Consultant Infrastructure Developer (DevOps)

About the role

Infrastructure Developers take a multifaceted approach to helping clients achieve technical excellence by assessing challenges from both a technical and operational perspective. As consummate ‘bringers of knowledge,' they take extra care to ensure their team and client understand operational requirements and take a shared responsibility for designing and implementing infrastructure that delivers and runs software services. They also help customers adopt a DevOps mindset, breaking away from rigid, more traditional ways of working and pivoting to a more customer-focused and agile approach.

Job responsibilities

- You will launch projects through hands-on implementation, evaluate and drive improvements to existing infrastructure

- You will listen to a client's needs and formulate a technical roadmap and impactful solution that will support their ambitious business goals

- Help shape and build Thoughtworks' cloud and infrastructure practice through collaboration with business development, marketing and capabilities development teams

- Ensure and build the controls and processes for continuous delivery of applications, considering all stages of the process and its automations

- Monitor and ensure that technical expectations of deliverables are consistently met on projects

- Act as a thought leader—at client sites and at Thoughtworks—on DevOps, cloud and infrastructure engineering

- Establish trusting and thoughtful partnerships with a client's CIO, CTO and relevant teams

- Adjust and suggest innovative solutions to current constraints and business policies

Job qualifications

Technical Skills

- You can design and architect enterprise and/or web-scale hosting platforms and can seamlessly administer application servers, web servers and databases

- You have a deep understanding of cloud and virtualization platforms, infrastructure automation and application hosting technologies

- You understand DevOps philosophy, Agile methods, Infrastructure as Code to your work and lead infrastructure and operations with these approaches

- You have a history working with server virtualisation, IaaS and PaaS cloud, Infrastructure provisioning and configuration management tools

- You can write scripts using at least one scripting language and are comfortable with building Linux and/or Windows servers systems

- Experience with continuous integration tools with different tech stacks, web or mobile

- You've previously worked with monitoring systems for stress and performance testing with Observability Pattern: Distributed Tracing/ OpenTracing, Log Aggregation, Audit Logging, Exception Tracking, Health Check API, Application MetricS, Self-Healing/Multi-Cloud

- Bonus points if you have experience with unit testing and automated testing tools

Professional Skills

- You genuinely enjoy interacting with teammates from across the business and have a knack for communicating technical concepts to nontechnical audiences