Software Engineering Manager

We are working with a global energy business to help them find a software focused manager for their Infrastructure and Operations team. This is a really exciting time for the business.

Location: Aberdeen
Salary: £70,000 + £5,000 car allowance
3 day per week in the office
You will be responsible for developing, mentoring and coaching interns & graduates as well as managing a group of experienced developers and engineers across several domains.

Job Description:
All Infrastructure and Operations domain subjects, including but not limited to Automation, Web application development, Operating Systems and Application distribution [Endpoint]:

• Ability to challenge, convince, organise and negotiate.

• Able to define, validate and provide cost solutions for projects and bids for customer requirements.
  
  
• Demonstrable and in-depth expertise in automation and serverless applications within Azure & AWS.

• Web application development in JavaScript & TypeScript.

• Proven, demonstrable and evidence-backed experience developing and Scripting with PowerShell.

• Proficient project management skills and ability to manage time and complex tasks.

• Strongly service orientation minded.

The Services in the scope are:

• All Infrastructure and Operations domain subjects, including but not limited to Automation, Web application development, Operating Systems and Application distribution [Endpoint].

Main Activities:

• Articulating, championing and planning the frequent delivery of business value and enhanced experience.

• Driving the team's activities to make sure platform integrity is maintained in line with technical roadmaps.

• Security first approach and hands-on approach to architecture, developing and deploying automation and serverless applications within Azure and AWS: Azure Functions, Automation Accounts, Logic Apps, Power Platform, APIs, Key Vaults, Microsoft Graph API, AWS Lamba, AWS EC2, AWS S3.

• Web application development in JavaScript & TypeScript using modern tools and technologies including: NodeJS, ReactJS, NextJSS, Tailwind CSS leveraging external APIs, application services, NoSQL and PostgreSQL databases and cloud storage utilities, VS Code.

• Managing daily operations within our client computing 'Endpoint' team which is responsible for OS & application distribution, patching, updates, builds and OSD images through SCCM and Intune:Apps 365, Autopilot, Azure VDI, Windows Server , Windows 10-11, Azure VDI, Active Directory.

• Seek out opportunities to simplify the platform architecture, services and customer solutions whilst guarding against introducing new complexities.

Experience Required:

• Ability to Interact with global multi-national team and willingness to learn and adapt quickly to new technologies whilst divesting already held knowledge and inspiring the wider team.

• A good team player with the ability to work under pressure.
  
  
• Experience acting as technical design authority to ensure interoperability of new and emerging technologies with existing infrastructure.
  
  
• Reasonable directly managing, mentoring and coaching engineering teams.

• Proven, demonstrable and evidence-backed experience developing and Scripting with PowerShell.

• Administration or architectural experience with Entra ID, Active Directory, Exchange, Teams, SharePoint, M365.

• Understanding of CI/CD development cycle, usage of distributed version control and collaboration tools, such as GitHub Enterprise.

• Familiarity with infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform as well as pipeline tools like GitGub Actions.

• Containerisation & orchestration within AWS leveraging your understanding and knowledge of Kubernetes, Amazon EKS and distributed engineering applications.

Nice To Have:

• Knowledge and understanding of voice technologies including SIP, VOIP, Session Border Controllers, Voice Gateways, Cisco Call Manager and Teams Direct Routing.
• Demonstrable practical experience with audio visual (A/V) technologies including Video Conferencing solutions, digital signage, A/V system architecture.

Due to the role requiring 3 days per week in the office we will only consider candidates in the local area.