Devops lead

Role Specifications

Experience ;- 5+ years

Mandatory Skills

Datadog, RUM, Session Replay, Distributed Tracing, APM, AWS, CloudFormation, AWS CDK, GitHub Actions, AWS CodePipeline, Incident Response, Load Performance Testing

Skills - Good to have

Experience with high-traffic platforms, campaign readiness, gamedays, infrastructure partner management, advanced AWS observability, performance engineering

General Activities
Implementation and continual improvement of our observability platform (Datadog), particularly but not limited to the user experience lens.
Working across our engineering squads as a virtual team member, helping with their DevOps and infrastructure requirements as well as helping them deliver observability as part of their engineering activities.
Participating in our campaign readiness activities, including but not limited to supporting load testing and participating in gamedays as an incident responder.
Liaising closely with our managed infrastructure provider on infrastructure requirements and activities.

Skills:
Strong hands-on experience instrumenting and configuring Datadog, particularly from a user experience perspective - RUM, Session Replay, distributed tracing, and APM.
Solid infrastructure-as-code capability (CloudFormation and CDK), comfortable reading and reviewing someone elses estate as well as writing their own.
A good working knowledge of GitHub Actions as well as AWS Code Pipeline.
Real incident response experience on high-traffic systems - able to lead an investigation through metrics and traces, not just provide the tooling for someone else to.
Exposure to load and performance testing as part of readiness work.
The presence to be a key liaison between our infrastructure partner and our internal platform team.
Availability for extended support hours during campaign period -approx. 6 months.
Excellent Communication skills since there will be Client Interview