Senior Consultant with DevOps Skills

Start date: ASAP

Salary: Up to £60,000 (Consultant) or £70,000 (Senior Consultant) depending on experience, plus competitive bonus based off company and individual performance

Type: Permanent, full-time

Hours: 37.5 per week

Location: Hybrid. You can work from your home, though you must be able to travel to our Farringdon, Central London office or client sites (mostly London) as required. This is likely to be once per week at the least.

About Capacitas

Founded in 2002 and based in London, Capacitas is the only consulting firm specialising exclusively in reducing cost and performance risk in business-critical IT systems.

• We are thought leaders and trusted advisors in IT Performance Assurance
• We have a unique methodology that strikes the balance between service, risk and cost
• We have extensive experience protecting high revenue, high availability clients
• We invest in R&D - developing solutions to enable fast, efficient and scalable delivery

At Capacitas we know what great performance looks like for our clients and their customers. We enable our client’s IT systems to be available, fast and cost efficient without slowing their rate of business change.

Number of employees – circa 55

Our clients include – JD Sports, EasyJet, Deloitte, UKHSA, and many more

To hear more about us and what we do for our clients please visit our website

About the role

As a Consultant with Capacitas, you will be quickly utilised on client engagements, working as part of a project team with experienced and talented colleagues. You will most often be in a client serving role and the range of projects you work on will vary according to current demand and your professional development path. Typical projects include:

• Automating through use of DevOps capability
• Conducting client DevOps maturity assessments
• Looking for ways to reduce client money spent on IT & DevOps infrastructure
• Creating and updating in-house toolsets using a variety of programming language
• Applying DevOps expertise to enable internal and external clients
• Automation of test packs for both internal and external products and teams
• Transferring your technical knowledge to juniors, providing feedback and support to facilitate the development of others

A day in the life of a Capacitas Consultant includes:

• Working as part of a team and independently to carry out technical work for project delivery and, depending on experience, leading small teams on complex projects
• Leading/working as part of a team and independently to carry out technical work for client project delivery
• Exercising your strong technical knowledge and continuously deepening your technical skills. Depending on experience, you are able to unblock technical issues for others, train a team and learn new tools as required
• Participating in and, dependent on experience, leading daily stand-up meetings with your project team
• Assisting, mentoring and line managing junior staff, following our people management processes
• Managing simple projects to time and budget, enabling project profitability, directly interacting with clients and, dependent on experience managing, planning and executing delivery of complex projects
• Leading simple projects, engaging and motivating others to deliver and, dependent on experience, creating and executing thorough plans including budgeting, resourcing and risk management, taking into account dependencies and assumptions
• Presenting to various audiences, catering to different backgrounds and levels of technical knowledge in audience
• Building an internal and external network, proactively reaching out to engage colleagues and client contacts and, depending on experience, establishing, maintaining and deepening relationships with senior stakeholders, exploring true client needs and where Capacitas can add value, strategically growing your professional network
• Identifying business opportunities for Capacitas within client account and more broadly where possible and, depending on experience, applying strong understanding of our business and client needs to propose approaches to deliver value for clients, acting as a solution architect
• Serving as a project point of contact for internal and external client contacts
• Serving as an internal go-to person in an area of technical expertise, depending on experience drawing on senior support as appropriate
• Supporting our marketing strategy by creating following, liking and reposting Capacitas content and, depending on experience, create marketing content for insights, blogs and sales collateral
• Identifying opportunities to innovate and improve efficiency or quality of our internal processes
• Following and ensuring juniors follow company processes
• Using your technical capability to create IP to augment our existing processes

 

About the applicant - to thrive in this role, it is important you:

1)     Are motivated by:

• An inherent desire to work in tech
• An inherent desire to work with, add value to, and satisfy clients
• An inherent desire to continuously learn and grow
• Working in a collaborative environment in which you support and are supported by others

2)     Show the following behaviors:

• Enjoy seeking, building and maintaining relationships, demonstrating empathy and emotional intelligence in interpersonal interactions to build productive working relationships
• Demonstrate flexibility and adaptability in response to changing conditions and/or priorities
• Demonstrate resilience and persistence in the face of challenges, seeing setbacks as a positive opportunity for growth
• Are alert to market trends or occurrences and are able to consider how Capacitas and our clients may be impacted by these
• Confidence to try new things and challenge the status quo
• Actively listen and understand client and colleague needs
• Demonstrate curiosity about customers’ technical and business environments
• Share knowledge with others and reach out to others to ask for their expertise
• Seek challenging problems to solve
• Demonstrate ownership of own work
• Drive own development, seeking and pursuing opportunities for continuous growth

3)     Have the following experience and abilities:

Technical

• Have a computer science background
• Have a background in working with DevOps or Development teams
• Have interest in and knowledge of the cloud and DevOps, especially AWS and Azure environments and supporting containerisation, though not necessarily experience in working with these
• Have interest and knowledge in CI/CD processes and pipeline configuration using tools such as Jenkins
• Have interest and knowledge in cloud infrastructure setup using tools such as Cloud Formation and Terraform
• Have knowledge in VCS tools for storing and committing source code, such as GitHub or Azure DevOps
• Have working practice on working with Development teams
• Have knowledge and working practice with Development projects, using front-end and back-end languages, such as Angular, Python or C#
• Automating cloud infrastructure setup using tools such as Cloud Formation and Terraform
• Monitoring, including basic and complex metric understanding, and familiarity with monitoring agents
• Understanding of IT infrastructure
• Interest in and willingness to continue to develop capacity planning and modelling skills
• Interest in and willingness to continue to develop performance engineering skills
• Interest in and willingness to continue to develop cost optimization skills
• Interest in and willingness to continue to develop development skills, including automation and coding
• At least intermediate excel skills for data analysis, with willingness to learn advanced excel skills
• At least intermediate powerpoint and word skills

 

Other

• Communicates and presents clearly and professionally, inspiring trust and confidence
• Able to communicate technical concepts to non-technical people
• Able to apply a problem-solving mentality and approach
• Able to understand customer requirements and business objectives
• Able to work effectively as part of a team and independently
• Able to lead and manage simple projects
• Able to learn quickly
• Willingness and ability to learn new technical tools
• Able to give and receive feedback effectively
• Able to facilitate and support the development of others
• Is self-aware, considering own impact on others

Qualifications

2.1 degree (or equivalent), or an advanced degree in one of the following areas:

• Computing
• Sciences
• Engineering
• Mathematics

OR

2.1 bachelors or advanced degree from any discipline + demonstrated desire and aptitude, proven through work experience, to work in tech

Technical tools you may use as a Consultant

• AWS, Azure
• Azure DevOps
• Cypress
• APIs (further performance metrics)
• Gatling
• GitHub
• Monitoring tools (Cloudwatch, Dynatrace, NewRelic, etc)
• PowerBI
• PowerQuery
• Specflow
• Visual Studio/VS Code

What our consultants most like about being a consultant at Capacitas

• Working with people, as well as tech
• Sense of reward that comes from achieving deliverables
• Plenty of responsibility, which increases as you are ready for it
• Our supportive, collaborative and empowering culture

How can you find out more?

We encourage and welcome any enquiries from prospective candidates. Please feel free to contact  Neil McMenemy or Elaine Hunter for an informal discussion about the role.

 

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