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Lead Jira Administrator

Want to do the best work of your life? With 24 million customers in 7 countries, make your mark at Europe’s leading media and entertainment brand. A workplace where you can proudly be yourself; our people make Sky a truly exciting and inclusive place to work.

This is a phenomenal opportunity to join the Cloud Platforms Engineering team that provides simple, zero-friction, self-service access to on-premises and public cloud services for development teams all across Sky. You’ll join a hardworking, ambitious, forwarding-think and diverse team where the focus is on building modern, scalable automated platforms with security and reliability built in.

What you’ll do:

– Help shape and evolve centralised core collaboration tools including JIRA and Confluence.

– Contribute and help deliver a standard DevOps software delivery pipeline to promote the use of cloud technologies, increase developer velocity and early integration of security toolsets into Sky’s software lifecycle.

– Champion a “shift left” attitude to deliver a library of automated, self-service capabilities that empower developers across all areas of Sky’s business.

– Evangelise the use of Agile software delivery tools and processes, sharing knowledge and standard methodology.

– Enhance and extend the DevOps relationships with multiple teams across Sky technology, learning more about their requirements, future strategy in order to determine how to best serve their needs proactively.

– Evaluate industry cutting edge tools and techniques for CI/CD to ensure our platform delivers the best possible experience to the userbase whilst remaining operationally efficient at scale.

What you’ll bring:

– Extensive knowledge and experience of working with large JIRA and Confluence environments.

– Proven track record of automation using modern software development tools and techniques.

– Desire to help, educate and influence business partners to adopt standard working models based on best practice.

– Familiarity with enterprise incident, problem, change and release management.

– Capability to define and integrate CI/CD processes and technologies including source code management (GitHub / GitLab), orchestration pipelines (Jenkins / Concourse), automated testing, secrets management (Vault) and code-driven deployment to a variety of cloud platforms (Terraform / Ansible / Helm)

– Knowledge and proficient use of cloud technologies including IaaS (vSphere), CaaS (Kubernetes) and PaaS (Cloud Foundry).

– Passion for emerging open source technologies and solving challenges.

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Team Overview
UK Tech:
Our team focuses on technology strategy, design and delivery. From AI to 5G to Cloud, we work on the latest tech whilst building out our web presence and CRM systems for fixed and mobile networks. We’re bold, proactive, forward-thinking and collaborative. Together, we’re proud of the products and services we deliver for our customers.

The Rewards:
There’s a reason people can’t stop talking about #LifeAtSky. Our great range of rewards really are something special, here are just a few:
– Sky Q, for the TV you love all in one place
– A generous pension package
– Private healthcare
– Discounted mobile and broadband

Where you’ll work:
Livingston Watermark House:

Our lively campus is a free shuttle bus away from Livingston North train station and the town centre. Plus there’s onsite parking available for cars, motorbikes and bicycles.

You’ll be well fed at our subsidised canteen, and you can keep in shape at our onsite gym. Or play a game of pool or table tennis.

Inclusion:
Recognised as an ‘Inclusive Top 50 Employer’ and a ‘Times Top 50 Employer for Women’, we’re working hard to ensure we’re a truly inclusive place to work. This means we don’t just look at your CV. We’re more focused on who you are and the potential you’ll bring to Sky. We also know that everyone has a life outside work, So we’re open to discussing where and when you do your job, as long as we can balance your needs with those of our customers.

And we’ll do everything we can to support you during your application. If you need us to make any adjustments to our recruitment process, speak to our recruitment team who will be happy to support you.

Why wait?

Apply now to build an amazing career and be part of a brilliant team. We can’t wait to hear from you.

To find out more about working with us, search #LifeAtSky on social media. A job you love to talk about.

Just so you know: if your application is successful, we’ll ask you to complete a criminal record check. And depending on the role you have applied for and the nature of any convictions you may have, we might have to withdraw the offer.

#LI-Tech

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