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Automation Logic
Senior DevOps Consulting Engineer
£70k
- £95k
London
In office
Description
Key Duties & Responsibilities:
You are a team member on projects with the remit to deliver successful outcomes for our clients by demonstrating capability in the following areas.
Consulting Behaviours
You regularly interact with client stakeholders on behalf of the team
You take ownership of your own deliverables and you are aware of how your own work contributes to the outcomes of the whole team
You can challenge constructively and appropriately, both externally and internally
You demonstrate good task estimation skills to meet deadlines
You manage expectations and commit to a realistic amount of work
You understand priority and urgency of tasks
You escalate blockers and delays in a timely manner
Commercial mindset
You take a client-centric approach and develop a deep understanding of what the client is trying to achieve, so as to deliver relevant, impactful outcomes and ROI
You can describe the impact of your work in commercial terms and use this understanding to drive client-engagement
You have solid stakeholder management, troubleshooting and conflict resolution skills to support successful outcomes
Leadership
You use data and methodical self-review to make project decisions, contribute to OKRs, and to improve your own capability
You proactively offer support and coach / mentor more junior colleagues
You actively seek to contribute towards AL Mission, Vision, Goals and OKRs
Contribute in other areas of the business such as
Interviewing and recruitment processes
Supporting the bid processes with written content on your specialist knowledge
Knowledge-sharing and contributing to AL repositories
Essential Skills & Experience
You can work independently and deliver quality and consistent outcomes for our clients in the majority of the following areas.
Agile methodologies
Good understanding of Agile methodologies such as Lean, Scrum or Kanban
Awareness of concepts and benefits of iterative-based development, prototyping and MVP
DevOps and the SRE Principles
Advocate and explain why DevOps and the SRE principles can help businesses to achieve their goals and deliver value
Explain how a high-trust and collaborative culture and a focus on Continuous Improvement is a key to customers success
Understand importance of Observability and how tracking of DORA metrics to continually assess DevOps maturity of an organisation
Understand how feedback loops contribute to effectiveness of Value Delivery Stream
Public Cloud
Configuring or automating large scale environments in one or more of AWS, Azure or GCP
Programming
Creating well architected, styled, maintainable and readable code.
Knowledge and working experience of TDD/BDD (unit testing)
Experience with Object-orientated or functional programming
Awareness and experience with implementation of testing throughout the multiple levels of the Test Pyramid
Desired Skills & Experience
Containerisation - the majority of the following;
Experience of containerizing legacy workloads using Docker
Working experience with orchestration platforms running Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker Swarm or Nomad
Awareness or experience with PaaS container services such as AKS, EKS or ECS
Deploying and managing workloads such as microservices on container orchestration platforms
Aware of security principles and best practices involved in operating platforms and the workloads including service meshes such as Consul or Istio
CI/CD
You are able to discuss the benefits of Continuous Deployment and Continuous Delivery and why you should deliver small and frequent releases
You know and understand the importance of artifact versioning, promotion and deployment strategies
You are aware of the tooling in the CI/CD space such as Azure DevOps, AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins
Infrastructure as Code (IAC)
Knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code concepts and ability to implement using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK or ARM templates
Aware of Compliance-as-Code and associated tools
Security
Understand the need for security to be embedded at each stage of the value delivery process
Enable and understand the need for automated compliance
Understand the importance, concepts and the tooling around the threat analysis and security testing such as SAST, DAST, IAST, and RASP
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Automation Logic
Senior DevOps Consulting Engineer
£70k - £95k
London
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