
Senior Infrastructure Engineer
- Manchester
- Permanent
- Full-time
- You will work within teams to launch projects through hands-on implementation, evaluate existing infrastructure and drive improvements.
- You will explore the client's needs and collaborate on building 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 other practitioners, 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 take a proactive 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 engineering leadership.
- You will adjust and suggest innovative solutions to current constraints and business policies.
- 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 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 have a history of working with 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 building one or more of: Linux servers, Windows servers, or container clusters.
- You have experience with 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.
- 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.