Senior DevOps Consultant

Networking People Limited ,
London, Greater London

Overview

Our client, a DevOps consulting firm have a new exciting position for a DevOps Consultant to join their presales team. This will be the first Delivery Engineer to join a hyper growth DevOps and CI/CD consulting business that aims to be the 1 CI/CD and DevOps consulting practice in Europe. They will be aggressively partnering with GitLab and GCP to help large multinational organisations to. You will be responsible for spreading knowledge, ideas and applied implementation skills needed to improve software delivery and runtime performance. You will be responsible for ensuring that the customer understands the delivery requirements and takes a collaborative approach for the entire Software Development Lifecycle. This includes active involvement in building software delivery and testing pipelines along with automated provisioning of infrastructure. In addition to technical skills, you will also be a crucial mentor for teams through their Agile/DevOps journey. Responsibilities: Assist clients in building and adopting software delivery tools to accelerate their DevOps growth Make recommendations for improvements to existing architecture Be a servant leader by providing technical guidance, DevOps mentorship and bridging silos between teams Help the company to grow their consulting business. Make recommendations for improvements to existing architecture Help implement new technologies in development for future deployment Provide technical guidance, knowledge transfers and mentorship to peers as required Help implement and improve development CI/CD software pipeline Experience: 3 - 5 years of experience in configuring and managing software/infrastructure deployments General understanding of DevOps / CI/CD principles and Agile Development processes Strong mentorship and presentation skills, comfortable working directly with customers/clients High attention to detail and able to solve complex challenges Experience working with server virtualization, IaaS, PaaS and cloud environments In-depth understanding of DevOps principles, practices and tools Experience with containerization, orchestration, monitoring and metric technologies Robust knowledge of CI/CD pipelines Strong mentorship and presentation skills, comfortable working with clients Proficiency in managing Linux and Windows systems High attention to detail and able to solve complex challenges Experience with deployment automation and orchestration Familiarity with Git or other version control systems Interest in Agile, Extreme Programming, Lean and Kanban Ability to context-switch between multiple projects, codebases and concepts with ease Strong problem-solving skills Ability to context-switch between multiple projects, codebases, and concepts with ease Experience with deployment automation and orchestration Ability and desire to bridge silos and bring different teams together while working towards a common goal Techicial Experience / Qualifications: Extensive experience with CI/CD principles, practices, and tools Familiarity with Git or other version control systems (GItlab GitHub, Jenkins, Team City) Programming languages (Python, YAML, Java, JIRA) 3 years of experience in configuring and managing infrastructure Proficiency in building and managing Linux and/or Windows Systems Experience working with server virtualization, IaaS, PaaS, and cloud environments (Azure, GCP or AWS. But a preference for Google. Google Cloud Architect, Google Cloud DevOps Engineer) Certified Kubernetes Administrator CKA (Cloud Native Computing Foundations) Strong understanding of networking fundamentals (IP, TCP, UDP, load balancing, etc.) Experience with scripting languages Infrastructure automation (Puppet, Chef, Ansible, Terraform) About NP Group NP Group is an award winning international recruitment organisation focused on solving the challenges both clients and candidates face, in a different way. Specialising in technology, NP Group partner with some of the most recognised, innovative and inspiring business across the globe. NP Group's Strategic Workforce Resourcing, Talent Solutions and Executive Search business units use specialist knowledge to genuinely solve clients and candidates' recruitment problems. NP Group have been recognised by Best Companies as 'one to watch' and are in the Recruiter Fast 50 as one of the fastest growing UK recruitment companies. Networking People (UK) is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. Networking People (UK) is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy. This job was originally posted as www.totaljobs.com/job/89948771