[Hiring] Lead, Software Development, DevOps @Hootsuite

Role Description

We’re looking for a DevOps team lead who is accountable for the execution and delivery of a team of SRE/DevOps practitioners. You understand the importance of a DevOps mindset and have experience partnering with product development stakeholders to design and deliver a reliable, scalable, secure, and performant platform. This role is envisaged to be 50% technical and hands-on, 50% people leadership, process, and project management. Based out of Canada, in Provinces we can legally hire in, you will report to the Senior Manager, Software Development, DevOps.

What You’ll Do:

• Enable development teams to:
• Provide executable interfaces to our infrastructure platform
• Provide tools and best practices to support the entire software development lifecycle
• Manage the reliability, security, and integrity of our large, cloud-based Linux infrastructure:
• Diagnose and repair distributed systems
• Implement runbooks, monitoring, and alerts
• Build, maintain, and improve infrastructure with infrastructure-as-code
• Lead/collaborate with team members and others across the organization to solve technical problems and build better systems and software
• Partner with direct team members as well as those cross-functionally within the department through mentoring, leading meetings and sharing work/best practices/ideas
• Implement continuous improvement efforts into the development of our team culture, processes and vision
• Use tools/methodologies like Agile to manage team projects and toils
• Participate in a flexible on-call rotation

Qualifications

• A degree in Computer Science or Engineering
• At least 5 years of experience in an SRE, DevOps or software engineering role
• A track record of substantial contributions to software projects with high business impact
• Experience using infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g. Terraform or Ansible) to build and run cloud infrastructure
• Strong background in cloud infrastructure design and operations

Requirements

• You are a leader and an influencer, overseeing broad solutions and clarifying complex problems
• You propose and champion improvements in processes and technology choices
• You make your team and your teammates better
• Collaboration and Teamwork: works with others to deliver results, prioritizing group needs over individual needs
• Creativity and Innovation: seek new and better ways of doing things
• Resilience, Tolerance for Change/Ambiguity: can effectively cope with change
• Builds inclusive, cohesive teams which apply diversity to achieve common goals
• Capably delivers results through others, establishing clear direction
• Identifies key issues and relationships relevant to achieving a long-range goal or vision
• Challenges and supports others to create results and develop new capabilities

Benefits

• Accommodations will be provided as requested by candidates taking part in all aspects of the selection process

Company Description

• Canada Pay Range For This Role: $115,000 — $160,000 CAD
• Hootsuite uses artificial intelligence (AI) to support our recruitment process
• All final hiring decisions are made by human decision-makers