ParentPay Group is Europe s leading software product company and the UK s largest education technology business. We are on a mission to bring next-generation innovation to positively impact on the lives of millions of parents, teachers, and students every day in over 49 countries.
Our market leading products use cutting edge cloud-based technology to streamline school processes, including secure web and mobile apps that enable secure online payments for school items such as meals, trips, clubs and uniform, improve parental engagement, simplify meal management and - through our product SIMS - collect and manage a database of student information and core school operations.
ParentPay Group s new offices in Pune are a fantastic tech hub for those looking to boost their careers in software product development.
Our bright team FastTrack their career with international exposure and ways of working based on agile development best practices from globally renowned technology consultancies.
Provide technical leadership within a matrix management function whereby you will have dotted (indirect) line reporting of the DevOps engineers. In practice this means that you will have responsibility and authority for the technical remit of the DevOps engineers but not have line management responsibilities freeing you up to focus on adding value within the technical domain as an individual contributor.
Be hands-on using a wide range of Microsoft Azure technologies such as Azure Kubernetes Service, Azure Key Vault, Azure Service Bus etc In addition, project management in an agile scrum format, source control (git), build and deployment are handled within Azure DevOps. Finally our platform is build as infrastructure as code using Terraform.
Evaluate the technical landscape taking ownership and accountability of the cloud infrastructure and CI/CD pipelines ensuring standards are set and maintained in line with the Head of Architecture and Regional Architects.
Responsibility for ensuring that cost to serve is accounted for with all designs proposed and retroactively evaluating existing infrastructure.
Hands on with developing new processes where they do not exist and continuously improving current processes.
Ensure Security, High Availability, Disaster Recovery, and all current best practices.
Ensure Alerting and Monitoring of the current Infrastructure.
Propose solutions for automation for build, test and deploy of Infra components and ensure that they are followe'd.
Actively participate in architectural governance forums such as centre of excellence (CoE) and technical guilds. Furthermore, ensure that decisions made are followe'd through within the teams.
Work collaboratively with the Group Director of Architecture, Head of Architecture, and fellow architects to influence and steer technical leads as we'll as their teams towards pragmatic decisions as we'll as communicate team progress.
Undertake R&D, prototype new approaches, technologies, techniques and ensure knowledge sharing to streams.
