Join AM as a Lead DevOps Engineer! 

We are on the hunt for proactive, passionate, and highly collaborative DevOps Engineer keen to guide and mentor dynamic teams. If you're looking to step up into a management role, or push your management and leadership skills to the next level, this could be the role for you.

About us

At AM, we're helping to turn primary sources into digital adventures, unveiling the mysteries of hidden voices. We architect tools that empower AM's editorial teams and our SaaS customers to manage and present digitised materials, and help students and researchers to explore and share historical information from physical archives.

We thrive in agility - adapting, learning, and iterating swiftly; engineering at AM is dynamic and progressive, requires high standards, and always look for ways to improve.

About the role

Our DevOps Engineers maintain our cloud infrastructure to support our business applications, and enable rapid and automated deployment of code to support the efforts of the development teams. Typically they work:

• Alongside the tech leadership group to identify future tools and practices pertaining to CI/CD and our infrastructure
• Alongside development teams support them in with their delivery objectives, including during the design and planning stages.
• Within a maintenance and support function, as a caretaker for existing cloud infrastructure and deployment tools.

The Lead DevOps Engineer manages a team of DevOps engineers and oversees the entire cloud infrastructure, ensuring security, stability, and continuous deployment effectiveness. In this leadership role, you’ll take ownership of cloud infrastructure, lead strategic DevOps initiatives, and foster a high-performing, highly collaborative team culture.

As a Lead DevOps Engineer, you will:

• Manage a small team of DevOps engineers, providing them with mentorship and supporting their professional development
• Lead our DevOps and Infrastructure function, taking ownership of the team's working practices, quality, and effectiveness.
• Work closely alongside the engineering leadership community to progress our infrastructure and deployment strategy, bringing new ideas and perspectives to discussions, supporting initiatives that create value for the business
• Work with development teams, supporting them with their delivery objectives, participating in design, planning, and implementation.
• Act as a caretaker for existing cloud infrastructure and deployment tools, monitoring, maintaining and hardening.
• Champion debate, collaboration, experimentation, and exploration. Mentoring and coaching others to do the same. 
• Take accountability for the team's success, growth, and health. Ensuring plans are updated and communicated, that the team engages with continuous learning and improvement, and that success is measured.

We work in a hybrid environment - from home and in our offices. However, face-to-face collaboration is important to us. You should expect to travel to our head office in Marlborough around once per month, depending on your location. Sometimes we collaborate in other locations, so UK and overseas travel may be necessary from time to time.

Who we seek

We're looking for an expert DevOps engineer who:

• Values, understands and encourages collaborative ways of working, from solution design to coding and testing.
• Is passionate about continuously learning and finding new and interesting ways to improve both our technology and team effectiveness.
• Loves the journey at least as much as the destination - understanding and embracing the work required to realise our vision.
• Enjoys and embraces the freedom and responsibility of autonomy.
• Understands the importance of servant leadership and a coaching mindset in cultivating empowerment, as well as the dynamics of managing DevOps engineers.
• Understands the dynamics and value of Agile, Lean, and DevOps
• Understands continuous deployment, and has significant expertise in creating and maintaining deployment tools.
• Has significant experience implementing and maintaining cloud infrastructure, with either Azure or AWS (or ideally both).
• Has a solid understanding of cloud security principles and tools, and security compliance frameworks such as SOC2.
• Is well versed in observability and incident management.

Our technology

Our applications are build with variety of languages, and our core tech stack right now is .Net, React, AWS. 

We are re-platforming in Azure, and our DevOps engineers will play a critical role in helping to architect the way forwards. This represents a unique opportunity to have a major impact on our future success. 

Our platform uses a microservice architecture. We use GitHub Actions for CI and Kubernetes for our container orchestration.

Our stack and toolkit is not fixed. Our teams our empowered and expected to chart their course and find the right solution for each problem.

Our offering

• A highly progressive, innovative, and flexible environment in which each team member can genuinely impact success.
• 5% minimum time allocation for training, and tailored training opportunities.
• A competitive salary (reviewed annually), and the opportunity to continuously grow and develop your career. We take great pride in upskilling and promoting our employees.
• A hybrid, flexible working environment where you can plan your week to allow for work-life balance and that will allow you to work from home at least on three days weekly.

You can read more about our complete benefits package here.

Find out more & apply

You can read more about life in our engineering teams in our Playbook, 

You can read about what success in the role and progression looks like in our published progression & competency framework.

You can found out more about life at AM and in the engineering teams on our careers site.

And there's loads more detail in the job description and application packs we send out to applicants.