Development Manager - Cloud Engineering Team
At Glasswall, we are doing things a bit differently. Good different. And we’re not just talking about it; we’re walking the walk. The amount of learning, growth, progression, and positivity that we are experiencing right now makes the team excited and privileged to be here and be a part of our evolution.
We are on the hunt to add exceptional talent to our team - the next generation of talent who will be as excited as we are by modern thinking, ways of working and engineering practices. There’s a lot of cool things happening here coupled with incredible opportunities for learning, contribution, ownership and delivering world-class products that genuinely make handling digital documents safer for all.
A big part of our culture is openness, transparency, and diversity. We are striving to publish more of our work to the broader community and have closer engagement and collaboration with our customers and partners. We aim to find diverse and talented individuals from all walks of life and previous industry experience. Bringing different perceptions to the work we do; we believe we do it better. We have recently established an Organisational Health Committee and a Women In Tech group to better support openness, transparency and diversity here at Glasswall. We are constantly improving employee engagement in a hybrid and global working environment.
The talented candidate will have a software engineering background and have experience leading, mentoring and managing people. They will be working within our Cloud Engineering Team and have line management responsibility for a team of skilled engineers, collaborating closely with QA, Head of Dev Ops, Product Management and the Director of Operations and Product Delivery. The Dev Manager will lead and coordinate projects that map to our range of Products, ensuring adherence to modern engineering practices to deliver high quality technology. Establishing and maintaining good practices and standards across our product ecosystems will be a key area of focus.
This is a management role, reporting directly to the Head of Cloud Engineering. In addition, the role collaborates very closely with our Product Team and Operations and Delivery Lead. The role is based in the UK and requires UK RTW status. We offer flexible and remote working with occasional team meet ups.
Tech Stack: c#, Python, Git. Docker. Kubernetes, Azure, AWS, Microservice Architectures, Azure DevOps.
Required Experience
- Proven track record of involvement in complex technology projects
- Leading and inspiring high performing technology teams, establishing a culture of collaboration
- Aptitude for training, mentoring, leading technical teams, and effectively managing and communicating career progression and succession plan
- Ability to manage remote teams, and distributed teams
- Proven experience using a range of agile project management methods such as Scrum, Lean and SAFe
Responsibilities
A mix of product development, line management and delivery management:
- Recruitment, mentoring and professional development of staff including their assessment and performance management
- High-level planning of key product features
- Ensuring the appropriate planning and management of the development resources
- Facilitating the development of new products and tooling
- Identify risks and provide mitigation plans
- Escalate issues promptly to senior management
- Code quality and AppSec
- Accountable for enforcing the SSDLC (Secure Software Delivery Life Cycle) within the team
- Review and refine release process to enhance release cadence and delivery of software builds
- Assisting the support team with customer-related queries
- Enforcing coding standards and good practice for Python within the organisation
- Leading and inspiring high-performing technology teams, establishing a culture of collaboration
- Champion and represent the development team
- Responsible for the delivery of product features
- Review and refine release process to enhance release cadence and delivery of software builds
Technical knowledge, skills, and experience
- Stakeholder management
- Strong software engineering principles.
- Containerisation – Docker and Kubernetes
- Cloud environments. Like AWS, GCP or Azure
- Automation
- Proven experience using a range of agile project management methods such as Scrum, Lean and SAFe
- Desire for training, mentoring, leading technical teams, and effectively managing and communicating career progression and succession plans
- Experience in gathering metrics and making data-driven decisions
Behaviours
- Excellent communication, staff leadership and management skills
- Excellent planning and organisational skills
- High level of initiative, motivation, adaptability, with the ability to seek out solutions to problems
Beneficial Knowledge and experience
- Experience with Microsoft’s Technology stack
- Collaborating with a global and remote workforce
- Strong Azure or AWS knowledge
We encourage you to apply even if your experience is not a 100% match with the position. We are looking for someone with relevant skills and experience, not a checklist that exactly matches the job description. We want to help you grow, and in return, you help us grow into a stronger, more inclusive organisation.
Salary and Benefits
- Glasswall offers a competitive salary and incentives package
- Benefits include training and development opportunities, generous holiday, private health care and pension contribution
- We offer flexible and remote working options, with hybrid working from our office in the Greater London area
Application process
Interested candidates, please visit http://careers.glasswallsolutions.com/ to apply.
Reference materials
Glasswall website: www.glasswall.com
Glasswall blogs:
- Blogwall: https://www.glasswall.com/blog/
- Try CDR: https://www.glasswall.com/trycdr/