Location: Remote
Position Type: Permanent
Key Responsibilities:
As the Lead DevOps Engineer, your primary responsibilities will be:
- Work alongside the Principle DevOps Engineer design, secure & deliver Cloud services across multiple environments and geographies, primarily on AWS followed by Azure & GCP.
- Be the driving technical force behind the delivery & operation of Cloud services to support the functions/capabilties of the business.
- The delivery of a Cloud agnostic ecosystem of tooling and operational processes based on DevOps, CICD & FinOps best practices, to support business capabilities/services.
- Support the Lead DevSecOps Engineer & team as they build the Landing Zone(s) that you will build capabilities/services on top of.
You will be collaborating closely with cross-functional teams & personnel, where design inputs & requirements are expected to be fluid & changeable.
In addition to technical leadership skills, you will be expected to:
- Lead team of DevOps Engineer(s) (including recruitment).
- Mentor junior members of the wider team & organisation as/when required.
- Deputise for the Principle DevOps Engineer as/when required.
Position Overview:
- Cloud Services: Build and secure applications/services in support of the business functions of Centric, primarily based around Kubernetes hosted microservices.
- Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): Ensure secure & effective testing and deployment of services using CI/CD best practices to enable efficient, secure software & infrastructure delivery.
- Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Deliver services using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) code and templates to test, provision, configure, and manage infrastructure components using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar.
- Automation: Be the drivering force for the automation of infrastructure provisioning and orchestration to streamline deployment processes, ensuring consistency and reliability across multiple environments & regions. This includes consistency of developer UX between pipelines & desktop.
- Security: Working closely with the Security Architect & Principle DevOps Engineer, you will ensure security of the services deployed.
- Documentation: Ensure effective documentation to ensure a clean handover of Cloud environments to Ops & SRE teams.
- Infrastructure Maintenance: Ensure the effective monitoring of infrastructure components to ensure optimal performance, scalability, and reliability. This will include self-healing capabilities.
- Support for Developers and QA: Collaborate with development and QA teams to provide guidance and support in building automated testing and deployment pipelines.
- Infrastructure Optimization: Identify opportunities for infrastructure optimization, cost reduction, and performance improvement.
Qualifications:
- Demonstrable experience of lead Engineering or technical leadership role(s).
- Demonstrable experience of DevOps practices and the promotion thereof.
- Strong understanding of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) principles and practices.
- Strong understanding of cloud computing platforms (primarily AWS, but Azure &/or Google Cloud is beneficial) and on-premises environments.
- Proficiency in IaC tools and scripting languages (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, Python, etc.).
- Experience with containerization and orchestration tools (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes).
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Ability to work effectively in cross-functional teams.
Key Technical Skills:
- Terraform
- GitHub & GitHub Actions
- AWS Organisations
- AWS Control Tower (including Account Factory for Terraform - AFT)
- Python (including curating Python packages)
Top Skills
What We Do
Centric Software® is the innovator behind the #1 Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) platform, Centric PLM™, that is blazing the trail for brands, manufacturers and retailers across all segments of the consumer goods industry. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, Centric Software has shattered the mold to create state-of-the-art digital solutions to satisfy the needs of every player in the market, large and small, and supports their mission to develop high-quality, sustainable products that are on time and on trend.
- Centric PLM delivers enterprise-class merchandise planning, product development, sourcing, quality and product portfolio optimization innovations specifically for fast-moving consumer industries. Centric PLM streamlines the product development process from concept to retail.
- Centric Planning provides best-in-class data and visually driven financial, merchandise and assortment planning as well as store and vendor forecasting to maximize margins and for seamless and fast, pre and in-season execution.
- Centric Visual Boards improves collaboration and decision-making of merchandising and buying teams through intuitive digital boards, driving innovation and decreasing time to market.
All Centric solutions are market-driven, ensuring they meet the needs of customers. These innovations include the first ever PLM mobile apps, 3D CAD connectors, sustainability integrations, and more. Centric Software has the highest user adoption rates in the industry and proudly maintains a 99% customer retention rate due to its seamless implementation methodology which ensures that 100% of its customers go live. Centric Software is proud to provide the best solution, backed by the best team to service the best customers.
Centric Software is a subsidiary of Dassault Systèmes (Euronext Paris: #13065, DSY.PA). For more information, please visit www.centricsoftware.com.
