Key Duties & Responsibilities:
You are a team member on projects with the remit to deliver successful outcomes for our clients by demonstrating capability in the following areas.
Consulting BehavioursYou regularly interact with client stakeholders on behalf of the teamYou take ownership of your own deliverables and you are aware of how your own work contributes to the outcomes of the whole teamYou can challenge constructively and appropriately, both externally and internallyYou demonstrate good task estimation skills to meet deadlinesYou manage expectations and commit to a realistic amount of workYou understand priority and urgency of tasksYou escalate blockers and delays in a timely manner
Commercial mindsetYou take a client-centric approach and develop a deep understanding of what the client is trying to achieve, so as to deliver relevant, impactful outcomes and ROIYou can describe the impact of your work in commercial terms and use this understanding to drive client-engagementYou have solid stakeholder management, troubleshooting and conflict resolution skills to support successful outcomes
LeadershipYou use data and methodical self-review to make project decisions, contribute to OKRs, and to improve your own capabilityYou proactively offer support and coach / mentor more junior colleaguesYou actively seek to contribute towards AL Mission, Vision, Goals and OKRs
Contribute in other areas of the business such asInterviewing and recruitment processesSupporting the bid processes with written content on your specialist knowledgeKnowledge-sharing and contributing to AL repositories
Essential Skills & ExperienceYou can work independently and deliver quality and consistent outcomes for our clients in the majority of the following areas.
Agile methodologiesGood understanding of Agile methodologies such as Lean, Scrum or KanbanAwareness of concepts and benefits of iterative-based development, prototyping and MVP
DevOps and the SRE PrinciplesAdvocate and explain why DevOps and the SRE principles can help businesses to achieve their goals and deliver valueExplain how a high-trust and collaborative culture and a focus on Continuous Improvement is a key to customers successUnderstand importance of Observability and how tracking of DORA metrics to continually assess DevOps maturity of an organisationUnderstand how feedback loops contribute to effectiveness of Value Delivery Stream
Public CloudConfiguring or automating large scale environments in one or more of AWS, Azure or GCP
ProgrammingCreating well architected, styled, maintainable and readable code.Knowledge and working experience of TDD/BDD (unit testing)Experience with Object-orientated or functional programmingAwareness and experience with implementation of testing throughout the multiple levels of the Test Pyramid
Desired Skills & ExperienceContainerisation - the majority of the following;Experience of containerizing legacy workloads using DockerWorking experience with orchestration platforms running Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker Swarm or NomadAwareness or experience with PaaS container services such as AKS, EKS or ECSDeploying and managing workloads such as microservices on container orchestration platformsAware of security principles and best practices involved in operating platforms and the workloads including service meshes such as Consul or Istio
CI/CDYou are able to discuss the benefits of Continuous Deployment and Continuous Delivery and why you should deliver small and frequent releasesYou know and understand the importance of artifact versioning, promotion and deployment strategiesYou are aware of the tooling in the CI/CD space such as Azure DevOps, AWS CodePipeline, Jenkins
Infrastructure as Code (IAC)Knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code concepts and ability to implement using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, AWS CDK or ARM templatesAware of Compliance-as-Code and associated tools
SecurityUnderstand the need for security to be embedded at each stage of the value delivery processEnable and understand the need for automated complianceUnderstand the importance, concepts and the tooling around the threat analysis and security testing such as SAST, DAST, IAST, and RASP
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Role tech stack
Kanban
Docker
Kubernetes
Red Hat OpenShift
Docker Swarm

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