Lead DevOps Engineer - Jenkins
About The Position
Citco seeks a highly skilled technical lead to spearhead the development of a common enterprise pipeline tool, define CI/CD strategy, and drive adoption across our organization. This role merges deep technical expertise with team leadership, ensuring that our pipeline solutions support all our current and future needs. The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of building large, scalable Jenkins infrastructure and is a creative thinker, problem solver, teacher, learner and should have excellent collaboration skills. This is a hands-on technical leadership role focused on developing the next generation enterprise pipeline infrastructure. This position reports to the SVP of Enterprise Architecture and Platform Engineering and is a great opportunity for someone who thrives in a fast paced environment and someone who has that unique combination of technical savvy and interpersonal skills.
Requirements
- Strong background in Jenkins, Octopus Deploy, and other CI/CD tools. Familiarity with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, or equivalent cloud/DevOps tech is a plus.
- Solid coding skills (e.g., Python, Node.js) and a solid grasp of version control (Git).
- 3+ years of experience in leading and managing a team and accountable for deliverables.
- Experience with AWS, Azure, or similar cloud providers. Strong understanding of IaC principles.
- Experience of Automating Infrastructure deployment
- Demonstrate hands on working knowledge with AWS and its services, including but not limited to EC2, S3, IAM, RDS, Python and Aurora
- Experience in Software-Defined-Networks, Software-Defined-Data-Centers, Virtual Private Clouds and other core network technology
- Experienced with DevOps & ITIL.
- Proactive, enthusiastic and ambitious
- Good team worker with excellent verbal and written communication skills
Responsibilities
- Lead the design and implement a unified enterprise pipeline framework leveraging Jenkins, Octopus Deploy, or other relevant tools.
- Build a scalable Jenkins platform that can handle multiple concurrent jobs and service all IT teams.
- Assess emerging CI/CD technologies, recommend improvements, and drive tool adoption across teams.
- Lead a team of developers and devops engineers to build a robust Jenkins platform
- Define deliverables and timelines and be responsible for ensuring these are met on time.
- Work closely with cross-functional stakeholders to gather requirements, align on strategy, and champion DevOps culture.
- Pipeline administration and ensure all teams utilise Infrastructure as Code to effect change and that the environment features the required controls and audit components to validate resource compliance
- Provide technical leadership, mentoring and coaching for all staff and foster a culture of operational excellence, accountability, innovation and collaboration
- Define and implement all operational components required to proactively monitor and manage the production environment, identify operational issues and maintain efficient operations
- Lead team through all service disruptions to ensure services are restored; drive root cause analysis and remediation initiatives post any service disruption
- Define and enforce governance, security, and compliance standards across the pipeline ecosystem.
- Identify bottlenecks, propose optimizations, and push for end-to-end automation in the deployment process
Benefits
- Your well-being is of paramount importance and central to our success here at Citco. Citco offers a comprehensive and competitive total rewards package to support your career success and personal needs. Your base salary will be determined by several factors such as the role, experience, skillset, market conditions, etc. Furthermore, qualifying positions can participate in an annual discretionary bonus pool based on company profitability and individual contributions. Our comprehensive benefits package includes medical, dental, and vision coverage, short and long-term disability benefits, a retirement savings plan, tuition reimbursement, mental health and wellness support, parental leave, and more. Additional details about our total rewards package will be shared during the hiring process.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Industry
Administrative and Support Services
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
