Livestock Information Ltd
Agriculture • Science • Technology
Livestock Information Ltd. is a service provider dedicated to enhancing livestock traceability and management in agriculture. Collaborating with government and industry stakeholders, the company utilizes data analytics and technology to improve disease control, productivity, and innovation across multiple livestock species in England. Their mission is to establish world-leading standards in livestock data management, benefiting farmers and the economy.
51 - 200 employees
Founded 2019
🌾 Agriculture
🔬 Science
Head of DevSecOps – Fixed Term Contract
Job not on LinkedIn
October 27
Livestock Information Ltd
Agriculture • Science • Technology
Livestock Information Ltd. is a service provider dedicated to enhancing livestock traceability and management in agriculture. Collaborating with government and industry stakeholders, the company utilizes data analytics and technology to improve disease control, productivity, and innovation across multiple livestock species in England. Their mission is to establish world-leading standards in livestock data management, benefiting farmers and the economy.
51 - 200 employees
Founded 2019
🌾 Agriculture
🔬 Science
📋 Description
• Defining, championing, and executing the company’s DevOps and cloud roadmap, ensuring alignment with business objectives emphasising system optimisation and pioneering innovation. • Leading, mentoring, and nurturing a high-performing team of DevOps, Identity and Integration Engineers, fostering a culture of ownership, collaboration, continuous improvement, and technical excellence. • Overseeing the design, implementation, and optimisation of our secure, scalable, and cost-efficient infrastructure. Driving the adoption services and ensuring compliance to all Disaster Recovery Plans. • Instilling and enforcing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) principles. Continuously improving and automating our CI/CD pipelines to enable fast, reliable, and frequent software releases. • Establishing and tracking key reliability metrics (SLAs). Overseeing monitoring, logging, alerting, incident response, disaster recovery, and capacity planning to maintain the availability, performance, and security of live services. • Supporting new business initiatives and service improvements implementing both Waterfall and Agile methodologies, utilising Azure DevOps for comprehensive backlog management, pipeline integration, and Test Plans. • Integrating security best practices into the entire software development lifecycle (SDLC). Ensuring compliance with relevant industry standards (e.g., GDPR, ISO 27001, SOC 2) critical for an enterprise SaaS company dealing with sensitive client data. • Managing cloud spending effectively, identifying and implementing cost-saving measures without compromising performance or reliability. • Actively seeking out opportunities for enhancement and engaging in collaboration across Service teams to support the Service Continuous Service Improvement Programme. This initiative is dedicated to elevating service performance, reducing operational costs, minimising technical debt, and bolstering security measures.
🎯 Requirements
• Proven IT Operations Leadership: Demonstrable experience in managing complex IT operations, with a strong emphasis on cloud services and support management. • Expertise in Cloud Technologies: Extensive hands-on experience with Azure and M365, from architecture, design, build and test, release to service management. • Operational Excellence: A track record of enhancing IT service delivery, managing change portfolios, and upholding IT security protocols and build standards. • Strategic Vision: Adept at translating IT capabilities into strategic business advantages. • Stakeholder Engagement: Skilled at building strong relationships and influencing effectively across organisational boundaries to foster collaboration. • Line management experience: Experienced in leading internal teams and managing contract service providers, including Azure DevSecOps engineers, service architects, full-stack software engineers, test engineers, delivery managers, scrum masters, and business analysts. • Commitment to Excellence: Dedicated to driving innovation, embedding best practices, and upholding the highest standards of compliance and security.
🏖️ Benefits
• A fully remote and flexible working set up • 25 days annual leave, increasing by 1 day each year of service up to maximum of 30 days (plus Bank Holidays) • 1 Privilege Day • 4 x annual salary Life Assurance • Market leading pension scheme through Legal & General • Enhanced Family Friendly Policies • Excellent learning, training, and career development opportunities • 24/7 access to our Employee Assistance Programme • A diverse and inclusive culture where everyone is respected and valued
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