DevOps Team Lead

The Company

Cubic³ provides advanced software-defined vehicle solutions to over 200 countries around the world. Our powerfully smart connectivity enables leading automotive, agriculture, and transportation OEMs to deliver innovative new services and fully compliant in-vehicle experiences that customers desire, regardless of local market requirements.

We believe in leadership that supports empowerment and responsibility, while recognising and developing leadership qualities across Our Team. Together we bring out the best in each other. So, whether you’re interested in joining us as an individual contributor, manager, senior leader – or someone who aspires to growing into a leadership role – we look for people who are results focused, empathetic, visionary, empowering, and who ‘champion’ our cultures and values.

The Role

Cubic is looking for an energetic, enthusiastic DevOps Team Lead to manage the DevOps / DevEx Team.

The role and the team it leads are part of the DevOps and Architecture group. This team enables faster delivery and reliability by automating cloud infrastructure and on-premise hardware. The team streamlines deployments, reduces manual effort, and ensures consistent, scalable operations. It also creates an engineering experience for teams by streamlining tools, environments, and practices to accelerate development, create consistency in delivery, improve quality, and reduce friction across the software lifecycle

Key Responsibilities

• Driving best-in-class DevOps engineering principles within the Technology Group.

• Working closely with Engineering Leaders and Architects to align and implement best practices

• Driving efficiency in the team to maximise customer value and minimise waste including a reduction in cycle time, and improved Self-Service capabilities

• Leading the team through an evolution in Continuous Delivery, driving automation of build, deployment and test, across cloud and DC environments

• Providing guidance to direct reports in the performance of their duties, establishing work priorities, and in achieving company initiatives.

• Pro-actively working with cross-functional teams of engineers to drive DevOps practices and tooling adoption.

• Building and maintaining the developer experience tooling (CI/CD pipelines and supporting engineering and AI Tooling infrastructure).

• Build out Engineering Quality Dashboards and Engineering Portals to provide developer experience metrics and insights; gather feedback and drive iterative improvements.

• Driving Lean principles and focusing on continuous process improvement and adoption.

• Tracking metrics and data - communicating with the team and upper management.

• Staying abreast of the latest trends in the DevOps (Cloud and On-prem) space.

Requirements

Essential Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, IT, computer/electronic engineering, or related discipline.

• Strong People Management skills

• Experience in Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery & Automation.

• Experience of running and maintaining Hybrid environments in both Data Centre and cloud (AWS or Azure)

• Experience in measuring and improving the performance of production systems.

• Experience with common patterns in distributed systems, e.g. REST, SOA, SaaS, Microservices.

• Experience of practically managing a virtualised DC environment (experience of VMWare or equivalent products)

• Industry experience with Agile development methodologies

• Experience managing and integrating with Engineering Portals

• Experience with any of the following build and deployment automation platforms or similar tooling: Azure DevOps, GitLab, Bamboo, Teamcity, Jenkins, Octopus Deploy.

• Experience using Git, Gitflow (branching model).

• Strong problem-solving skills

• Strong attention to detail

Desirable Skills

• Result oriented and focused on successful delivery.

• Excellent communicator with both technical and non-technical subjects.

• Demonstrated strong sense of ownership, enthusiasm for technology and initiative.

• Natural team player and leader promoting the team members and helping their professional growth.

• Demonstrated strong performance in the fast-paced and growing team environment.

• Experience in highly scalable, highly available SAAS platforms.

New hires at Cubic³ are required to work onsite five days a week during their six-month probation period to get to know the company, their team, and our ways of working. After probation, we offer a flexible arrangement of up to eight work-from-home days per month, provided it aligns with business needs and performance standards. This arrangement is not a given for all roles.

Cubic³ is an equal opportunities employer and committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace.