About the role
The University of Cambridge is seeking a hands-on Tech Lead and Engineer Manager to lead a team of engineers building new cloud-native services and modernising existing applications. You will combine technical leadership (including hands-on with people management, setting technical direction while growing your team.
This is a hybrid position based in Cambridge, with amazing benefits, like a defined benefit pension and 41 days of annual leave inclusive of public holidays.
Many of our services are public-facing, supporting ~60,000 University members, so your team's work directly affects the reputation of one of the world's leading universities.
We build using modern web architectural standards emphasising APIs, automation, and CI/CD, maintain a DevOps culture, and are "open by default". Our stack includes Google Cloud, Terraform, GitLab, Python, Django, React, and TypeScript. See our projects in GitLab at https://gitlab.developers.cam.ac.uk/uis/devops and our practices in our Guidebook at https://guidebook.devops.uis.cam.ac.uk/.
What we're looking for
You will be an experienced engineering leader, highly skilled in modern software development, testing, security, and operations, and an expert in:
- Architecting secure-by-design web applications and APIs with a focus on maintainability and stability, using clean code.
- Integrating applications via APIs, event buses, and / or asynchronous tasks.
- Packaging applications in Docker and building CI/CD pipelines in GitLab to deploy to Google Cloud using Terraform.
- Running services in production: reliability, observability, and incident response against clear SLOs.
- Applying testing best practices and conducting thorough code reviews.
- Using AI coding assistants effectively, writing clear prompts, critically reviewing AI-generated code, and taking responsibility for its correctness, security, and maintainability.
- Adopting AI strategically and securely across your team and services, setting good practice for its safe use.
- Managing technical and delivery risk, including threat modelling, data protection, and compliance.
- Driving improvements in architecture, standards, and processes, balancing new delivery against technical debt, and choosing whether to switch off, extend, build, or buy.
Ways of working:
- Stay hands-on, contributing high-quality production code, designs, and reviews, and leading by example, while balancing this with your management responsibilities.
- Communicate clearly and collaborate with colleagues and users to gather and break down requirements.
- Focus on delivery, and drive work to completion, while continuously improving existing services.
- Learn new skills proactively.
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