Platform Engineer Delivery Lead
Silverstripe, New Zealand
Job Description
If you are passionate about people leadership with a side of IT wizardry, then keep reading for an awesome opportunity as a Platform Engineer Delivery Lead. This is a sign for you to take your career to the next level and work for a great New Zealand brand.
At Silverstripe, we create compelling experiences for people online using creativity, collaboration, and innovation. Making the complex simple in the digital world doesn’t just involve techit involves teams filled with determined people working to improve the lives of those around them.
Our Platform Engineering team is responsible for ensuring Silverstripe’s Platform is market leading for the Silverstripe CMS. This includes working with AWS and other vendors to enable and create new features as defined by the platform roadmap. The team is accountable for platform features and the handover of new features to the operational reliability team, while ensuring solutions provided are secure and documented and have a well understood lifecycle.
Requirements
What will I be doing?
- Leading, coaching and empowering an awesome team of Platform Engineers by creating an inspiring team environment with a transparent culture
- Driving engineering excellence through working collaboratively within a wide range of the business and technical stakeholders
- Providing an exceptional platform experience for our Managed Services Clients and engaging with internal stakeholders
- Solving problems related to the mission critical services and build automation to proactively detect and prevent their re-occurrences
- Leading technical operations on key initiatives or projects from requirements to design to implementation.
We’re looking for people who are:
- Known for their technical team leadership and mentorship with excellent interpersonal and communication skills?
- Keen innovators
- Adept at resolving conflict and removing blockers to ensure clients receive appropriate customer service
- Comfortable working with some ambiguity and able to self-direct work to achieve agreed outcomes
- Motivated to build best practices and deliver on the vision through action and transparency.
What will I need to be successful?
- 5 years’ experience in an engineering leadership role
- Experience leading DevOps and Automation
- Infrastructure as Code and a strong preference for automation
- Knowledge of AWS; website development and hosting; agile methodologies and software development
Benefits
At Silverstripe we're passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. Our DEI Employee Led Network (‘All Stripes’) work together to improve current practices to ensure our people feel valued and included.
Our culture sets us apart it’s a key reason that brings people to Silverstripe and keeps them here. Having fully stocked drinks and food cabinets encourage our Silverstripers to korero (talk) over kai (food) and kawhe (coffee)! You will get the chance to discover how great our people (and chat!) are through our regular lunch and learns. Oh did we mention Innovation week? Well, that’s something you do not want to miss out on!
All applications must be submitted through the Silverstripe website or by visiting silverstripe.workable.com