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JOB TITLE DevOps Lead DATE

BUSINESS

UNIT Innovation & Strategy JOB BAND 6

DEPARTMENT Tracr LOCATION London

REPORTING STRUCTURE

REPORTS TO (TITLE) Technical Integration & Support Director

MANAGER ONCE REMOVED

(TITLE) SVP Digital Transformation

DIRECT REPORTS TBC

KEY PEER RELATIONSHIPS Engineering leads, Technical product owners, Integration and Support

team, Analytics team lead, Blockchain lead

EXTERNAL RELATIONSHIPS TBC

CONTEXT

Tracr™ is an integrated digital industry platform which supports De Beers’ aim to pioneer a new diamond world.

Tracr utilises cutting edge machine learning and blockchain technologies to provide end to end traceability of

diamonds across the value chain, illuminating the origin and journey of each diamond from mine to retailer.

JOB SUMMARY (Purpose)

Reporting to the Technical Integration and Support Director, the DevOps Lead is a core role within Tracr’s

Engineering department responsible for Tracr’s cloud infrastructure to support the tracr platform across its internal and

external participants.

The devops lead will be responsible for designing and delivering reliable enterprise grade distributed infrastructure

that meets best practice standards in terms of availability, scalability, security, maintainability, flexibility, ease of

upgrade and deployment.

The devops lead will be an experienced expert in all aspects of cloud infrastructure and will demonstrate a successful

track record of team leading large scale implementation and support in a business critical enterprise environment.

LEVEL OF WORK (Optional)

The Devops Lead will be a lead role within the Tracr engineering team, responsible for key infrastructure design

decisions and roadmap to support Tracr vision, goals and roadmap. The Devops Lead will operate at expert team

leader level, involved in some level of implementation together with oversight of internal and external devops

resources as needed.

KEY WORK OUTPUTS AND ACCOUNTABILITIES

● Design and delivery of Tracr Cloud infrastructure meeting key requirements for:

o Performance, flexibility and scalability as required to meet Tracr’s delivery ambitions at

industry scale

o Conformance with the highest levels of resilience, security, high availability and disaster

recovery across all aspects of the Tracr platform

o Best practice in architectural design such as AWS Well Architected Principles

o Portability, for example ability to migrate to multiple cloud environments Continuous software

deployment according to best practice for CI/CD in an agile environment

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o Direction of internal devops resources and oversight of outsource providers

● Maintaining outstanding service levels in terms of provisioning, service monitoring and issue resolution

in support of the integration and support team.

QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE, SKILLS / KNOWLEDGE

QUALIFICATIO

NS

● Bachelor Degree or 10+ years of professional or military experience

EXPERIENCE

Required

● 8+ years of experience as a technical specialist.

● 2+ years of hands-on experience of programming in languages such as Python, Ruby,

Go, Swift, Java, .Net, C++ or similar object-oriented language.

● Experience with architecting and automating cloud native technologies, deploying

applications, and provisioning infrastructure.

● Hands-on experience with Terraform.

● Experience architecting cloud native CI/CD workflows in GitLab.

● Hands-on experience with microservices and distributed application architecture, such as

containers, Kubernetes, and/or serverless technology.

● Experience with the full software development lifecycle and delivery using Agile

practices.

Highly Desirable

● Knowledge of IP networking, VPN's, DNS, load balancing and firewall.

● Experience with monitoring and log aggregating frameworks such as Prometheus,

ElasticSearch, and Kibana.

● Experience implementing and designing cloud native security concepts, DevSecOps

or MLOps.

● AWS Certification(s) such as Solutions Architect Pro, DevOps Engineer Pro,

SysOps Admin, Developer Associate.

● Strong presentation, verbal communication and written communication skills.

● Ability to lead effectively across organizations and engagements, preferably from a

professional services organization or similar.

SKILLS /

KNOWLEDGE

Personal qualities and leadership

● Highly self-motivated individual, capable of leading internal and external teams

● Analytical approach, with ability to design and implement all parts of the Tracr

infrastructure in line with current best practice

● Able to reliably plan and deliver technical work in cooperation with engineering

teams and technical product teams.

● Able to lead and motivate teams and mentor others

● Strong personal values, integrity, commitment to goals and vision

ORGANISATION CHART

SVP Digital Transformation

Technical Integtation &

Support Director

DevOps Lead

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