Lead DevOps Engineer

Pay Range: €50500 - €93500

Location: Vilnius, Lithuania (Hybrid)

Johnson Matthey IT (JM IT) is Johnson Matthey’s global IT function responsible for ensuring that our IT capabilities are not only able to support and integrate technologies but can also offer insight into future IT tools that could provide us with a competitive edge and improved operating efficiencies. 

As a Lead DevOps Engineer, you’ll play a critical role in designing, implementing, and maintaining cloud infrastructure solutions. Your focus will be on automation, scalability, and supporting the developer community. This position combines technical proficiency with leadership and collaboration to optimise software performance and streamline operations.

Your responsibilities:

• Architect, implement, and automate infrastructure deployment using ARM/Bicep templates, Terraform, Ansible, Python, Bash or other relevant tools and scripting languages.
• Create and manage CI/CD pipelines for seamless software delivery.
• Ensure infrastructure as code (IaC) principles are followed for consistent and repeatable deployments.
• Monitor and maintain Azure/Cloud resources, including virtual machines, databases, storage, and networking components.
• Implement robust backup and disaster recovery strategies.
• Experience of working with Agile delivery principles and use of tools such as Jira.
• Automate routine tasks (e.g., environment setup, database migrations, scaling) to enhance developer productivity.
• Document and promote reusable templates, scripts, and configurations for efficient infrastructure management.
• Implement robust security controls, including identity and access management (IAM), encryption, and network security measures.
• Act as mentor for the Engineering function, providing guidance on Azure/cloud and DevOps best practices.
  
  
  

Requirements for the role:

• Experience of Architecting, implementing, and automating infrastructure on Microsoft Azure Cloud Platform.
• Experience with infrastructure scripting solutions such as PowerShell, Python and Terraform.
• Experience administering and deploying development CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions, GitLab, or Jenkins. We use GitHub and GitHub Actions.
• Experience with Linux and Windows systems, Docker, virtual environments.
• You’ll have used a range of services available in Azure, and integrated this in an enterprise environment, including services such as Azure B2C and FunctionApps. Building serverless digital products.
• Strong leadership experience and proven ability to manage both in house and 3rd Party technical engineering teams.
• Identifying opportunities and taking action to build strategic relationships between one's areas, teams, departments, units to help achieve business goals.
• Detail oriented with strong analytical & technical knowledge.
  
  
  

How you will be rewarded:

Salary range for this position is from 50,500 to 93,500 EUR per year depending on various factors, such as candidate’s qualifications, skills, and competencies. This role is also eligible to receive discretionary annual bonus that align with individual and company performance.

Other rewards and benefits include the following:

• Health & Well-being: a diverse, inclusive, work & life balance work environment; hybrid way of working; health insurance from the first day of employment; employee assistance program.
• Great career growth and development opportunities in a global organization Life, accidents & critical diseases insurance
• IIIrd Pillar Pension Fund contributions.
• Paid volunteering opportunities (2 days per year)
  
  
  

At JM, an inclusive culture is integral to our values and ambitions for the future. We are committed to ensuring that everyone can bring their full self to work and thrive in their career. Welcoming everyone to JM, regardless of their unique characteristics, experiences or thoughts allows us to bring many different voices and experiences together to tackle the world's biggest challenges. Being truly inclusive means that all colleagues feel valued for their differences, views and contributions, and feel a sense of belonging at JM.

Johnson Matthey, a FTSE 250 organisation, is a global leader in sustainable technologies specialising in catalysis, precious metal products, chemicals and process technology.  With operations in over 30 countries, we employ more than 12,600 people. We have more 200 years of success behind us; be part of the next stage of our growth journey and help maintain our reputation as one of the most admired organisations in our field. Our unique culture and people give us competitive advantage and will ensure our success for years to come. You can be part of that success story.

Johnson Matthey is open for discussion on part-time, job share and flexible working patterns.

How to apply:

If you have the necessary skills and experience to join our team, please apply online. For any queries or should you require any reasonable adjustments to support your application please let your recruiter know when they contact you.

If you are already a Johnson Matthey Employee, please visit the internal careers site to apply: Find Jobs - Workday (myworkday.com)

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