Team Lead Cloud Engineering

The 155-year-old startup is now settling in the cloud, and we need your help.

DFDS is heavily accelerating our cloud journey for existing IT infrastructure and application landscape. To achieve this, we are building a ‘Cloud Factory’ organization to lay down infrastructure, build a self-service portal and a containerization team to migrate existing applications. The purpose of the Cloud Engineering team at DFDS is simultaneously to provide a stable and secure cloud platform and to merge the ongoing evolution of cloud-native software and infrastructure design with DFDS’ needs. We are looking for a person with the drive and desire to build a modern and open platform team.

DFDS has worked with Cloud and Kubernetes the past 5 years, slowly transforming DFDS’ Software Development capability but now we need to make a step change.

We have a team of SRE’s and Cloud Engineers, and we need a hands-on team lead that can guide and lead the team on a daily basis. This includes line management of 10 people and career and competence building for the team members. You will lead our team of Cloud Engineers and SREs - developing an efficient infrastructure supporting container workloads and our self-service developer platform.

The team has two major tracks, aligned to categories of competences:

1. Supporting and developing the Cloud infrastructure, typically SRE-like competences.
2. Building the developer-oriented cloud platform as a product to reduce cognitive load, typically Cloud engineering-like competences.

However, this is not set in stone, and this is a unique opportunity to be part of a strategically critical lift in Cloud capabilities within DFDS. Things are moving fast, and we need a steady hand to guide us securely forward in our cloud journey and how we take our software delivery capabilities to the next level.

Main responsibilities

As the Team Lead of the Cloud Engineering, you will spearhead the adoption of cloud in DFDS by

i) building and defining the Cloud infrastructure

ii) empowering developers to consume Cloud resources easily and safely

We have a senior SRE lead handling the day-to-day management of work for the SREs so you will need to lead the developer resources, building the self-service platform and ensure the overall alignment and direction. In addition, the role has the line management responsibility for the whole team (Developer resources, SREs and SRE Lead).

It is a huge but highly rewarding challenge of strategic importance for DFDS.

You will:

• Align work across the two streams
• Together with the cloud architect, define and implement new cloud projects
• Engage with our customers, the development and business teams, to help understand their requirements, and guide them with best practices and architectural advice
• Help drive co-creation projects with other teams in DFDS for mutually beneficial new platform features
• Develop team competences and guide individual career building
• Be willing to contribute with hands-on development as needed for PoCs etc.
• Engage, coordinate, and collaborate activities within and across agile teams
• Participate and co-drive an outwardly engaged Cloud Engineering group