Lead Infrastructure Engineer

• You will explore the client's needs and drive the building of a technical roadmap and impactful solution that will support their ambitious business goals.
• You will help shape and build Thoughtworks' cloud and infrastructure practice through collaboration with business development, marketing, and capabilities development teams.
• You will ensure and build the controls and processes for continuous delivery and evolution of infrastructure and applications, driving automation through all stages of the process.
• You will ensure and build the controls and processes for continuous delivery and evolution of infrastructure and applications, driving automation through all stages of the process.
• You will take a leading role in monitoring and ensuring that technical expectations of deliverables are consistently met on projects.
• You will provide expertise and guidance in the areas of DevOps, cloud, platform and infrastructure engineering, both internally and in client sites.
• You will establish trusting and thoughtful partnerships with a client's leadership across engineering and commercial functions.
• You will lead the design and implementation of innovative solutions to current constraints and business policies.

• You can lead the collaborative design of enterprise and/or web-scale hosting platforms and can administer application servers, web servers and databases.
• You have a deep 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 regularly apply DevOps philosophy, Agile methods, Infrastructure as Code to your work and lead infrastructure and operations with these approaches.
• You have a history of working with server virtualisation, at least one IaaS cloud platform, and two 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 with building one or more of: Linux servers, Windows servers or container clusters, and/or Windows servers systems.
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery tools with different tech stacks, web or mobile.
• You've previously worked with monitoring systems for availability, performance or security, stress and performance testing with observability patterns: Distributed Tracing/OpenTracing, Log Aggregation, Audit Logging, Exception Tracking, Health Check API, Application MetricS, Self-Healing/Multi-Cloud.
• 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.

• 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 leadership teams (CTO/CIO/COO) 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.

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