Senior DevOps Consulting Engineer

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

Nice to have:

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