DevOps Team Lead

Company Description
Take a seat on the Xplor rocketship and join us as a DevOps Team Lead from anywhere in New Zealand, to help people succeed across the world.

Job Description**
About the opportunity**

You’ll join our Fitness & Wellbeing vertical where we’ve recently brought together our Boutique Wellness and Health & Fitness business to form a single, global vertical that serves clients around the globe in key markets like the US, Canada, UK, Europe, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. We have market-leading software products like Mariana Tek, TrueCoach, Clubware, Resamania and PerfectMind as well as Commerce Accelerating Technologies like Connect (Brandbot) and Insights (Intelli-hub) that are designed to help our clients manage and grow their business.

Reporting into the Director, Software Engineering you’ll will be responsible for ensuring sound and mature DevOps practices are applied throughout the entire Software Delivery Lifecycle i.e. Planning; Coding; Building; Testing; Deploying; Releasing; Monitoring and Supporting. With emphasis being placed on reducing toil in every step through tooling and automation, providing high alignment through integration, providing high autonomy through enablement and a deep understanding of performance through observability.

Key Concepts and Responsibilities cover:

- Agile Software Development - a thorough understanding of agile methodologies and workflows is important.
- Spec-first Design - being part of the design phase to address operational, security and monitoring impacts and needs ahead of time.
- Developer Experience - understanding development lifecycle pain points and advising on how we can address them is key.
- Multi-tenanted System
- Micro-services Architecture - understanding how to effectively design, build, configure, deploy, test, and monitor distributed systems where components can be released independently and confidently.
- Event-driven Architecture
- Relational and Non-Relational Data
- Trunk-based Development
- Continuous Integration, Delivery and Deployment
- GitOps
- Infrastructure as Code
- Configuration Management
- Observability
- Incident Response Management
- Security

Qualifications**
- Worked on improving the developer experience through Code Listing and Styling, Event Schema Registries, ChatOps through Slack and SonarQube
- Back-End experience working in an AWS environment and using the following: API Gateway, Lambda Functions, S3, DynamoDB, RDS (Aurora PostgreSQL), Snowflake, Eventbridge, Kinesis, SQS, SNS, CloudFront, IAM, WAF, Guardduty, SecurityHub, Config, EKS, Helm
- Understanding of the following languages and frameworks: Python (Poetry), Jinja, Typescript (Node.js and React), Monorepos (Lerna, Yarn Workspaces), Mocha, Jest, Pytest
- Worked with GitLab (or similar) setting up pipelines
- Using Terraform, Serverless framework and AWS CloudFormatiom to create Infrastructure as Code
- Achieving observability through ElasticSearch, Kibana, Logstash and Sentry.io
- Proven skills in solving business problems.
- Excellent communication (written and verbal) and collaboration skills
- Prior team leadership role
- Ability to work with and influence stakeholders to complete agreed tasks
- Ability to deliver solutions and artifacts within given timeframes and available resources
- Confident in giving technical advice, mentoring, and coaching
- In-deep analytical skills and the ability to see the connections between layers of a business are connected and how business processes achieve their goals
- You’re a true team player who knows that we all have to sometimes roll up our sleeves
- You align with our four core values and you’re simply a good human

Additional Information**
What does it mean to work for Xplor?**

Our four core values - Make life simple, Build for people, Move with purpose and Create lasting communities - are key to who we are and guide us from how we hire to how we recognise our team members.

Some of the perks of working with us:

- Unparalleled opportunities to learn and accelerated career development
- A collaborative, team environment with people who truly love what they do
- 12 weeks Gender Neutral Paid Parental Leave for both primary and secondary carer
- Unlimited access to Udemy for Business, 10% of your time devoted to growing you and your career, and further support to help you grow
- Access to mental health support
- Fully flexible work arrangements
- Health & Life Insurance
- A free weekly barista coffee
- Free fruit
**More about us**

We’ve recently expanded our reach by merging the two software and payments powerhouses TSG and Clearent. The resulting company is Xplor Technologies serving over 82,000 businesses that processed over $27 billion in payments, operating across 158 countries in 2020.

Xplor is headquartered in the United States in Atlanta, GA, with operations across North America, Australasia, Europe, and the United Kingdom. We now have over 2,000 Xplorers, working across five “everyd