Managing Consultant Senior Manager - Cloud DevOps Architect

Managing Consultant Senior Manager - Cloud DevOps Architect - Hybrid

Overview of The Role:

As a DevOps/DevX consultant, you will be part of our Cloud Advisory capability within the wider Business Technology capability unit. Our cloud advisory capability aims to inspire, lead and support organisations on their journey of adopting the cloud for creating business and revenue models, generating growth, ensuring regulatory compliance and reducing their carbon footprint.

In your role, you will deliver DevOps advisory that will enable the adoption, acceleration, and innovation on the cloud for our clients. This will mean:

Assessing, defining and implementing DevOps capabilities that will deliver on innovation, agility, cost-benefit and time to-market promises.

Adopting a holistic approach across multiple dimensions to modernise the developer experience. These dimensions will include Organization & culture, DevOps practices & processes, tooling and automation, and architecture & design.

Leverage and maximising our clients' existing investments in ITSM tools and frameworks

Developing the roadmap and transient states to improve the maturity of DevOps practices and unlock maximum value by adopting NextGen techs like Generative AI and Platform Product Management You will be required to work and communicate with all levels of an organisation to collaboratively innovate, design, and implement modern technologies, processes, and operating models. You will bring an acute sense of market trends and the challenges facing our clients, to deliver lasting and sustainable organisation transformations.

Key expectations from this role include:

As a Managing Consultant or Senior Manager: desire to contribute to the growth and success of a top-tier consulting practice. Contribute to our market offers, knowledge and the overall strategic goals of the practice. In delivery and leadership, you'll be responsible for consulting sales in excess of £500,000 per annum.

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You will bring experience in transformation through technology and optimize the way clients operate. Comfortable at working in a technology-driven environment, you will bring proven skills and experience in the following:

• Solid understanding of hybrid and multi-cloud environments, DevOps, CI/CD and SRE
• Implementation of DevSecOps models along with necessary tooling, business change and processes. Implementing product centric operating model- Focussing on building the right product, cultivating right ways of working and managing the flow of value from concept to delivery
• Experience in DevX, assessment of current development environment and implementing solutions that lead to more efficient, effective, and secure software development environment.
• Experience in lean process design and use of lean techniques like Value stream mapping to identify and remove waste from the system.
• Consulting/Coaching experience in implementing new ways of working and enabling agile delivery transformation.
• Enabling continuous delivery while ensuring reliability, quality, observability, and performance
• Understanding of build and deployment pipelines, test driven development, automated testing, Test data management, automated Environment provisioning, Version control, Monitoring and alerting and DevOps enablers.
• Understanding of observability and monitoring platform; Experience of having collaborated with developers to implement and improve observability and monitoring practices is preferred.
• Experience in leveraging DORA framework to effectively improve the performance of DevOps teams - Desired.
• Experience in defining OKRs/KPIs, setting up process/systems to measure, track and take corrective actions to drive speed, productivity, and quality improvements.
• Security and governance models for cloud engineering and operations -Desired
• Driving IT and business automation across product management, engineering, and operations -Desired
• ITIL and service management
• Being comfortable in a client-facing role, with previously consulting or advisory experience.

The Work

No matter the project or customer, your work will have a meaningful impact on society, businesses and lives. It's really rewarding. And it's also really varied. You'll potentially work on a huge variety of projects (some larger than others), so you could gain lots of experience in a short amount of time.

Why This Role

Our clients offer a cultural environment for consultants to learn, to take ownership and contribute to business growth.

We provide a host of opportunities for learning and certification through internal and partner-led programmes.

Client engagements allow you to work with our leadership and experienced consulting management, where you can learn from them, challenge them and accelerate your hands-on experience, delivery capability and industry insights.

You'll learn how we write compelling client propositions, structure and lead high-profile transformation, and gain hands-on exposure to leading technologies, often taking an idea from a concept to a vision, to strategy and then execution.