A brilliant opportunity for a talented Graduate to work as a Product Specialist, joining a market-leading disruptive software technology firm in London. Offering excellent training, career progression and prospects, this is a unique opportunity to work for a rapidly expanding machine learning software house. This is an ideal time to join this growing organisation and be guided by some of the brightest minds in this field. On a daily basis, you will be working closely with the sales team to deliver Proof of Concepts and assist with live customer projects for a machine learning platform.
Location: Central London 3 days in office / 2 days remote
Salary: Competitive + bonus + healthcare, pension, etc.
Requirements for Product Specialist
- A minimum of a 2.1 bachelors from an internationally renowned University in a STEM or Law related discipline
- At least ABB at A-Level or equivalent UCAS points (please ensure A-Level grades are included on your CV)
- Basic scripting knowledge in Python or Bash
- Excellent customer-facing skills
- You have a sales spark - while this role isn’t a focused sales role, this is required due to the nature of the role
- A motivated self-starter with a problem-solving attitude
- Strong aptitude for picking up technologies
- Ability to work with autonomy and as part of a team
- Great communication skills with fluent spoken and written English
- Fluent in Spanish (Business level) would be advantageous
Responsibilities for Product Specialist
- You will be the main point of contact and liaise with clients, internal teams (predominantly the tech team)
- Manage live customer projects from planning to final review
- Provide customer training to new and existing customers
- Deliver workflow advice to customers using the product
- Identify significant new projects
- Basic troubleshooting, and escalation of issues to the tech team
- Gain an in-depth understanding of the companys technology so you can advise customers how to import/export data
- Provide updates to the management team on accounts
What this offers
- Working for an industry-leading software company who have a fantastic track record of successfully hiring and training graduates
- An exciting opportunity supporting projects on a machine learning platform
- A good remuneration and benefits package
Applications
If you and bilingual, have top academics and would like to apply, we would love to hear from you. Please ensure when applying you include your degree classification/GPA and your A Level grades (or UCAS equivalent) on your CV. Please send an up-to-date CV via the relevant link.
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The Role You’ll lead on responding to outages, triaging issues, balancing stakeholder priorities/concerns, and keeping open communication channels. You’ll be responsible for designing, developing, and implementing continuous deployment solutions that help our clients to deliver software faster and more efficiently. You’ll be keen to understand our clients’ ways of working and will have an enthusiasm to learn new tools and technologies as needed. Essential experience We want you to have demonstrable experience in DevOps practices and appreciate that Cloud & Platform Engineering are big topics. Ultimately, we’re looking for talented engineers who can learn modern technologies in the digital space. In the interview, please show your experience in: · Designing, building, and testing software release processes that cover the entire SDLC. · Creating, modifying, and maintaining complex CI/CD pipelines. · Creating dashboards and visualisations for application performance that proactively identify and address potential problems before they occur. · Using automated testing to detect security issues/vulnerabilities in application and/or infrastructure code, thereby detecting issues before it reaches production (aka Shift-Left). · Strong experience in operating and maintaining services primarily in any of the BIG three public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, and GCP). Desirable experience Some other areas of experience that are not essential but still relevant to the role: · Identifying problems using RCA or 5-Whys methods and suggesting solutions to reduce the likelihood of incidents reoccurring. · A strong understanding of cloud networking and security concepts. · Understanding the principles of containerisation, and how to control and orchestrate groups of containers in production environments. · Writing clean, organised, structured and version-controlled code. · Knowledge of at least one scripting language that enables you to perform more complex automation tasks thereby reducing manual toil. · Preference for using CLI tools over relying on web portals. · Understanding SRE (live services) ways of working, that enables you to better increase reliability and availability of the service you support. · Auditing your service for FinOps and SecOps related compliance issues. Must be eligible for UK Security Clearance. If you don’t have all this experience please do still apply, as we can coach you in these areas if you join us.
Ready to automate, innovate and make a real impact?
Do you want to build reliable, scalable systems that make a real difference to millions of people? Do you want to work at a certified B Corp with an inclusive and learning culture as part of a diverse team of great people?
If so, Opencast could be the place for you. We’re a growing tech consultancy that creates user-centred solutions with purpose for our clients in government, healthcare and purpose-driven businesses. Working in DevOps, you’ll build and maintain the systems that let teams respond quickly to needs. You’llwork on high-impact projects, helping to build reliable, scalable systems. We align work to industry-recognised roles such as Build & Release Engineer (BRE), Platform Engineer (PLE) or Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) and, where needed, to more specialised areas such as security, cloud hosting, infrastructure or networking.
What’s life like as a DevOps consultant at Opencast?
At Opencast, we love to keep things simple, and we love automation.
It’s not the same as your standard Devops Consultant job. Depending on your client’s needs, you’ll take on a range of roles. These will include:
- Taking the lead on responding to outages, triaging issues, balancing stakeholder priorities/concerns, and keeping communication channels open with all parties.
- Developing, and implementing continuous deployment solutions that help our clients to deliver software faster and more efficiently.
- Collaborating with our clients to understand their ways of working and will have an enthusiasm to learn new tools and technologies as needed.
- Contributing within Opencast communities.
- Ensure that work is carried out in accordance with Opencast’s quality, environmental, and information security policies and procedures, as well as applicable customer policies, standards, and procedures while working on client.
We care about building things right. We believe in good devops practices and keeping things simple. We want to support you as much as we can on interiorising our approach to devops engineering and you supporting others.
- We are proud consultants who combine our own experience and approach with our company values.
- We are comfortable with new tech. We are empowered, cloud native, vendor agnostic devops engineers. We are empathetic, patient and care about quality.
- We know when to pick our battles and how to manage expectations. We are humble, inclusive team players that listen and collaborate, with zero egos!
- We’re always willing to teach and help others (inside or outside of our team). And we’re always willing to learn.
- It’s a varied job that keeps you super technical and excited.
Salary:
- £50,000 - £60,000
Some of the benefits our offer includes:
- A competitive pension, health cash plan, share options and discretionary bonus.
- Flexible hours and 25 days’ holiday.
- People to support you every step of the way.
Where you’ll work:
- Your working time at Opencast will be split between multiple locations, including from our HQ and hub locations, client site or home. Travel is part of life at Opencast, and takes in account requirements of your work, our clients and your team.
We include you:
- We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all.
Interview:
- Job interviews are on Microsoft Teams. We’ll make any adjustments to help you.