**_Lead DevOps Consultant|Professional Services| CTO Labs_**
- CTO labs is a market-leading M&A and technology solutions consultancy. We help investors buy high performing tech businesses and manage their portfolio risk on tech-focused business investments. We also help our customers modernise their tech environment through digital enhancement, product development and software engineering.- We are a group of dynamic technology advisors that bring rare insight into leading edge software development. We offer technical delivery services, helping to build intuitive platforms and resolve business delivery blockers. We keep our knowledge and skills sharp to provide pragmatic advice to our clients and 'slice and dice' tech to be understood and acted on with confidence.- As we grow, we iterate and improve our methods to create clear, commercially savvy tech advice that our clients can rely on, with no need for additional 'tech to business' translation.**Lead DevOps Consultant - Professional Services**
- Our Professional Services team works with investors, founders, technology and products teams to implement continuous improvements and iteratively improve tech performance. We have a new product line launching to the market which we are very excited about - Secure SDLC. This role will be one of the champions of this product lineup (amongst other things). We are looking for someone to offer solid Thought Leadership to the business, attending client meetings in a pre-sales capacity, helping mature our offerings and leading our teams with Security Delivery.-
Key Responsibilities
**A little bit about you..all of below is essential;**
- You bring strong consulting experience, working in business and technology environments
- You are an expert in the DevOps area and have deep technical experience across Kubernetes (ideally Certified Kubernetes Administrator) and Cloud Native Architecture
- You have 8 years+ hands on experience in DevOps and supporting tooling (see list below)
- You need to have solid containerisation experience including in depth EKS and ECS.
- You need solid RDS (database services in AWS) and IAM (Identity and Access Management) experience
- You have experience as a Platform Technical Product Owner - having held a key Leadership role, driving a product. You will be the Evangelist of this platform internally with our client teams.
- You are the platform evangelist obsessed about the Platform's adoption. You like to combine your solid technical skills with your outstanding consulting skills to help client teams understand the benefits of the platform and a frictionless path to implementing it.
- You have solid experience delivering in Agile environments
- You love leading, growing and uplifting teams of passionate, like minded DevOps specialists.
- You have a passion for and solid DevOps experience experience within fast paced Digital environments
- You love to workshop with clients and present brown bag sessions
- Your go to objective is uplift over augmentation
- Awareness of DORA metrics
- Awareness of Trunk based development and TDD (Test Driven Development) would be valued
- You love to work across multiple streams in a fast paced, dynamic, and collaborative environment.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills and stakeholder management experience with an ability to translate security and technical information into clear business language
**Technical skills - MUST HAVE's (as well as AWS skills above)**
- Terraform
- Helm
- Github Actions
- Either technologies below or similar would be desirable to have;- Hashicorp Vault
- Tekton
- ArgoCD
- Headless Container Builds (Kaniko, Buildah)
- Golang Kubernetes Operators
- Dynatrace
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
**Why join us..**
- We are a team of passionate professionals that love new challenges. Think hyper scale growth, combined with tech and business strategy, and we're there! Not to give our point of difference away, but our secret sauce is our people (oops, gave it away!) We love working together, either in person or through our virtual Gather Town office - plants, pets and go karts optional. All in all, we're a diverse group of individuals that come together collaboratively on client and internal projects.**Benefits**:
**Benefits**
- Work with the greatest talent in town. Our recruiting process is tough. We hold a high bar because we have a high-performing, high-velocity culture - we only want the brightest and the best.
- Join a community. We believe the best things happen when we come together to solve complex problems and make meaningful connections with each other through interest groups, sports clubs, and social events.
- Get the best of both worlds with a hybrid workplace. We firmly believe that we are better together - in-person interaction is an important part of our culture.
About CTO Labs
CTO labs is a market-leading M&A and technology solutions consultancy. We help investors buy high performing tech businesse