Lead, Software Development, DevOps

About the role

We’re looking for a DevOps team lead who is accountable for the execution and delivery of a team of SRE/DevOps practitioners. You understand the importance of a DevOps mindset and have experience partnering with product development stakeholders to design and deliver a reliable, scalable, secure, and performant platform. This role is envisaged to be 50% technical and hands-on, 50% people leadership, process, and project management. Based out of Canada, in Provinces we can legally hire in, you will report to the Senior Manager, Software Development, DevOps.

WHAT YOU’LL DO:

- Enable development teams to:

- Provide executable interfaces to our infrastructure platform

- Provide tools and best practices to support the entire software development lifecycle

- Manage the reliability, security, and integrity of our large, cloud-based Linux infrastructure:

- Diagnose and repair distributed systems

- Implement runbooks, monitoring, and alerts

- Build, maintain, and improve infrastructure with infrastructure-as-code

- Lead/collaborate with team members and others across the organization to solve technical problems and build better systems and software

- Partner with direct team members as well as those cross-functionally within the department through mentoring, leading meetings and sharing work/best practices/ideas

- Implement continuous improvement efforts into the development of our team culture, processes and vision

- Use tools/methodologies like Agile to manage team projects and toils

- Participate in a flexible on-call rotation

WHAT YOU’LL NEED:

- A degree in Computer Science or Engineering, at least 5 years of experience in an SRE, DevOps or software engineering role, and a track record of substantial contributions to software projects with high business impact

- Experience using infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g. Terraform or Ansible) to build and run cloud infrastructure

- You have a strong background in cloud infrastructure design and operations, and can work within a team that will architect, build and automate the cloud production infrastructure on which Hootsuite runs.

- You are a leader and an influencer. You oversee broad solutions and clarify complex problems. You propose and champion improvements in processes and technology choices. You make your team and your teammates better.

- Collaboration and Teamwork: works with others to deliver results, meaningfully contributing to the team and prioritizing group needs over individual needs.

- Creativity and Innovation: seek new and better ways of doing things, generating original and imaginative ideas, products, and/or solutions.

- Resilience, Tolerance for Change/Ambiguity: can effectively cope with change, finding ways to advance work and projects.

- Builds inclusive, cohesive teams which apply diversity to achieve common goals