Senior Consultant: Infrastructure Engineer:GCP

Overview

Senior Consultant, Infrastructure Engineer (GCP) at Thoughtworks. Infrastructure Engineers help clients build and evolve the systems their organizations use to deliver and run software, working within diverse teams to find solutions that meet the organization's needs.

What you'll do

• Launch projects through hands-on implementation, evaluate existing infrastructure and drive improvements.
• Explore client needs and collaborate on a technical roadmap and impactful solution that support their business goals.
• Help shape and build Thoughtworks' cloud and infrastructure practice through collaboration with other practitioners, business development, marketing and capabilities development teams.
• Build the controls and processes for continuous delivery and evolution of infrastructure and applications, driving automation through all stages of the process.
• Take a proactive role in monitoring and ensuring that technical expectations of deliverables are consistently met on projects.
• Provide expertise and guidance in DevOps, cloud, platform and infrastructure engineering, both internally and at client sites.
• Establish trusting and thoughtful partnerships with a client's engineering leadership.
• Adjust and suggest innovative solutions to current constraints and business policies.

What you'll need

• Can contribute to the design and implementation of enterprise and/or web-scale hosting platforms and can administer application servers, web servers and databases.
• Deep understanding of cloud and virtualization platforms, infrastructure automation and application hosting technologies.
• Experience working with software delivery teams, and understanding of DevOps philosophies, Agile methods, Infrastructure as Code and how to apply them.
• 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.
• Can write scripts using at least one scripting language and is comfortable building one or more of: Linux servers, Windows servers, or container clusters.
• Experience with continuous integration and continuous delivery tools with different tech stacks.
• Previously worked with monitoring systems for availability, performance or security.
• Understanding of security concerns, threats and approaches for dealing with them, including infrastructure platform vulnerabilities, secrets management, network security and software supply chain security.
• Enjoys interacting with teammates from across the business and communicating technical concepts to nontechnical audiences.
• Comfortable partnering directly with infrastructure technicians, support and network analysts, security analysts, system administrators and/or IT managers to design technical strategies, while collaborating with senior IT groups in an advisory capacity.
• Adapts to uncertainty, embraces change, and makes decisions with limited information to achieve positive outcomes.

Nice to have

• Experience with unit testing and automated testing tools, stress and performance testing.

Details

• Location: Hyderabad, India.
• Work mode: Hybrid (#LI-Hybrid).