DevOps Team Lead

The DevOps Team Lead will play a key role in an innovative and growing company. Reporting directly to the Chief Technology Officer, this role will oversee both a software development process and its continued operation after release. On the software development end, the DevOps Team Lead works to actively manage the development pipeline according to defined SLAs and works closely with the Product Manager to review new product enhancements ensuring the successful implementation of them back into the product. At the same time, performing programming duties and working on active development projects. On the operations end, the DevOps Team Lead works to ensure the production application in our clients is patched, tuned, our clients are supported, and keeps all aspects of the product up to date. The DevOps Team Lead will be leading a team of systems engineers, Oracle programmers and application analysts and will provide guidance, support, and performance feedback.

Below is the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We encourage you to apply even if you feel that you do not meet all the below qualifications. Frequently cited statistics show that women and underrepresented groups apply to jobs only if they meet 100% of the qualifications. Lodestar encourages you to break that statistic and to apply. No one ever meets 100% of the requirements. We look forward to your application!

The candidate should reside in North America

Responsibilities

* Managerial Role - Lead, mentor, and develop a team of skilled DevOps professionals, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement.

* Continuous Delivery - building, testing, deploying applications quickly and in an automated manner.

* Infrastructure Automation - creating systems, OS configuration, and application deployments as code.

* Site Reliability Engineering - operate systems; monitoring, orchestration, and designing for operability and security.

* Collaborating with the Chief Technology Officer on continuously improving the product, architecture, and efficiency of supporting the application

* Defining, testing, and patching our Oracle db and Oracle Analytics application.

* Manage the day-to-day testing activities of the Dev team which includes resource allocation, escalating and resolving software defects and issues, participating in release testing activities.

* Research, gather feedback, and help build momentum for change within the organization as we move to a SaaS environment

* Gather product & business requirements, gut check new ideas and proposals, balance tech-debt and delivery of product functionality

* Accountable to the applications availability, performance and participate in high priority escalation calls

* Effectively manage multiple highly visible priorities at a time

* Influence or provide input to cost and capacity forecasting and planning activities

* Ensuring production is managed, supported, and controlled with the appropriate level of governance and agility

* Manage internally developed releases

* Managing development pipeline to defined SLA's

* Client communication

* Performance tuning

Qualifications

Mandatory Skills:

* 5+ years of experience in product development or DevOps

* Experience managing and leading a team of programmers through the software development life cycle

* Excellent programming/scripting skills in Oracle PL/SQL, Java, Python, PowerShell, Bash

* Experience with Cloud / Virtualization concepts and tools (AWS, Azure, or OCI)

* Must have experience with basic infrastructure services like LDAP, DNS, DHCP, Active Directory

* Good understanding of modern source control tools and associated methodologies

* Good understanding of Financial Services data

* REST APIs knowledge

* Thorough understanding of DevOps culture and Agile Methodology.

Good to have:

* Oracle Analytics experience an asset

* Oracle APEX experience an asset

* SaaS and multi-tenant development experience

* Cloud security and knowledge of cybersecurity in the context of the cloud.

* Prior telecom and networking experience is helpful.

Soft Skills:

* Strong command on spoken and written English.

* Ability to multi-task and handle changing priorities.

* Excellent team skills, can-do attitude, focus on quality and drive to make a difference in a dynamic, fast paced organization.