<p><strong>Job Purpose and Background in summary</strong></p><p>In 2023 CDP underwent a complete digital transformation, seeing us transition the annual disclosure cycle from a paper-based, human-intensive and vendor-dependent stack, to a completely in-house developed, modernised and scalable product that will revolutionise the customer-experience for both external and internal users. As part of this transformation we also built completely new teams, spanning across Design, Product, and Engineering.</p><p>The newly built platform is made up of three unique domains;</p><ul><li>Disclosure: how CDP builds and programs questionnaires, and respondents provide their data</li><li>Scoring: how CDP scores and assesses respondents' data</li><li>Data: how CDP can provide datasets and products to customers</li></ul><p>We are hiring a Lead DevOps engineer to own the DevOps approach, processes and methodologies across our Engineering team. This role will be instrumental in ensuring that our DevOps pipeline is adequately managed, enhanced and continues to meet our evolving needs, that the Engineers have the right skills and support to integrate DevOps with their work, and that we have monitoring in place that is proactive, rather than reactive. This role will also manage one Senior DevOps Engineer.</p><p><strong>About CDP</strong></p><p>CDP is a not-for-profit charity that runs the global disclosure system for investors, companies, cities, states and regions to manage their environmental impacts. The world’s economy looks to CDP as the gold standard of environmental reporting with the richest and most comprehensive dataset on corporate and city action. In 2021 we launched our new five-year strategy: Accelerating the Rate of Change - <a href="https://www.cdp.net/en/info/about-us/our-five-year-strategy" target="_blank"><strong>find out more here</strong></a>. Visit <a href="https://cdp.net/en" target="_blank"> </a><a href="https://cdp.net/en" target="_blank"><strong>https://cdp.net/en</strong></a> or follow us @CDP to find out more. <br></p><p><strong>Key responsibilities include:</strong></p><ul><li><strong></strong>Reporting to the Director of Engineering, you will work across four squads.</li><li>Create, manage and own the processes, procedures and methodologies for the DevOps faculty across engineering.</li><li>Train, support and mentor the software engineers across the engineering squads to improve their skills and enable a DevOps capability across Engineering.</li><li>Ensure consistency of approach, method and documentation across the various squads.</li><li>Utilize Terraform to automate and manage cloud infrastructure, ensuring consistency and reliability across environments.</li><li>Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Azure Pipelines, ensuring seamless and efficient code integration and deployment.</li><li>Code Quality Assurance: Integrate and maintain code quality tools such as SonarCloud and Pylint to enforce coding standards and identify potential issues early in the development process.</li><li>Environment Coordination: Collaborate with development and testing teams to manage and troubleshoot environments (Dev, SIT, UAT, PreProd, Prod), ensuring smooth transitions and minimizing downtime.</li><li>Automation and Optimization: Continuously seek opportunities to automate repetitive tasks (such as through scripting / Powershell) and optimize processes for efficiency and effectiveness.</li><li>Release pipeline / CICD: whenever you want to deploy, need to run through the pipeline, tends to get longer as things stack, want DevOps to manage this efficiently.</li><li>Monitoring and Reporting: Implement monitoring solutions to proactively identify and address issues, and provide regular reports on infrastructure and pipeline health.</li><li>Cross-Team Communication: Act as the primary liaison between the infrastructure team and developers, facilitating clear and effective communication to align strategies and ensure consistent deployment practices.</li></ul><ul></ul><p><strong>You will have the following skills and experience:</strong></p><ul><li>Knowledge, interest, and passion for the environmental and / or sustainability space will be an advantage.</li><li>Background experience in software engineering essential</li><li>At least two years experience in leading DevOps for a large, scaled Azure platform<ul><li>Including experience with Azure/MS stack: DevOps, App services, Function Apps, Container Apps, MS SQL server, Service Bus</li><li>AZ-104 beneficial</li></ul></li><li>Highly capable with Python, Terraform, Powershell, Docker<ul><li>Typescript/javascript beneficial</li></ul></li><li>Excellent attention to detail and ability to think holistically and creatively about developing and implementing solutions that drive long-term benefits</li><li>Excellent communication and interpersonal skills to develop the team, help others, advocate for DevOps best practices and influence adoption<br></li><li>Entrepreneurial and growth-oriented in their workstyle to bring new ideas to the wider team</li></ul><p><br></p><p><strong>Salary and benefits</strong>:</p><ul><li>Working for a leading people-centric environmental NGO with dedicated, passionate and caring coworkers;<br></li><li>Competitive NGO salary and 8% Company Pension Program;</li><li>30 days annual holidays (with purchased leave options);</li><li>Flexible working hours (with option to take flex-days)</li><li>Up to 6 months remote work anywhere in the world</li><li>Paid sabbaticals, enhanced maternity/paternity/adoption leave</li><li>Office offering prayer room and breastfeeding facilities</li></ul><p><strong>Before you apply</strong></p><p>We’ll only use the information you provide to process your application. 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Last updated on Oct 14, 2024