DevOps Team Lead

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The Company

Sotic is a leading provider of websites and online applications to professional sports teams and organisations. We deliver a high-availability infrastructure, supporting websites and services for large sporting events that attract over 60,000 unique visitors a minute during peak times. Our goal is to stay at the forefront of digital technology and we are in the process of migrating our infrastructure to a cloud-based solution.

Sotic prides itself on its culture of flexibility and self-management. Our conscientious, self-motivated and committed workforce enjoys flexible working and an atmosphere of reciprocal support.

The Role

Demonstrating excellent communication, people management and mentoring skills, you will be leading the team responsible for the day-to-day management of Sotic's hosting, content management and internal systems platforms. This is a hands-on role where you will also be working closely with software engineers to design, build, configure, deploy and support our clients devices infrastructure to make sure their systems are secure, robust and reliable.

You role will be to:

- Efficiently prioritise, schedule and manage the Platform team’s day to day workload

- Communicate and collaborate effectively with managers and other teams

- Report weekly to the Head of Digital Operations

- Ensure your team communicate clearly via tickets, emails, chat and calls

- Meet weekly with the Development and Build teams to share and collaborate

- Be available outside of normal working hours to deal with urgent system errors

We expect you to have experience in:

- Maintaining AWS or other cloud-based services

- Maintaining and deploying LAMP stack, supporting WordPress

- High Availability (load-balancing, clustering) setups

- ECS or other container orchestration systems