Lead Infrastructure Consultant

Summary

Join Thoughtworks as an Infrastructure Developer and help clients build and evolve software delivery and execution systems. Collaborate with diverse teams to create solutions meeting organizational needs, combining technical expertise with situational awareness. Champion technical quality and effective work methods for better client outcomes. Promote agile methodologies and DevOps mindsets. Build technical roadmaps and impactful solutions supporting client business goals, and shape Thoughtworks' cloud and infrastructure practice. Ensure continuous delivery and evolution of infrastructure and applications, driving automation throughout the process. Provide expertise in DevOps, cloud, platform, and infrastructure engineering.

Requirements

• Lead the collaborative design of enterprise and/or web-scale hosting platforms and can administer application servers, web servers and databases
• Have a deep understanding of cloud and virtualization platforms, infrastructure automation and application hosting technologies
• Have experience working with software delivery teams and understand DevOps philosophies, Agile methods, Infrastructure as Code and how to apply them to your work
• Regularly apply DevOps philosophy, Agile methods, Infrastructure as Code to your work and lead infrastructure and operations with these approaches
• Have a history of working with server virtualisation, at least one IaaS cloud platform, and two or more application runtime platforms including physical servers, virtual servers, container clusters, serverless and databases
• Write scripts using at least one scripting language and are comfortable with building one or more of: Linux servers, Windows servers or container clusters, and/or Windows servers systems
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery tools with different tech stacks, web or mobile
• You’ve previously worked with monitoring systems for availability, performance or security, stress and performance testing with observability patterns: Distributed Tracing/OpenTracing, Log Aggregation, Audit Logging, Exception Tracking, Health Check API, Application MetricS, Self-Healing/Multi-Cloud
• 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
• Genuinely enjoy interacting with teammates from across the business and have a knack for communicating technical concepts to nontechnical audiences
• Love creating robust, scalable, flexible and relevant solutions that help transform businesses and industries
• Are comfortable partnering directly with leadership teams (CTO/CIO/COO) to design technical strategies while simultaneously collaborating with senior IT groups in an advisory capacity
• Adapt effortlessly to uncertainty, embrace change and confidently make decisions with limited information to achieve positive outcomes

Responsibilities

• Explore the client’s needs and drive the building of 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 and evolution of infrastructure and applications, driving automation through all stages of the process
• Ensure and build the controls and processes for continuous delivery and evolution of infrastructure and applications, driving automation through all stages of the process
• Take a leading 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 leadership across engineering and commercial functions
• Lead the design and implementation of innovative solutions to current constraints and business policies

Preferred Qualifications

Have experience with unit testing and automated testing tools, stress and performance testing

Benefits

• There is no one-size-fits-all career path at Thoughtworks: however you want to develop your career is entirely up to you
• Your career is supported by interactive tools, numerous development programs and teammates who want to help you grow
• We see value in helping each other be our best and that extends to empowering our employees in their career journeys
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