Remote Lead Infrastructure Consultant (GCP)

Summary

Join Thoughtworks and thrive. Together, our extra curiosity, innovation, passion and dedication overcomes ordinary.

Requirements

• Can lead the collaborative design of enterprise and/or web-scale hosting platforms
• 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 virtualisations, at least one IaaS cloud platform, and two or more application runtime platforms including physical servers, virtual servers, container clusters, serverless and databases
• Can write scripts using at least one scripting language
• Are comfortable with building one or more of: Linux servers, Windows servers or container clusters, and/or Windows servers systems
• Have experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery tools with different tech stacks, web or mobile
• Have 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
• 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

• Have knowledge of Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• 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
• 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