Lead, Software Development, DevOps
Role Overview
Lead a team of SRE/DevOps practitioners and be accountable for execution and delivery.
The role is approximately 50% hands-on technical work and 50% people leadership, process, and project management.
The position is based out of Canada in provinces where the company can legally hire; it reports to the Senior Manager, Software Development, DevOps.
Key Skills for This Role
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Role overview
Lead a team of SRE/DevOps practitioners and be accountable for execution and delivery.
The role is approximately 50% hands-on technical work and 50% people leadership, process, and project management.
The position is based out of Canada in provinces where the company can legally hire; it reports to the Senior Manager, Software Development, DevOps.
What you'll do
- Enable development teams with executable infrastructure interfaces, tools, and software lifecycle best practices.
- Manage reliability, security, and integrity of large cloud-based Linux infrastructure; diagnose and repair distributed systems.
- Implement runbooks, monitoring, and alerts; build, maintain, and improve infrastructure as code.
- Collaborate to solve technical problems and improve systems and software.
- Mentor team members, lead meetings, and share practices and ideas across teams.
- Improve team culture, processes, and vision; use Agile methods to manage projects and operational work.
- Participate in a flexible on-call rotation.
What you'll need
- A degree in Computer Science or Engineering and at least 5 years of experience in SRE, DevOps, or software engineering.
- A record of substantial contributions to high-business-impact software projects.
- Experience using infrastructure-as-code tools such as Terraform or Ansible to build and run cloud infrastructure.
- Strong background in cloud infrastructure design and operations.
- Ability to lead, influence, clarify complex problems, and champion process and technology improvements.
- Ability to build inclusive teams, deliver results through others, set direction, and develop team capabilities.
Leadership and collaboration
- The employer seeks collaboration, creativity, resilience, adaptability, clear communication, accountability, and an inclusive approach to teamwork.
Company principles
Hootsuite describes principles including stepping up, teamwork, customer focus, agility, competitive results, and community allyship.
Hiring process
- Accommodations are available for candidates participating in the selection process.
- Artificial intelligence may support screening, assessment, or interview-feedback summaries; people make final hiring decisions.
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