Head of Software Engineering at TalentintheCloud

A bit about the role:

The ideal candidate will be responsible for developing and executing the strategy to implement a greenfield in-house software engineering capability. This capability will enable the company to transition from high vendor dependency to owning the development and release process of digital applications.

Your daily adventures include:      

• Setting technical standards, SDLC processes, defining standard toolsets covering high-level architecture, programming languages, application servers/platforms and integration
• Defining approaches (SOA, Microservices, Brokers, Streaming etc); programming design patterns; programming standards
• Development tools and tooling (IDEs, build tools, dependency management, source formatting, quality enforcement)
• Source code management, branching, releasing, git flow procedures & processes; source code security, access control
• Building artifact management, versioning and controls, building environments & developer productivity
• API & code documentation (written & automated generation)
• CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes/procedures
• Containerisation, container registries and versioning
• Code scanning & security controls
• Coding standards & patterns for security, access, authorisation and accounting; coding standards for exploit mitigation (SQL injection, XSS, CSRF)
• Configuration management
• Capacity planning, monitoring, alerting and runtime visibility
• Team skills assessments & training recommendations
• Agile delivery processes & controls – epics, stories, tasks & backlog management and prioritization & associated tooling
• Production environment topology, security, scalability, resilience & deployment/rollback processes & procedures
• Business/Product ownership, quality assurance and quality gates
• Using data and feedback from participants and peers to drive continuous optimization of cross-functional team structures and software development processes
• Assuring that security and accessibility continue to be primary goals in the construction of any software

What it takes to succeed:

• Experience with modern data technologies (Kafka, Kinesis, Snowflake), relational database systems (MySQL) and ability to work with large databases including open source (MongoDB, MariaDB, Athena etc)
• Experience in DevOps (inc DevSecOps) methodologies and CI/CD toolsets
• Understanding and knowledge of scaling and proven track record of scaling systems
• Experience profiling and optimizing code on all tiers of an application
• Experience in managing container orchestration and serverless environments, and deployment across hybrid and public cloud scenarios