly with senior stakeholders
- Interviewing and hiring
- Line management or mentoring
- Linux Sysadmin experience
- Working to agile development practices like Scrum or Kanban
What we'll offer you
We believe in getting the best out of people, and our refurbished modern working environment is relaxed and friendly. There are excellent benefits including 28 days annual leave, private healthcare, an excellent pension scheme and the usuals like flexible working, Cycle to Work, Season Ticket Loan and Childcare Vouchers etc. We even have a private section of Regent's Park which is handy for hot summers and team building events!
It's a great time to join as we have just launched our new values! Click here to find out what we feel reflects what we do and how we work.
To find out more about this role click on the link to view the job description.
At Which? we value diversity and we're committed to creating an inclusive culture where everyone is able to be themselves and to reach their full potential. We want to receive applications from all regardless of age, gender identity, disability, marriage or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity, religion or belief, race or ethnic origin, sex, sexual orientation, transgender status, social economic background etc. We believe that a diverse workforce helps us to understand and create a positive impact for consumers. We want to ensure that everybody can apply and be part of our recruitment processes, and therefore when required we make reasonable adjustments to accommodate our candidates.
We're committed to making sure our application process is accessible to everyone who would like to apply for any of our vacancies! Please reach out to if you need us to provide an alternative application method to support your accessibility needs.
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