Tech Lead / DevOps

Department: Development Location: Pune, India

ParentPay Group is Europe's leading software product company and the UK's largest education technology business. We are on a mission to bring next-generation innovation to positively impact on the lives of millions of parents, teachers, and students every day in over 49 countries.

Our market leading products use cutting edge cloud-based technology to streamline school processes, including secure web and mobile apps that enable secure online payments for school items such as meals, trips, clubs and uniform, improve parental engagement, simplify meal management and - through our product SIMS - collect and manage a database of student information and core school operations.

ParentPay Group's new offices in Pune are a fantastic tech hub for those looking to boost their careers in software product development.

Our bright team FastTrack their career with international exposure and ways of working based on agile development best practices from globally renowned technology consultancies.

• Provide technical leadership within a matrix management function whereby you will have dotted (indirect) line reporting of the DevOps engineers. In practice this means that you will have responsibility and authority for the technical remit of the DevOps engineers but not have line management responsibilities freeing you up to focus on adding value within the technical domain as an individual contributor.
• Be hands-on using a wide range of Microsoft Azure technologies such as Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Key Vault, Azure Service Bus etc. In addition, project management in an agile scrum format, source control (git), build and deployment are handled within Azure DevOps. Evaluate the technical landscape taking ownership and accountability of the cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines ensuring standards are set and maintained in line with the Head of Architecture and Regional Architects.
• Ensure Alerting and Monitoring of the current Infrastructure.
• Propose solutions for automation for build, test and deploy of Infra components and ensure that they are followed.
• Work collaboratively with the Group Director of Architecture, Head of Architecture, and fellow architects to influence and steer technical leads as well as their teams towards pragmatic decisions as well as communicate team progress.
• Undertake R&D, prototype new approaches, technologies, techniques and ensure knowledge sharing to streams.

Continuous Improvement: advances by ongoing, incremental improvement through continuous learning, pair-programming, questioning the status quo and trying out creative and novel ideas. Pragmatic in approach, understanding that software and its architecture are fundamentally about trade-offs. Ability to work in a team of very experienced individuals, understands that egos are not productive, ability to listen and provide objective feedback.

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