Lead Developer - Innovation DevOps

Job reference number 107081 Lead Developer - Innovation (DevOps) Full time Permanent Royal Mail Farringdon About Us The Royal Mail Technology team is passionate about delivering high-quality products and outstanding digital experiences to our customers. Technology is instrumental in helping us achieve our objective to be recognised as the best delivery company in the UK and across Europe. With a workforce of 150,000, our core network handles c.16 billion letters and c.1 billion parcels a year, delivering to more than 29 million addresses, 6 days a week. Our technology vision is to “Enable, Digitise, Realise”. Role & Responsibilities: To enable to transformation of Royal Mail’s technology the company is looking to new and exciting ways in which to deliver value. To support this, we’re looking for motivated and skilled people to be part of our DevOps Tooling Platform. This is a team of DevOps evangelists that guide the rest of IT in the ways of DevOps. We also run interesting proof of concept pieces and share skills and knowledge in the team. This role is to be a senior member in our team, taking ownership of products in the stack and managing demand across the business for tools and best practise DevOps processes. As a lead you will be expected to be a role model and manage the people in the team. You may ask yourself, what is ‘innovation’? To us innovation is the ability to look at doing things a different way, to leverage new technology coming through and help those in the business come along in that journey. This role has a specific emphasis on thinking on your feet and suggesting new ways of doing things. We’ve recently taken on more new tech than we can handle and need to expand the team to support this. Cloud technology is being used more and more and we’re adopting tools to support this. Skills Needed: Able to bring the experience and ideas the will help the Royal Mail deliver large scale Enterprise programmes A confident communicator – verbally, written and in code A capable generalist with a holistic approach to engineering challenges Committed to the values of software craftsmanship Identification of improvement opportunities Ability to adapt and innovate Candidates to show competencies in 4/5 of the following: Atlassian Stack support/use Jira Confluence Bitbucket Azure DevOps Infrastructure Experience Hashicorp Terraform Puppet Pro Ansible General Networking Experience Containers/Kubernetes/Docker Azure VMs XebiaLabs Release Cloud Experience Google Cloud Platform Azure What we offer – When you join the team you will receive a Competitive Salary & Bonus, Car allowance, you’ll get 25 days holiday (as well as the 8 bank holidays) scheme, pension, life assurance and many other benefits. About Royal Mail: The Royal Mail Technology team is passionate about delivering high-quality products and outstanding digital experiences to our customers. Technology is instrumental in helping us achieve our objective to be recognised as the best delivery company in the UK and across Europe With a workforce of almost 160,000, our core network handles c.14 billion letters and c.1.8 billion parcels a year, delivering to c. 30 million addresses, 6 days a week. Our technology therefore needs to operate at scale. As a data driven business, with the largest PDA estate in the country, our systems need to handle more than 60m scan events and 1.4bn data points per day. Royal Mail is committed to building an internal development and testing capability, driving digital innovation across the business enabling our business to transform at pace. You will be working for a brand that’s a household name and a critical part of the UK’s infrastructure. Our technology vision is to “Enable, Digitise, Realise”: Enable - Create environments where open conversations are the norm and where teams work alongside each other to complement skills. Digitise - Utilise Technology to support the business. Making Technology thinking integral to the business. Increase the level of automation and implement connected systems. Realise - Invest in technology and keep taking all opportunities to consolidate systems. Focus on removing complexity within our systems and enable our cost base to decrease. We are fully embracing Agile and DevOps, and using tools such as Alexa, Azure and Google Cloud, Chatbot, Microsoft .NET Core, Angular and mobile apps. Our priorities include: Our postmen/women use 80,000 Android mobile devices and we are continuing to roll out new Apps all the time to help them to deliver a first class customer service. International business is one of our fastest growing areas - our IT systems have to integrate with IT systems in over 200 different territories in order for customers to track their parcels around the world. Continuously expanding our services to our customers, utilising predictive analytics and personalised services. Transforming our customer’s digital journey’s through our website which is in the top 50 most visited UK websites – with 300m visits per annum, from 100m devices, resulting in 1bn page views, with 9.2m registered users, 20m unique visitors per month, and peaking at 7m visits per day during the Christmas peak. We are an inclusive employer with equality, diversity and fairness at the heart of our values and we’re proud to be recognised in The Times Top 50 Employers for Women 2019 for a 6th consecutive year. We welcome applications from individuals from diverse backgrounds and are committed to promoting fair participation and equality of opportunity for all of our job applicants. We are happy to have a conversation about flexible working, depending on the role and subject to business needs. Closing Date: 22/04/2020. Please note, this advert may close early if the appropriate number of applications has been reached. LI-POST RMG Job Segment: Engineer, Developer, Bank, Banking, Cloud, Engineering, Technology, Finance