Lead Infrastructure Engineer: AWS, Azure and GCP

Lead Infrastructure Engineer: AWS, Azure and GCP

Infrastructure Developers help clients build and evolve systems that client organizations use to deliver and run software. They are comfortable working within teams of people with diverse roles and levels of experience to find solutions that meet the needs of the organization. They combine technical expertise and understanding with consideration of different situational needs. They champion technical quality and effective ways of working as a means to better outcomes for clients, rather than an end in themselves. They help clients to understand agile ways of working and DevOps as a mindset for collaboration.

Job Responsibilities

• 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 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.

Job Qualifications

Technical Skills

• You must have experience in the clouds such as AWS or Azure or GCP.
• You must know Terraform tool.
• 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.

Professional Skills

• 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.

About Thoughtworks

Thoughtworks is a global technology consultancy that integrates strategy, design and engineering to drive digital innovation. For 30+ years, our clients have trusted our autonomous teams to build solutions that look past the obvious. Here, computer science grads come together with seasoned technologists, self-taught developers, midlife career changers and more to learn from and challenge each other. Career journeys flourish with the strength of our cultivation culture, which has won numerous awards around the world.

Join Thoughtworks and thrive. Together, our extra curiosity, innovation, passion and dedication overcomes ordinary.