Deputy Director _ Global DevOps CoE Technical

About the role

You will be the engineering lead and people manager for a small team of 2–3 backend/automation engineers, responsible for the architecture, delivery, and ongoing operation of the CoE's internal tooling. You design the backend systems, set up and manage the hosting infrastructure, mentor your engineers, and ensure the team ships reliably against a clear roadmap.

What you'll do

• Backend Architecture & Engineering Design the backend architecture for all internal CoE applications — API layer, data models, scheduler/worker patterns, storage
• Write and review production-quality code in Python (primary) and/or Go or similar — the team's tooling stack, not prototype scripts
• Establish engineering standards: code structure, testing approach, review process, dependency management, and deployment patterns that your team follows consistently
• Lead the migration of legacy scripts into structured, maintainable services — proper error handling, logging, retry logic
• Integrate with DevOps platform APIs (Azure DevOps REST, GitHub API, webhook events) to power automation and data pipelines

What you need

• 12–14 yrs of experience
• Terraform
• CI/CD
• Docker
• Kubernetes
• Azure
• Python
• Any graduate

Good to have

• Git
• ETL
• Go