Senior Infrastructure Consultant

Summary

Join Thoughtworks as an Infrastructure Developer and help clients build and evolve their software delivery systems. You will work collaboratively with diverse teams to design, implement, and improve infrastructure, leveraging your expertise in cloud platforms, DevOps, and automation. You will contribute to Thoughtworks' cloud and infrastructure practice, ensuring high-quality deliverables and continuous delivery. You will partner with clients' engineering leadership, providing guidance and innovative solutions. This role requires strong technical skills in cloud platforms, infrastructure automation, and scripting, as well as excellent communication and collaboration skills. Thoughtworks offers a supportive learning and development environment.

Requirements

• Contribute to the design and implementation of enterprise and/or web-scale hosting platforms and 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
• 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
• Write scripts using at least one scripting language and are comfortable building one or more of: Linux servers, Windows servers, or container clusters
• Have experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery tools with different tech stacks
• Have previously worked with monitoring systems for availability, performance or security
• 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
• Be 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
• Adapt effortlessly to uncertainty, embrace change, and confidently make decisions with limited information to achieve positive outcomes

Responsibilities

• Work within teams to launch projects through hands-on implementation, evaluate existing infrastructure and drive improvements
• Explore the client’s needs and collaborate on building 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 other practitioners, 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 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

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. But we also balance autonomy with the strength of our cultivation culture. This means 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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