Platform Engineering & DevOps Chapter Lead

Job Description

Job Title: Platform Engineering & DevOps Chapter Lead
Location: Vodafone, Dublin, Ireland /Hybrid
Reporting To: Digital Engineering Lead /IT Director

Role Overview

We are seeking an experienced Digital Platform Engineering & DevOps Lead to drive our engineering capability, manage cross-functional teams, and embed best practices across our digital platforms. This role combines people leadership, technical expertise, and strategic direction, with responsibility for leading software engineers, DevOps engineers, Platform Product Owner, and Delivery Lead.

The successful candidate will shape the future of our microservices and API ecosystem, build engineering excellence aligned to TM Forum Open API guidelines, and ensure scalable, reliable, and secure digital platforms for the business while leading CI/CD strategies.

Key Responsibilities

Team Leadership & Chapter Development

• Lead and mentor a team of software engineers, DevOps engineers, Product Owner, and Delivery Lead.
• Foster a culture of continuous learning, professional growth, and knowledge sharing across the digital engineering chapter.
• Shape career development paths and provide coaching for engineers to help them flourish in their roles.
• Collaborate with senior leadership (Head of Digital Engineering, IT Director) to align engineering strategy with business objectives.

Engineering & DevOps Delivery

• Own the design, development, and delivery of microservices and APIs, ensuring scalability, performance, and alignment with TM Forum Open API standards.
• Oversee the implementation and maturity of DevOps practices including CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure-as-code, cloud environments, observability, and site reliability.
• Ensure security, compliance, and performance standards are embedded into engineering practices.
• Guide architectural decisions in collaboration with architects and senior engineers to ensure modern, scalable digital platforms.

Collaboration & Ways of Working

• Work closely with the platform Product Owner, Architects, DevOps engineers, and Delivery Lead to ensure product roadmaps are delivered effectively and efficiently.
• Act as a bridge between business and technology, ensuring engineering output aligns with customer and business needs.
• Establish and track engineering KPIs and DevOps metrics (e.g., deployment frequency, MTTR, release stability) to drive performance improvements.

Skills & Experience

• Proven experience as an Engineering Lead, Chapter Lead, DevOps Manager, or Software Engineering Manager.
• Strong background in microservices architecture, API development, and cloud-native engineering.
• Knowledge of TM Forum guidelines (Open APIs, SID, etc.) is a strong advantage.
• Hands-on expertise in modern DevOps practices (CI/CD, automation, infrastructure-as-code, observability).
• Familiarity with DevOps toolchains (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Argo CD).
• Understanding of cloud environments (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Strong coaching, mentoring, and people leadership skills, with proven success in developing engineering talent.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scaled Agile environment.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management, with the ability to influence at senior levels.

What We Offer

• A leadership role with influence across engineering, DevOps, and digital delivery.
• Opportunity to shape the microservices & API ecosystem of a growing digital business.
• A culture focused on innovation, learning, and career development.
• Competitive salary and benefits package.
• Hybrid/remote flexibility.

When choosing us……….

When you join the Vodafone Team, you will have the chance to grow your career while also experiencing some serious benefits!

Some of the benefits that you will receive along the way are:

• Competitive Salary
• Flexible working (times and location) is part of our culture where your hours can facilitate your personal work-life balance
• Generous Employer Pension contribution
• Free Phone Bill – When you join the team, your phone bill is on us! You will also receive mobile phone purchasing discounts
• Learning and Development – We provide extensive training to all of our employees so they can progress in their careers! There is also the Vodafone University where our employees can gain incredible skills!
• Exclusive Family and Friends Discounts – Receive additional discounts for you, your Family and Friends on Vodafone Products!
• 23 days annual leave and 3 charity days off – PLUS a dedicated day off for your birthday
• Access to our Wellness centre including free access to our Gym, health and wellness centre and external practitioners

We are passionate about our employees! Here at Vodafone we want you to bring your whole self to work and we enable this with our progressive workplace policies. We are proud supporters of the LGBTQ+ community and Vodafone is committed to support all of their employees at work. We are an equal opportunities employers where our people can be at their best.

When you combine Technology and the human spirit, anything is possible. And when you join Vodafone, we’ll help you shape a rewarding career that gives back in more ways than one. Its starts here. It starts with you.

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