DevOps Consultant

Responsibilities:

• Demonstrates an in-depth understanding of Software Development Lifecycle and how it integrates within the overall technology landscape to deliver scalable, reliable and resilient applications.
• Ability to operate in a global environment with on-/near-/off-shore matrix reporting structures.
• Operates into a highly regulated environment that requires in-depth understanding of the regulatory requirements and the industry implications for our technologies.
• Improve the service level the team provides to our end users, which includes maximizing operational efficiencies, strengthening incident management, problem management and knowledge sharing practices.
• Drives Continuous Delivery and Automation efforts across the supported applications by means of Root Cause Analysis reviews, Knowledge management, Performance tuning, and user training.

• Fosters a culture that promotes transparency and innovation for increased team productivity.
• Coaching members of the team and outside the immediate reporting line about the best practices and recognises anti-patterns that are quickly addressed.
• Implements the Agile Framework through one of its implementations like SCRUM or Kanban and ensures it integrates with overall organisation processes.
• Avidly communicates progress and project status across the organisation and ensures that stakeholders are managed appropriately throughout the execution period.

Qualifications:

• Relevant experience in a critical software development role with high business impact, ability to understand how software delivers business value
• Excellent engineering skills and senior architecture
• Excellent working knowledge of key computer science concepts (networking, operating systems, virtualisation, containerisation, etc.)
• Polyglot full-stack developer mentality and ability to pick up new languages and skills
• Excellent understanding of Software Engineering concepts like Software Development Life Cycle and GitOps
• Excellent debugging and analytical skills: ability to isolate root cause across networking/infrastructure, application and database stacks
• Operational experience of deploying and running services at scale on top of Docker/Kubernetes stack and a service mesh, like Istio, is highly desirable
• Operational experience with orchestration tools for CI/CD and Infrastructure-as-Code tooling (Terraform, Cloud Formation, etc.) is a highly desirable
• Experience of delivering software using Agile delivery methodologies is a must (SCRUM/Kanban)
• Operational experience of using middleware technologies (MQ, Apache Kafka, etc.) to run services at scale is desirable
• Strong experience with end-to-end observability stacks (Datadog, AppDynamics, Dynatrace, etc.) is desirable
• Degree in computer science/mathematics/physics or related technical subject is desirable
• Experience of senior stakeholder management
  • Consistently demonstrates clear and concise written and verbal communication skills