Junior Consultant with DevOps skills
Start date: ASAP
Salary: £32-£44k, depending on experience
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 Junior 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
- Creating and updating in-house toolsets using a variety of programming language
- Applying DevOps understanding and potential to enable internal and external clients
- Conducting client DevOps maturity assessments
- Automation of test packs for both internal and external products and teams
A day in the life of a Capacitas Junior Consultant includes:
- Working as part of a team and independently to carry out technical work for project delivery
- Participating in daily stand-up meetings with your project team
- Working within a talented and experienced team, constantly developing technical delivery skills and delivering independently
- Working with a project team, working efficiently to deliver to deadlines
- Building an internal and external network, proactively reaching out to engage colleagues and client contacts
- Identifying business opportunities for Capacitas within client account and more broadly where possible
- Professionally representing Capacitas in conversation with clients
- Preparing and participating in client presentations
- Identifying opportunities to innovate and improve efficiency or quality of our internal processes
- Following and, where appropriate, documenting company processes
- Using your technical capability to update our intellectual property to augment our existing processes
About the applicant - to thrive in this role, it is important you:
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 at least one development team
- 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, contributing to team meetings
- Able to apply a problem-solving mentality and approach
- Manages time effectively, balancing priorities
- Is curious and able to understand customer requirements and business objectives
- Is trust-worthy, reliable and approachable
- Able to work effectively as part of a team and independently
- Able to lead and motivate self, adhering to Capacitas values
- Willingness and ability to learn new technical tools
- Actively seeks feedback to grow
- Enables and drives own development
- Networks internally and externally
- Uses social media to promote and support Capacitas
- Is self-aware, considering own impact on others
Qualifications
2.1 degree (or equivalent), or an advanced degree in one of the following areas:
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 Junior Consultant
- APIs (further performance metrics)
- Monitoring tools (Cloudwatch, Dynatrace, NewRelic, etc)
What our Junior Consultants most like about being a Junior 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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