Lead DevOps Engineer

at  CFP Energy UK Ltd

About CFP Energy:
Our mission is to facilitate the transition to a low-carbon economy by providing innovative financial solutions to our clients.
We are not just any energy and sustainability group; we’re a dynamic, award-winning powerhouse! At the forefront of environmental innovation, we provide cutting-edge solutions for large-scale energy consumers. We do everything from guiding small businesses to corporate giants on their journey to achieve net zero emissions to expertly managing risks and supplying vital power and gas resources. But wait, there’s more! We’re not content with excelling in our current ventures - we thrive on pioneering new businesses and seizing energy investment opportunities.
About the role:
We are looking for a highly capable and experienced DevOps lead to head up our DevOps function within the business. You will focus on infrastructure, automation, security practices, and providing tooling solutions to streamline the path to live for the development team.
Our ideal candidate will be passionate about best practices within technology teams, fully supportive of what the group is doing, and who wishes to make a difference.

Responsibilities:

• Support and improve our existing Azure infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines and Kubernetes clusters.
• Lead our DevOps team; line manage permanent team members and have a coaching mindset.
• Collaborate and support developers, analysts, and data scientists to continually improve and innovate.
• Drive alerting and monitoring solutions to provide teams with better optics of the live application ecosystem, using tools such as DataDog or Grafana.
• Utilise configuration management and IaC tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef or Pulumi.
• Drive innovation by discovering new technologies, reviewing tooling, and making suggestions on improving our current stack and architecture.
• Drive the change you seek and be an autonomous, proactive, confident, credible, and persuasive team player.
• Adhere to agile methodologies and Kanban processes.

Experience Required:

• Previous experience managing multiple Kubernetes clusters, good understanding of GitOps, Helm design and implementation.
• Expertise with IaC tooling (Terraform).
• Expertise with token / secret management tools (Hashicorp Vault).
• Expertise with monitoring and alerting platforms, such as ELK, DataDog, Grafana, Loki, etc.
• Deep knowledge of networking and DNS.
• Good understanding of GIT/version control and SDLC build pipelines (GitHub Actions, TeamCity).
• Previous experience with microservices and event-driven architectures.
• Excellent project & product management skills.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively interact with clients, team members, and stakeholders at all levels.
• Cloud certificates preferred, ideally Azure.

Benefits:

• 25 days annual leave in addition to Bank holidays.
• Hybrid working pattern.
• Discretionary bonus scheme.
• Company pension scheme.
• Life and medical insurance, and eyecare scheme.
• Employee Assistance Program.
• Cycle to work scheme.
• Family-friendly policies.
• Recruit and Reward scheme.
• Access to perk-box benefits package.

Join us in our mission to protect and secure critical infrastructure in an increasingly connected world. If you are a strategic thinker, a natural leader, and passionate about cybersecurity, we want to hear from you!
The CFP Group is committed to ensuring equal opportunities, fairness of treatment, dignity and respect, and the elimination of all forms of discrimination in the workplace for all employees/contractors and job applicants

• Support and improve our existing Azure infrastructure, CI/CD pipelines and Kubernetes clusters.
• Lead our DevOps team; line manage permanent team members and have a coaching mindset.
• Collaborate and support developers, analysts, and data scientists to continually improve and innovate.
• Drive alerting and monitoring solutions to provide teams with better optics of the live application ecosystem, using tools such as DataDog or Grafana.
• Utilise configuration management and IaC tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Chef or Pulumi.
• Drive innovation by discovering new technologies, reviewing tooling, and making suggestions on improving our current stack and architecture.
• Drive the change you seek and be an autonomous, proactive, confident, credible, and persuasive team player.
• Adhere to agile methodologies and Kanban processes