About us:
Amach is an industry-leading technology driven company with headquarters located in Dublin and remote teams in UK and Europe.
Our blended teams of local and nearshore talent are optimised to deliver high quality and collaborative solutions.
Established in 2013, we specialise in cloud migration and development, digital transformation including agile software development, DevOps, automation, data and machine learning…
We are seeking a Technical Lead to join our team, who will oversee a cross-functional engineering team responsible for both operational support and feature delivery, with a focus on platform self-sufficiency, resilience, and seamless partner migration.
The role combines technical leadership with hands-on development, making it ideal for candidates who have a strong background in cloud engineering, particularly AWS and Terraform, as well as experience with APIs, operational resilience, and team leadership.
The successful candidate must be able to attend the office in London twice a week.
Required skills:
- 3+ years leading engineering teams, ideally in a cloud-first or DevOps environment.
- Strong knowledge of AWS services, Terraform and modern Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Practices.
- Experience with Java, Spring Framework, Microservices and Rest APIs.
- Proficiency with API management and gateway tools like Kong or Mashery.
- Knowledge of data management and analytics within a cloud ecosystem.
- Skilled in proactive monitoring, incident response and alerting mechanisms, with familiarity in tools like PagerDuty.
- Proven ability to allocate resources effectively, balance operational and delivery priorities, and manage on-call duties.
- Strong problem-solving abilities, especially under pressure during incident response situations.
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, able to collaborate effectively with remote and cross-functional teams.
Key responsibilities & duties include:
Team Leadership and Development
- Lead and mentor a team of 4-5 engineers, fostering a collaborative and proactive work environment.
- Work closely with the Product Manager and other stakeholders to align on team goals and priorities.
- Guide the team in building and maintaining a robust incident response approach and operational best practices.
- Define and implement a technical roadmap, establishing priorities for feature enhancement, resilience improvements and operational efficiencies.
Product Development and Operational Support
- Oversee the development and delivery of new features and functionalities, ensuring quality and alignment with product strategy.
- Proactively identify opportunities to improve platform self-sufficiency and reduce operational overhead.
- Act as an escalation point and contribute to on-call support for critical incidents, ensuring swift and effective resolution.
- Manage and support partner migration to Kong from legacy systems, with a focus on high availability and data integrity.
Technical Strategy and Continuous Improvement
- Develop and maintain a roadmap for the technical direction of the product, prioritising scalability, resilience, and user satisfaction.
- Drive initiatives to improve system performance, security, and reliability.
- Collaborate with other engineering leads to share knowledge, promote best practices, and align on organizational goals.
Desirable skills:
- AWS Certification
What’s in it for you:
- An opportunity to join a fast-growing company
- Options for career advancement
- Learning and development opportunities
- Flexible working environment
- Competitive rates based on experience
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At Amach, we strive to be an inclusive community of open-minded individuals with different backgrounds and we are committed to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of diversity, equity and inclusion. We strongly believe that a diversity of experience and background is essential to create a fulfilling environment and better solutions for our people and our customers. All Amach employees and contractors are expected to honour this policy and act to ensure that every individual is respected in the workplace.
Your personal data
Amach will process your personal information in accordance with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We will comply with data protection law and principles, which means that your data will be:
- Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way
- Collected only for valid purposes and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes
- Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes
- Accurate and kept up to date
- Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about
- Kept securely
If you would like to contact us about your data, please use the following address: [email protected]
What We Do
We help mature organisations evolve into modern digital businesses with faster time to market, increased operational stability and security.
We offer a suite of technical services delivered by an experienced team of subject matter experts. Our services can be provided as a fully managed service or as an embedded part of your team. We focus on both short-term and long-term goals that emphasise business outcomes for our customers.
Why choose Amach:
1. Business Agility - We focus on removing your IT debt, so that your company can focus on delivering business value to your customers at pace in a secure and reliable manner.
2. Cost Reduction - We help reduce your IT costs across all domains. This includes operational costs in both cloud and your data centres, licencing, evergreening, and reducing project delivery timelines.
3. Operational Stability - We will modernise your IT systems ensuring operational stability and resilience, to ensure the end user experience for both customers and staff are enhanced.
4. Enable Innovation - By removing IT debt, we create space for your team to focus on innovation, ensuring business longevity and futureproofing. We bring both sector experience and lessons learned.
5. Security - We address the overall architecture to ensure security by convention vs configuration. We promote DevSecOps practices, so security isn’t seen to prevent teams from delivery in an efficient manner.
6. Improve Employee Experience - We create and implement your EUX strategy that adapts to a changing world, while improving security and user efficiency - resulting in improved colleague satisfaction and retention.
7. Sustainability - Achieve your sustainability goals through optimising your overall IT footprint and reducing costs.
We thrive on delivering customer value in every interaction.
If you are interested in hearing more or to see how we could help you, please get in touch [email protected]
