Overview
Leads a cross-cutting capability that equips Agile product squads with DevOps engineering and quality assurance expertise. Defines and enforces standard practices, toolchains, and metrics for Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery, test automation, release & environment management, and observability.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead the DevOps and QA Competency Centre.
- Define role profiles, career paths, mentoring and training plans.
- Ensure adequate staffing of squads with DevOps engineers and QA specialists.
- Embed DevOps and QA professionals in product squads.
- Define and maintain the DevOps strategy, standards, and reference toolchains.
- Design, operate, and continuously improve reusable CI/CD pipelines, environments, and deployment patterns.
- Define QA policies, test strategies, and quality gates.
- Integrate security-by-design into pipelines and testing.
- Own quality gates for releases and coordinate with Product Managers, Platform/Operations, and Change Advisory bodies.
- Define and publish delivery and quality KPIs.
Required Experience
- Minimum of 8 years’ experience in the area in question and proven experience in management.
- Proven experience in team management and technical leadership.
- Experience in planning, development and managing complex tasks with minimum supervision.
- Proven experience in DevOps, Software Engineering and Quality Assurance.
- Hands-on experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines and test automation at scale.
- Sound background in Agile product delivery and collaboration within cross-functional squads.
Qualifications
At least five years’ University education.
