We're looking for someone with a firm grasp on and passion for current Dev Ops principles and testing best practices to join as Platform Lead in the ASOS technology team, to own and enhance the ASOS Tech Path to Live.  You’ll be working with Principal Engineers, Engineering teams and your peers to ensure that we have a path to live to meet the testing needs of all of our engineering teams, and you’ll have specific ownership of our large integrated environments.  You’ll report into the Head of Reliability Engineering, responsible for ensuring the reliability of our tech as our business grows and scales.

Your goals will be: to reduce deployment friction / time to release; to drive and support earlier testing within engineering teams thereby reducing the dependency on large scale environments; to reduce the risk of change related incidents through the driving of improvements in maturity of testing within engineering teams.

You will establish and evangelise guiding principles and ensure that we continually evolve and mature, while maintaining environment availability and relevance.

You will work closely with your teams, ensuring they have the support they need to continually improve the reliability of the integrated test environments, reduce infrastructure costs and enable delivery team velocity.

What you'll be doing:

• Liaising with key stakeholders to understand the needs of Engineering and Operations teams in relation to the path to live, creating new relationships and understanding where Reliability Engineering can help improve reliability and velocity.
• Creating and owning a roadmap with clear milestones and dependencies, and working with your teams and other dependencies to align on delivery against those milestones.
• Being the recognised authority for all things path to live through effective communication and engagement.
• Leading your teams seeking to bring out the best in all team members (both permanent and third party), aligning their responsibilities with their strengths and career goals, seeking high engagement, performance and retention.
• Managing third party engagements, ensuring we have the right mix of permanent and third-party engineers in each area.
• Improving the availability and quality of the path to live environments and ensuring that test coverage continues to remain relevant, in line with business and technical changes.
• Managing environment costs through visibility and identification of cost optimization opportunities.
• Working with programmes and platforms to understand their testing requirements and collaborating on test strategies to ensure that testing happens early, continuously and is owned at the right level.

Who we'd like to meet:

A credible influencer with a strong background leadership, agile ways of working and Dev Ops, testing and environment management, with experience of the following:

• Working in a large and complex Tech department with a variety of technologies and ways of working.
• Working with multiple and varied stakeholders, balancing complex and competing needs.
• Leading both internal and external teams and working with a combination of onshore/offshore/nearshore and remote working teams.
• Experience working with Azure or equivalent vendors
• Strong financial/budget management experience

What's in it for you?

We will give you a competitive salary, bonus scheme, staff discount, sample sales and pension matching but also a fantastic bunch of flexible benefits that focus on your health, wealth & inner self for you and your friends and family. 

We are all equal!

We’re committed to creating an inclusive workforce.  We believe in a world where you have the freedom to explore and express yourself without judgement, no matter who you are or where you’re from. Where you value yourself and feel proud of who you are. Where individuality is a source of confidence, because difference makes the world a better place.