DevOps Manager

Job Description - DevOps Manager (15679)

Description

easyJet holidays is the UK's fastest growing tour operator, with a mission to provide brilliant holidays at unbeatable prices in more than 100 destinations across Europe. We do this by combining easyJet's vast flight network with more than 5000 handpicked hotels and best-in-class technology to provide the perfect package holiday. We only launched in 2019 but already we have:

• Become the fastest growing, lowest cost travel business in the UK
• Achieved milestone customer numbers and taken almost 2 million customers away in our latest full year of trading, delivering significant profits to the easyJet group
• Launched an award-winning sustainability strategy with a focus on making a positive impact on the local communities that make our holidays so special
• Expanded our business into Europe, with Switzerland, Germany and France as our first source markets
• One of the Sunday Times Best Places to Work two years running, in both 2023 and 2024, as well as being named the Best Workplace in Travel 2023.

We have an exciting, unique opportunity for a DevOps Manager to come in and lead a talented group of DevOps Engineers from the front. DevOps is a growing team within easyJet Holidays who has the important mission of supporting the developers and the infrastructure of the whole company to achieve its goals. It is a very tight-knit team that moves fast and deals with a lot of pressure.

This is a permanent vacancy, based in Luton. (Hybrid Working)

What you'll be doing

• Bridge the gap between development and operations. Work with and manage the DevOps teams to deliver new ideas and projects.
• Automate our processes, enhance our existing automation, providing management insight on risks and opportunities to improve.
• Identify new technologies, methodologies and ways of working to improve effectiveness of the team.
• Work with the developers to create better development and deployment processes.
• Ensure our infrastructure is maintained and is 'fit for purpose' considering availability, capacity, scalability, performance, continuity and security.
• Monitor and manage the health of our systems.
• Collaborate with service delivery and second line support to improve operational activities.
• Work with product teams, platform teams and live service teams to understand needs and requirements for DevOps Support.
• Develop plans and forecasts to predict future team shape/composition and take necessary actions to address.
• Ensure talent recognition and performance management processes are effective and actioned where necessary.
• Ensure best practice / methodology is in place for automating and streamlining the software delivery process through the implementation of CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure as code practices.
• Take responsibility for ensuring the team monitor and maintain system health, ensuring optimal application performance and availability by identifying and resolving issues proactively.
• Lead the DevOps engineers in collaboration with development and operations teams to foster a culture of continuous improvement and innovation.

What you'll bring to the team

• Managing a team of highly skilled DevOps engineers but still enjoy being hands on
• Working with the business to create processes and ways of working
• Demonstrable experience of DevOps and cloud technologies.
• Excellent multi-tasking and strong communication skills.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• You are proficient with Windows and Linux operating systems.
• You possess a strong command of software-automation production systems (e.g. TeamCity, GitHub Actions).
• Excellent knowledge of Git.
• You are an expert in code deployment tools (preferably Octopus deploy).
• You are an expert in Infrastructure as Code (preferably Terraform).
• Knowledge of Logging & Monitoring with ELK or similar.
• You have a working knowledge of databases and SQL.
• Knowledge of Automated testing techniques and tooling.
• Experience of AWS.

What we can offer you

• Up to 20% bonus
• 25 days holiday
• BAYE, SAYE & Performance share schemes
• Life Assurance
• Flexible benefits package
• Excellent staff travel benefits

Business Area

Technology - easyJet holidays

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