Senior Infrastructure Consultant
You will play a key role in helping clients build and evolve systems that their organizations use to deliver and run software. Our team members combine technical expertise and understanding with consideration of different situational needs. They champion technical quality and effective ways of working as a means to better outcomes for clients, rather than an end in themselves.
Key Responsibilities
* Launch projects through hands-on implementation and evaluate existing infrastructure to drive improvements.
* Explore client needs and collaborate on building a technical roadmap and impactful solution that supports their ambitious business goals.
* Help shape and build Thoughtworks' cloud and infrastructure practice by collaborating with other practitioners, business development, marketing and capabilities development teams.
* Evaluate and implement controls and processes for continuous delivery and evolution of infrastructure and applications, driving automation through all stages of the process.
* Take a proactive role in monitoring and ensuring that technical expectations of deliverables are consistently met on projects.
* Provide expertise and guidance in the areas of DevOps, cloud, platform and infrastructure engineering, both internally and in client sites.
* Establish trusting and thoughtful partnerships with a client's engineering leadership.
* Adjust and suggest innovative solutions to current constraints and business policies.
Technical Skills and Qualifications
* You can contribute to the design and implementation of enterprise and/or web-scale hosting platforms and administer application servers, web servers, and databases.
* You have a deep understanding of cloud and virtualization platforms, infrastructure automation, and application hosting technologies.
* You have experience working with software delivery teams and understand DevOps philosophies, Agile methods, Infrastructure as Code, and how to apply them to your work.
* You have a history of working with at least one IaaS cloud platform and two or more application runtime platforms including physical servers, virtual servers, container clusters, serverless, and databases.
* You can write scripts using at least one scripting language and are comfortable building Linux servers, Windows servers, or container clusters.
* You have experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery tools with different tech stacks.
* You've previously worked with monitoring systems for availability, performance, or security.
* You have an understanding of security concerns, threats, and approaches for dealing with them, including infrastructure platform vulnerabilities, secrets management, network security, and software supply chain security.
* Bonus points if you have experience with unit testing and automated testing tools, stress, and performance testing.
Professional Skills
* You genuinely enjoy interacting with teammates from across the business and have a knack for communicating technical concepts to nontechnical audiences.
* You love creating robust, scalable, flexible, and relevant solutions that help transform businesses and industries.
* You're comfortable partnering directly with infrastructure technicians, support, and network analysts, security analysts, system administrators, and/or IT managers to design technical strategies while simultaneously collaborating with senior IT groups in an advisory capacity.
* You adapt effortlessly to uncertainty, embrace change, and confidently make decisions with limited information to achieve positive outcomes.
Learning & Development
We believe in empowering our employees to grow professionally and personally. Our interactive tools, numerous development programs, and teammates who want to help you grow make us a great place to advance your career.
Commitment to Disability Inclusion
We are committed to being an inclusive and accessible workplace employer of choice for all, including those living with disability.
What's on Offer
We strive to equip you with career-defining experiences, foster a community where you feel you belong, and offer a wide variety of benefits to support your advancement, health, and wellbeing.