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Qodea

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Enterprise • SaaS • B2B

Qodea is a leading cloud technology partner specializing in Google Cloud solutions. With over 15 years of experience and more than 300 experts, Qodea helps businesses unlock the full potential of Google's cloud technology to drive digital transformation and achieve real-world success. As Europe's largest dedicated Google Cloud partner, Qodea supports major brands in harnessing cloud technology, ensuring seamless transitions, and maximizing business value. The company offers comprehensive services in infrastructure modernisation, data activation, AI integration, and security, tailoring solutions to meet UK and EU regulatory requirements.

201 - 500 employees

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

🤝 B2B

📋 Description

• Provide technical guidance and mentorship to platform engineers, fostering innovation and continuous improvement. • Identify growth opportunities for the team aligned with talent, interests, and business needs. • Ensure appropriate skillsets and capacity are allocated to tasks and deliverables. • Manage workload allocation to balance project work with training, upskilling, and leave. • Actively support team recruitment when applicable. • Lead the performance review process for team members in line with company strategy. • Effectively manage team capacity and workload allocation, ensuring optimal deployment of skillsets to tasks, while strategically balancing project deliverables with dedicated time for training, upskilling, and leave. • Manage day-to-day people management activities (leave, on-call, sickness, overtime, ROTA, timesheets, 1:1s). • Serve as a trusted advisor to both internal stakeholders and external customers, understanding their technical challenges and providing expert guidance and solutions utilising GCP technologies, patterns, and best practices. • Represent the team in relevant internal and external forums. • Identify the long-term impact of designs, advise stakeholders of risks, and suggest secure solutions or involve relevant internal stakeholders. • Provide valuable input to Management regarding capacity planning, allocation to new contracts, and team upskilling needs. • Support management with the assessment of new incoming contracts and scope of work for the team. • Proactively pursue decision-making processes to drive team success, including cost analysis based on time management. • Partner with support teams to facilitate shift-left activities. • Propose and/or develop improvements for overall internal tooling. • Keep abreast of technology developments to ensure Qodea remains ahead of the technology curve. • Represent Qodea in external engagements with Google and the wider tech community (e.g., technical writing, presenting at events).

🎯 Requirements

• What You’ll Need to Succeed • - Previous experience in a leadership-type role • - Capacity for strategic thinking and contributing to long-term technical roadmaps • - A strategic approach to problem-solving, anticipating future challenges and opportunities • - The ability to thrive on a high level of autonomy and responsibility • - Clear and persuasive writing and in-person communication • - Ability to navigate and resolve team conflicts constructively. • - Proven ability to effectively delegate tasks and empower team members. • - Strong interpersonal skills with an empathetic approach to team management. • - You’re proactive and you like to solve problems. You want to get involved and make things happen, ensuring the best outcomes for your team, the business and our customers • - Curiosity relating to technology and bringing together the two areas, people management and technology. • - Understanding of platform engineering, delivery and infrastructure automation • - Understanding of Docker and Kubernetes in production environments, and an understanding of container orchestration and management. • - Good awareness of infrastructure as code (IaC) and tools like Terraform, comfortable with configuration management tooling such as Puppet, Chef, Ansible, or Salt. • - Good level of understanding of Linux operating systems (e.g., Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS) with experience in some systems administration and troubleshooting • - Experience with continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) tools, such as Jenkins, ArgoCD, or similar pipelines, with a focus on automation and reliability • - Knowledge of modern internet protocols and patterns, including but not limited to gRPC, GraphQL, REST APIs, and related tools. • - Proven experience in a cloud-focused delivery role (DevOps or Software Development)

🏖️ Benefits

• **Financial:** • - Competitive base salary. • - Discretionary company bonus scheme. • - Employee referral scheme • - Meal Vouchers • **Health & Wellbeing:** • - Health Care Package • - Life and Health Insurance • - Bookster • **Time Off & Flexibility: ** • - 28 days of annual leave • - Floating bank holidays • - An extra paid day off on your birthday. • - Ten paid learning days per year. • - Flexible working hours • - Sabbatical leave (after 5 years). • - Work from anywhere (up to 3 weeks per year). • **Development & Recognition: ** • - Industry-recognised training & certifications. • - Bonusly: employee recognition and rewards platform. • - Clear opportunities for career development. • - Length of Service Awards. • **Extra Perks:** • - Regular company events.