Lead Consultant, Infrastructure Developer

Job Description

<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">How would you make your mark if you knew you could influence beyond your current projects?</span></em></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As consultants, we&nbsp;</span><a href="https://www.thoughtworks.com/careers/hub/consultant-life"><span style="font-weight: 400;">work with our clients</span></a><span style="font-weight: 400;">&nbsp;to ensure we’re evolving their technology and empowering adaptive mindsets to meet their business goals.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Lead Developers act as the primary point of contact for our clients, ensuring that teams are successful in their delivery. As a Lead Developer, you will bring a strategic mindset to projects and spend time negotiating with clients in order to bring a technical vision to life. Having a balance of high-level and tactical mindsets is a must, as you will spend time both with clients and alongside your fellow teammates.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Infrastructure Developers at Thoughtworks take a multifaceted approach to helping clients achieve technical excellence by approaching challenges from both a technical and operational perspective.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><strong>You’ll spend time on the following:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You will launch projects through hands-on implementation, evaluate and drive improvements to existing infrastructure;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You will listen to a client’s needs and formulate a technical roadmap and impactful solution that will support their ambitious business goals;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Help shape and build Thoughtworks’ cloud and infrastructure practice through collaboration with business development, marketing, and capabilities development teams;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Ensure and build the controls and processes for continuous delivery of applications, considering all stages of the process and its automations;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Monitor and ensure that technical expectations of deliverables are consistently met on projects;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Act as a thought leader—at client sites and at Thoughtworks—on DevOps, cloud, and infrastructure engineering;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Establish trusting and thoughtful partnerships with a client’s CIO, CTO, and relevant teams;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Adjust and suggest innovative solutions to current constraints and business policies;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Develop your career outside of the confinements of a traditional career path by focusing on what you’re passionate about rather than a predetermined one-size-fits-all plan.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><br></span><strong>Here’s what we’re looking for:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You genuinely enjoy interacting with teammates from across the business and have a knack for communicating technical concepts to nontechnical audiences</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You love creating robust, scalable, flexible, and relevant solutions that help transform businesses and industries</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You’re comfortable partnering directly with leadership teams (CTO/CIO/COO) to design technical strategies while simultaneously collaborating with senior IT groups in an advisory capacity</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You can design and architect enterprise and/or web-scale hosting platforms and can seamlessly administer application servers, web servers, and databases</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You have a deep understanding of cloud and virtualization platforms, infrastructure automation, and application hosting technologies</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You regularly apply DevOps philosophy, Agile methods, Infrastructure as Code to your work and lead infrastructure and operations with these approaches</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You have a history working with server virtualisation,&nbsp; IaaS and PaaS cloud,&nbsp; Infrastructure provisioning, and configuration management tools&nbsp;</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You can write scripts using at least one scripting language and are comfortable with building Linux and/or Windows servers systems</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Experience with continuous integration tools with different tech stacks, web or mobile</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You’ve previously worked with monitoring systems for stress and performance testing with Observability Pattern: Distributed Tracing/ OpenTracing, Log Aggregation, Audit Logging, Exception Tracking, Health Check API, Application MetricS, Self-Healing/Multi-Cloud</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Bonus points if you have experience with unit testing and automated testing tools</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>About Thoughtworks</strong></p> <p>Thoughtworks is a global technology and digital transformation consultancy. We are a community of passionate individuals who share a common purpose to revolutionize software design, creation and delivery, while advocating for positive social change. We help organisations challenge the status quo and create meaningful, scalable differentiation at speed through technology and design. We love to get better at what we do, at how we think. We love to learn. We love to share.</p> <p><strong>Thoughtworks’ Culture</strong></p> <p>We are community that nurtures and celebrates talent, irrespective of gender, background and any bias. Diversity is in our DNA and is a core part of our culture. Respect, continuous feedback and a non-hierarchical structure are all an important part of our culture. As ThoughtWorkers, we have equal opportunities to grow, share our ideas and even re-invent ourselves.</p> <p><strong>What's on offer</strong></p> <p>Thoughtworks offers a community-oriented environment centred around learning, sharing, growing and feedback. All Thoughtworkers receive an annual professional development allowance to attend conferences, courses, workshops and to purchase books. Our large network of mentors and coaches provide a supportive environment to connect with the Thoughtworks' community, as well as the opportunity to develop professionally and personally.</p> <p>Other benefits include a generous paid parental leave package, a communications allowance, free and discounted tickets to major industry conferences, and catered Friday lunches as a chance to connect with each other each week.</p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you’re ready to find your home at Thoughtworks, click to apply now!</span></p> <p><br><span style="font-weight: 400;">Not quite ready to apply? 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