Automation and Analytics Team Lead

Automation and Analytics Team Lead

Permanent - Full Time

London, GB, W1A 1AA

Job Reference: 21720
Band: D
Salary: Up to £72,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.
Contract type: Permanent role
Location: Office Base is London. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working.

Role is mapped to Systems Engineer, Team Lead on our Career Path Framework.

We're happy to discuss flexible working. Flexible working will be part of the discussion at offer stage.

Excellent career progression - the BBC offers great opportunities for employees to seek new challenges and work in different areas of the organisation.
Unrivalled training and development opportunities - our in-house Academy hosts a wide range of internal and external courses and certification.
Benefits - We offer a negotiable salary package, a flexible 35-hour working week for work-life balance and 25 days annual leave with the option to buy an extra 5 days, a defined pension scheme and discounted dental, health care and gym.

Main Responsibilities

As an Automation and Analytics Team Lead, you will:

1. Work independently and be self-motivated, providing technical and architectural leadership to a team of Automation Infrastructure Engineers, Developers, and Analysts.
2. Automate the provisioning, deployment, scaling, and monitoring of the on-prem BBC IaaS virtualisation platform.
3. Develop libraries and scripts to automate manual tasks and technical operations.
4. Create analytics dashboards, monitors, and reports.
5. Collaborate with various teams to brainstorm automation use cases.
6. Produce and maintain the Automation Service framework and tools.
7. Continuously improve existing automation capabilities.
8. Communicate with users of automation tools to understand their needs and maintain a backlog of solutions.
9. Perform retrospectives to improve delivery solutions.
10. Assist the IaaS Infrastructure team with Infrastructure as Code implementations.
11. Design and develop automation processes and tools in various programming languages.
12. Lead in the maintenance and creation of Automation and Analytics Team documentation.
13. Work closely with infrastructure, operations, and development teams to resolve any arising problems.

Are you the right candidate?

You will be an experienced team lead within technical operations or systems engineering with demonstrable experience in producing solutions for Automation, Analytics, Reporting, Development, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and DevOps.

We would like to hear from you if you have some of the below additional skills/experience:

• VM's - Systems Administration, Security, Deployment, Management and Patching on RHEL / Ubuntu / CentOS.
• Containers - RHEL OpenShift / Docker / Kubernetes Implementation.
• Infrastructure - VMware ESXI / vCenter / NSX, Nutanix.
• Automation - Ansible / AAP / AWX Development.
• Development - Python, PowerShell, Yaml, Java, etc.
• CI/CD and IoC - Terraform, Packer, Jenkins, Git.
• Analytics - VMware Aria vRealise Operations, Grafana, Tableau.

About the BBC

The BBC is committed to redeploying employees seeking suitable alternative employment within the BBC for different reasons and they will be given priority consideration ahead of other applicants. We don't focus simply on what we do - we also care how we do it. Our values and the way we behave are important to us.

Diversity matters at the BBC. We value and respect every individual's unique contribution, enabling all of our employees to thrive and achieve their full potential.

We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome applications from individuals, regardless of age, gender, ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, socio-economic background, religion and/or belief.

DISCLAIMER

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance.