Due to the nature of the client engagements, every employee needs to be able to achieve Security Clearance.

This means that you need to have the right to take up employment within the UK, do not have or require any visa to work, and have been resident in the UK for at least 5 years without any gap(s) totalling more than 6 months.

As an employer we believe in facilitating a flexible work pattern whilst taking into consideration operational requirements,  client and individual needs. We are proud of our hybrid work pattern that typically sees employees in the office for a minimum of 2 days per week. 

You should be able to easily commute to our Manchester office.  For some roles/projects, travel to the clients offices will be required and the frequency is often determined by the client.

Diversity, equity and inclusion are integral to the success of 6point6. We welcome applicants with different perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds, and are proud to have an organisational culture where employees can bring their authentic selves to work.

Key responsibilities in this role include:

• Define and implement DevOps strategies and best practices to optimise processes and systems

• Perform line management duties to a team of up to 5 engineers

• Be involved in setting DevOps department standards and technical direction, creating training materials and running “brown bag” training sessions for the wider team

• Support and Train junior colleagues under your line management, within your projects, and the wider DevOps department

• Lead and manage diverse DevOps and development projects, ensuring timely and successful delivery

• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code technical solutions (as an example, via kube/helm & terraform)

• Contribute to writing and reviewing code according to project needs and designs

• Apply DevOps best practices of automation, TDD and tooling to CI/CD pipelines 

• Design, Develop and manage cloud infrastructure and data platforms to ensure scalability and reliability

• Work as in a cross-discipline agile development team (managed via Scrum Agile processes)

It would also be great if you can bring in the following skills as an optional extra:

• Software development as part of a cross-disciplined team (Java)

• Scrum master qualifications or experience, help project management by running standups and other agile ceremonies