Want to shape one of the UK’s fastest-growing daily deals businesses, from the very centre of their Technical team? Are you a DevOps pro and ready for your next challenge? Then look no further, as Wowcher are hiring!
❗Visa sponsorship can be offered for this role, for the right candidate!
What’s the job?
Wowcher Technical is a team of around 40 in a company of nearly 300. They are responsible for all the internal and external systems here at Wowcher and the company is growing fast… so life can be pretty hectic at times!
They need bright, motivated people to join their expanding technical team to deliver superb software in support of the continued growth. Work is a mixture of small business-as-usual changes, small-to-medium sized projects and large development/re-engineering projects. We value creativity, pragmatism, a “can-do” attitude and a willingness to get involved!
⚙️ What will you be doing?
DevOps Team Lead is needed to join the DevOps team at Wowcher. They are committed to becoming a true DevOps house and want your help.
The role will require close liaison with development and test teams to increase effectiveness of current dev processes. Participation in an out-of-hours emergency support rota will be required. You will be shaping the way that Wowcher use their DevOps tools and innovating to deliver business value and improve the cadence of the entire dev team.
Who are they looking for?
These are the essential requirements…
- Experience managing a distributed team across regions
- Working in an agile (scrum) and lean environment
- Great communication skills, able to explain technical topics to wider business
- Good knowledge of Amazon Web Services suite (EC2, ECS, Loadbalancing, VPC, S3, RDS, Lambda, Cloudwatch, IAM etc)
- Experience with continuous integration/deployment & automation tools (we use Jenkins, git, Puppet, Terraform)
- Experience with Linux administration
- Working experience deploying, maintaining, and monitoring Java web-based applications
- Experience with docker
- System and application monitoring, log archiving and processing (we use Splunk & Cloudwatch)
- Experience with software build tools (maven, sbt, node)
These are the nice-to-haves…
- Oracle/SQL database maintenance experience
- Elastic Search
- Serverless/container based approach
- Automated testing of infrastructure deployments
- Experience of performance testing & JVM tuning
- Experience of a high-volume distributed eCommerce environment
- Experience working closely with Agile development teams
- Familiarity with load testing tools & process
- Experience with nginx, tomcat and apache
- Experience with Cloudflare
You will be experienced in leading a dynamic team, communicating effectively with senior staff, working autonomously and independently. You will be keen to bring an entire team to the next level of delivering business value. A proactive approach to problem-solving technical and process issues is essential.
Sound like you? Then hit ‘Apply’!
More about Wowcher
Founded in 2011, Wowcher is a diverse promotion marketplace that provides customers major savings on local businesses, travel and consumer goods. In addition to this, through their reach they deliver marketing solutions which allow merchants to grow and manage their businesses in a sustainable way.
There’s nothing that excites them more than finding new businesses to partner up with. Whether it’s helping you get more people through the door or facilitating the sale of your goods.
If you can imagine yourself in an environment that you grow in and you embody our values of being Innovative, Passionate, a Team Player, Honest & Open, this could be the place for you.