Development Operations Team Leader
| Posting date: | 06 June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | £48148-57422 per annum |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 22 June 2025 |
| Location: | Sheffield, S10 2TN |
| Company: | University of Sheffield |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 887-43439874 |
Summary
University of Sheffield
Job Reference Number:
887
Working Pattern:
Full time, 35 hours
Faculty:
Professional Services
School:
IT Services
Closing Date:
22 June 2025
We are looking for a talented technical leader to head up our DevOps Team and lead the growth of the team and our continued growth into the cloud space.
Our main focus for the future is:
● Build more services in AWS and increase our automation for server setup and code deployments
● Improve resilience in the design of our services and hosting to deal with more recent challenges and threats to our services
● Put in place good practice to help developers with designing and hosting systems
You will have experience of designing and running resilient web systems on Linux, AWS and Terraform. You will use this experience to provide support to developers across the department.
You will design and maintain the hosting for a number of critical systems including our single sign-on infrastructure and integration tooling and manage the hosting of all systems run by the team so they are resilient and performant enough for our 40,000+ staff and student users.
As an experienced leader, you will employ appropriate techniques within a close-knit team to get the best from them, making use of their skills and expertise and ensuring high standards of work across the team.
What We Offer
The University of Sheffield is a remarkable place to work. Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Their diverse backgrounds, abilities and beliefs make Sheffield a world-class university.
We offer a fantastic range of benefits including a highly competitive annual leave entitlement (with the ability to purchase more), a generous pensions scheme, flexible working opportunities,a commitment to your development and wellbeing, a wide range of retail discounts, and much more.
Find out more at www.sheffield.ac.uk/benefits and join us to become part of something special.
We are committed to exploring flexible working opportunities which benefit the individual and University.
We build teams of people from different heritages and lifestyles from across the world, whose talent and contributions complement each other to greatest effect. We believe diversity in all its forms delivers greater impact through research, teaching and student experience.
Job Reference Number:
887
Working Pattern:
Full time, 35 hours
Faculty:
Professional Services
School:
IT Services
Closing Date:
22 June 2025
We are looking for a talented technical leader to head up our DevOps Team and lead the growth of the team and our continued growth into the cloud space.
Our main focus for the future is:
● Build more services in AWS and increase our automation for server setup and code deployments
● Improve resilience in the design of our services and hosting to deal with more recent challenges and threats to our services
● Put in place good practice to help developers with designing and hosting systems
You will have experience of designing and running resilient web systems on Linux, AWS and Terraform. You will use this experience to provide support to developers across the department.
You will design and maintain the hosting for a number of critical systems including our single sign-on infrastructure and integration tooling and manage the hosting of all systems run by the team so they are resilient and performant enough for our 40,000+ staff and student users.
As an experienced leader, you will employ appropriate techniques within a close-knit team to get the best from them, making use of their skills and expertise and ensuring high standards of work across the team.
What We Offer
The University of Sheffield is a remarkable place to work. Our people are at the heart of everything we do. Their diverse backgrounds, abilities and beliefs make Sheffield a world-class university.
We offer a fantastic range of benefits including a highly competitive annual leave entitlement (with the ability to purchase more), a generous pensions scheme, flexible working opportunities,a commitment to your development and wellbeing, a wide range of retail discounts, and much more.
Find out more at www.sheffield.ac.uk/benefits and join us to become part of something special.
We are committed to exploring flexible working opportunities which benefit the individual and University.
We build teams of people from different heritages and lifestyles from across the world, whose talent and contributions complement each other to greatest effect. We believe diversity in all its forms delivers greater impact through research, teaching and student experience.