Senior Cloud (DevOps) Engineer

at  ThoughtWorks

Senior Cloud (DevOps) Engineers take a multifaceted approach to helping clients achieve technical excellence by assessing challenges from both a technical and operational perspective. They will play a vital part in bridging the gap between development and operations by designing, building, automating, and deploying applications on one of the public cloud platforms. They will also help customers adopt a DevOps mindset, breaking away from rigid, more traditional ways of working and pivoting to a more customer-focused and agile approach.

TECHNICAL SKILLS

• You have experience design and architect enterprise and/or web-scale hosting platforms and can seamlessly 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 a strong understanding Cloud services (Azure, AWS or GCP) and core concepts
• You understand DevOps philosophy, Agile methods, Infrastructure as Code to your work and lead infrastructure and operations with these approaches
• You have experience with server virtualisation, IaaS and PaaS cloud, Infrastructure provisioning and configuration management tools
• You can write scripts using at least one scripting language and are comfortable with building Linux and/or Windows servers systems
• You have experience with continuous integration (CI) tools with different tech stacks, web or mobile

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

• You will be expected to have a highly hands-on approach on design, develop, and implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using tools like Terraform or CloudFormation to automate infrastructure provisioning and configuration on AWS
• You will build, test, and deploy applications using DevOps methodologies and tools (e.g., CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins or GitLab)
• You will launch projects through hands-on implementation, evaluate and drive improvements to existing infrastructure
• You will work on a technical roadmap and deliver an impactful solution that will support their ambitious business goals
• You will ensure and build the controls and processes for continuous delivery of applications, considering all stages of the process and its automations
• You will monitor and ensure that technical expectations of deliverables are consistently met on projects
• You will build and establish trusting and thoughtful partnerships with a client’s development, platform and other supporting teams
• You will suggest innovative solutions to current constraints and business policies
• You will continuously learn and stay up-to-date on the latest Cloud & DevOps technologies and best practices