Consultant: Infrastructure Engineer

Infrastructure Engineers help clients build and evolve systems that client organizations use to deliver and run software. They are comfortable working within teams of people with diverse roles and levels of experience to find solutions that meet the needs of the organization. They combine technical expertise and understanding with consideration of different situational needs.

They champion technical quality and effective ways of working as a means to better outcomes for clients, rather than an end in themselves. They help clients to understand agile ways of working and DevOps as a mindset for collaboration. Job responsibilities Collaborate within teams to implement projects, assess existing infrastructure and propose improvements.

Evaluate client requirements and contribute to building technical roadmaps and solutions aligned with their ambitious business goals. Assist in the establishment of controls and processes for continuous delivery and evolution of infrastructure and applications through all stages of the process. Provide expertise in areas like DevOps, cloud, platform and infrastructure engineering, both internally and at client sites.

Build trustworthy relationships with client engineering leadership. Propose innovative solutions and adjustments within the constraints of existing policies and business requirements. Job qualifications Technical Skills You can contribute to the design and implementation of enterprise and/or web-scale hosting platforms and can administer application servers, web servers and databases.

You have an understanding of cloud and virtualization platforms, infrastructure automation and application hosting technologies. You have experience working with software delivery teams and understand DevOps philosophies, Agile methods, Infrastructure as Code and how to apply them to your work. You have good knowledge of at least one IaaS cloud platform and one or more application runtime platforms including physical servers, virtual servers, container clusters, serverless and databases.

You can write scripts using at least one scripting language and are comfortable building one or more of: Linux servers, Windows servers or container clusters. You have good knowledge of continuous integration and continuous delivery tools with different tech stacks. You’ve previously worked with monitoring systems for availability, performance or security.

You have an understanding of security concerns, threats and approaches for dealing with them, including infrastructure platform vulnerabilities, secrets management, network security and software supply chain security. Bonus points if you have experience with unit testing and automated testing tools, stress and performance testing.

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. Other things to know Learning & Development There is no one-size-fits-all career path at Thoughtworks: however you want to develop your career is entirely up to you. But we also balance autonomy with the strength of our cultivation culture.

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