Lead DevOps Architect in London - Stealth It Recruitment Ltd

Partnering with a prominent IT consultancy in their quest for a Lead DevOps Architect.

Permanent Role
Salary: £95,000 - £100,000, plus additional bonuses and benefits.
Candidates must be eligible for SC Clearance
Please note no sponsorship will be provided

The focus of your role, as a Lead DevOps Architect, will be two-fold. You will be able to support agile delivery teams to maximize the benefits of software automation, defining development architectures, and supporting DevOps adoption. Lead DevOps Architects also set the agenda for clients evolution of their entire operating models to become the agile enterprise.

As part of your role, you will also have the opportunity to contribute to the business and your personal growth, through activities that form part of the following categories:

Business Development Leading/contributing to proposals, RFPs, bids, proposition development, client pitch contribution, and client event hosting.
Internal contribution Campaign development, internal think-tanks, whitepapers, practice development (operations, recruitment, team events & activities), offering development.
Learning & Development Training to support your career development and the skills demanded within the company, certifications etc.

You will:

Define compelling visions for DevOps and how, through it, Digital Delivery achieves transformational results in the enterprises mission
Secure executive commitment and funding for the adoption of DevOps
Define development environment architectures
Select appropriate DevOps automation tooling for the context
Advise and guide implementation and integration of DevOps toolchain
Participate in defining delivery operating models and development methods
Contribute to establishing an Agile delivery culture and the place of DevOps within it
Conduct quality and lean process improvement applying Design Thinking for review of development processes to determine failure risks, waits, bottlenecks and develop automation improvements
Maintain familiarity with emerging and leading practices and tooling
Communicate with both business and IT teams at all levels to ensure alignment and either change the solution or pivot when necessary
Utilise data-driven decision-making and build appropriate recommendations for your client
Cultivate strong relationships among working teams and have exposure to senior leadership
Be responsible for developing our business, carrying a personal sales target of £1m
Develop our next generation of digital architects through formal line management and informal mentoring, coaching, and learning development

To be part of this team, you will have a mixture of the following experience:
Selection, architecture definition, implementation and use of:

Automated CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, TeamCity, GitLab CI etc.
Infrastructure automation and provisioning tooling such as Terraform
Compliance and security in CI/CD
Orchestration and creation of containers such as Kubernetes, Docker Swarm
Productivity, Knowledge, and Collaboration tooling
Experience of DevOps on leading cloud platforms such as Azure, GCP, AWS, Oracle Cloud
Digital delivery/development Target Operating Models, including orientation to the enterprises value motivation and value outcome
Establishment of new ways of working, achieving cultural change, and winning hearts and minds
Software development, testing, configuration management
Agile delivery methods and ceremonies
Business and investment case development

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