Job Details
My client is a leading global consultancy who partner with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology. It is a responsible and diverse organization with over 200,000 team members in more than 60 countries. My client is trusted to address the entire breadth of business needs, from strategy and design to operations, fuelled by the fast evolving and innovative world of cloud, data, AI, connectivity, software, digital engineering and platforms.
The DevOps architects work in diverse multi-disciplinary teams, hand-in-glove with their clients. The DevOps architects play a pivotal role in realising clients’ business outcomes. They are at the forefront of maximising automation for lean software development. They are unbounded thinkers and doers. They reimagine enterprises’ entire operating models recognising the capacity for DevOps to transform business capabilities beyond the software delivery function.
What You’ll Bring to the Digital Architecture Team:
The focus of your role, as a lead DevOps architect, will be two-fold. You will have the capability to support agile delivery teams to maximise the benefits of software automation, defining development architectures and supporting DevOps adoption. Lead DevOps architects also set the agenda for clients’ evolution of their entire operating models in pursuit of becoming the agile enterprise.
As part of your role you will also have the opportunity to contribute to the business and your own personal growth, through activities that form part of the following categories:
• Business Development – Leading/contributing to proposals, RFPs, bids, proposition development, client pitch contribution, client hosting at events.
• Internal contribution – Campaign development, internal think-tanks, whitepapers, practice development (operations, recruitment, team events & activities), offering development.
• Learning & development – Training to support your career development and the skills demand within the company, certifications etc. You will:
• Define compelling visions for DevOps and how, through it, Digital Delivery achieves transformational results in the enterprise’s mission
• Define development environment architectures
• Select appropriate DevOps automation tooling for the context
• Advise and guide implementation and integration of DevOps toolchain
• Participate in defining delivery operating models and development methods
• Contribute to establishing an Agile delivery culture and the place of DevOps within it
• Maintain familiarity with emerging and leading practices and tooling
• Communicate with both business and IT teams at all levels to ensure alignment and either change the solution or pivot when necessary
• Utilise data-driven decision making and build appropriate recommendations for your client
• Be responsible for developing our business, carrying a personal sales target of £1m
• Develop our next generation of digital architects through formal line management and informal mentoring, coaching and learning development
About You
To be part of this team, you will have a mixture of the following experience: Selection, architecture definition, implementation and use of:
• Experience of DevOps on leading cloud platforms such as Azure, GCP, AWS, Oracle Cloud
Automated CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, TeamCity, GitLab CI etc.
• Infrastructure automation and provisioning tooling such as Terraform
• Compliance and security in CI/CD
• Orchestration and creation of containers such as Kubernetes, Docker Swarm
• Productivity, knowledge and collaboration tooling
• Digital delivery/development target operating models, including orientation to the enterprise’s value motivation and value outcome
• Establishment of new ways of working, achieving cultural change and winning hearts and minds
• Software development, testing, configuration management
• Agile delivery methods and ceremonies
• Business and investment case development
• Proactive client proposal development
My client is unique they don’t just believe in diversity & inclusion, they actively go out to making it a working reality. Driven by their core values they build environments where you can bring you whole self to work. They aim to build an environment where employees can enjoy a positive work-life balance.
