Automation and Analytics Team Lead

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Package Description

Job Reference: 21720
Band: D
Salary: Up to £72,000 depending on relevant skills, knowledge and experience.
Contract type: Permanent role
Location: Office Base is London. This is a hybrid role and the successful candidate will balance office working with home working.

Job Introduction

The BBC Digital Distribution Team look after the Server and Storage platforms that many BBC internal and external workloads run on. It has many IaaS platforms, which are evolving to offer on-prem Cloud-like services.

Main Responsibilities

As an Automation and Analytics Team Lead, you will:

1. Work independently and provide technical and architectural leadership to a team of Automation Infrastructure Engineers, Developers and Analysts.
2. Automate the provisioning, deployment, scaling and monitoring of the on-prem BBC IaaS virtualisation platform.
3. Develop libraries and scripts to automate manual tasks and operations.
4. Create analytics dashboards, monitors and reports.
5. Collaborate with various teams to identify and implement automation solutions.
6. Produce and maintain the Automation Service framework.
7. Continuously improve existing automation capabilities.
8. Assist the IaaS Infrastructure team in providing Infrastructure as Code solutions.
9. Design and develop automation processes in various programming languages.
10. Maintain and create Automation and Analytics Team documentation.
11. Work closely with infrastructure, operations and development teams to resolve platform issues.

Are you the right candidate?

You will be an experienced team lead within technical operations or systems engineering with demonstrable experience in producing solutions for Automation, Analytics, Reporting, Development, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), and DevOps.

We would like to hear from you if you have some of the below additional skills/experience:

1. Systems Administration, Security, Deployment, Management and Patching on RHEL / Ubuntu / CentOS.
2. Containers - RHEL OpenShift / Docker / Kubernetes Implementation.
3. Infrastructure - VMware ESXI / vCenter / NSX, Nutanix.
4. Automation - Ansible / Terraform.
5. Development - Python, PowerShell, Yaml, Java, etc.
6. CI/CD and IoC - Terraform, Packer, Jenkins, Git.
7. Analytics / Dashboards / Reports - VMware Aria vRealise Operations, Grafana, Tableau.

About the BBC

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