DevOps Architect / Head of DevOps

Department: Engineering

Employment Type: Full time

Location: Middlesbrough, UK

In this role, you’ll provide architectural direction, hands-on support, and people leadership to a small, distributed group of DevOps engineers embedded across cross-functional teams. Working closely with technical architects and operations, you will lead the Amplience DevOps function, facilitating the smooth integration of DevOps practices into the product team's day to day.

Key Responsibilities

Solution Architecture - Collaborate with various teams as part of the Architect Group to design and implement solutions that meet business requirements.
Line Management - Manage a group of embedded DevOps engineers across teams, providing mentorship, coaching, and performance management to foster professional growth and development.
Driving Quality and Standards - Work with the Architect Group to identify opportunities to improve quality and work with teams to effect change, promoting reliability, security, performance, observability etc.
Security and Compliance - Ensure systems remain compliant with relevant controls. Look to work across DevOps/Operations to identify and funnel critical infrastructure security and compliance issues into product backlog.
Cost Management – Manage the budget for development environments / software and help teams track and manage spending against budgetary constraints.
Hands-On Development - Lead by example, demonstrating technical proficiency and contributing directly to team project deliverables where needed.
Reporting, Stakeholder Communication & Align - Provide regular updates on team performance, initiatives, and challenges to leadership and stakeholders.

Skills Knowledge and Expertise

AWS Expertise– Deep understanding of a wide range of AWS services, their applications and constraints.
Infrastructure as code: Proficient with AWS eco-system IaC tooling such as CDK/TypeScript/CloudFormation.
CI/CD Proficiency – Deep knowledge of the software development lifecycle, including automation best practices and CI/CD tools such as Github actions.
Scalable System Design – Experience building and maintaining scalable, highly available systems, employing industry-standard patterns and methodologies, SLAs/SLOs.
NoSQL Expertise – Familiarity with NoSQL principles, having used at least one commercially (e.g. DynamoDB, MongoDB, Cassandra).
Design Patterns – Familiarity with modern infrastructure design patterns, e.g. Serverless computing, Containerization, Gateways, Event Brokers.

Education & Experience

8+ years of experience working with AWS & Cloud.
8+ years’ experience as a DevOps Engineer.
3+ years’ experience leading a team
Prior background in a SaaS is a plus.

Benefits

So what’s in it for you? Aside from using some great technologies and working with smart friendly people who are very generous with their knowledge, we have a great set of benefits to recognise everybody’s individual needs.

Competitive Salary
25 days Holiday Allowance
Length of Service Holidays
Option to Purchase Additional Holidays
Birthday Off
Quarterly Company Wide Recharge Day
Flexible Working Arrangements
Flexi-Friday
Employee Assistance Programme
Company Pension Scheme
Enhanced Maternity & Paternity Policies
Charity/volunteer days
Life Assurance Policy
Ride to Work Scheme
Season Ticket Advance Loans
Employee Discount Programme

Amplience UK Ltd. / Amplience, Inc. is an equal-opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, colour, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Amplience fosters a business culture where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create and be relevant in a rapidly changing world.

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About Amplience

Amplience is an API-first, headless CMS and DAM in one: a unified platform for commerce content that does everything you need it to. Organize, find and enrich all your assets from a central library. Optimize and automate your product media, images and videos.

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