Senior Cloud Native Application Consultant

Location: UK - Birmingham, UK - Edinburgh, UK - Hatfield, UK - London, UK - Milton Keynes, UK - Nottingham, UK - Reading | Job-ID: 208349 | Contract type: Standard | Business Unit: IT Consulting

About the team

As a CNAP Senior Consultant, you will deliver post sales technical consultancy for our clients. This includes the implementation and configuration of complex, large scale deployment solutions and designing solutions for products within recognised area of expertise.

What you’ll do

•    Provide high level consultancy role within specialist area to peer group, customers and if applicable direct reports
•    Manage and implement projects relevant to specialist area
•    Manages, develops and coaches team of staff and implement performance management solutions where required
•    Assess situations, issues and opportunities and escalate when appropriate
•    Acting as a point of escalation on complex issues and providing appropriate support
•    Maintain confidentiality in all business-related matters
•    Liaise with colleagues to ensure best practice and continual improvement in delivery of service
•    Establishes productive relationships and networks at Senior Management level to build and maintain customer relationships
•    Responsible for managing budget/ P&L to maintain spend in line with budgetary limitations
•    Responsible for the adoption of CC best practice and service offerings to ensure consistency of service
•    Makes decisions which impact on the success of assigned projects i.e. results, deadlines and budget
•    Act in accordance with Computacenter Information Security Policies and report any potential or actual Security events or other Security risks to the organisation

What you’ll need

•    Experience of working in a team of DevOps or DevSecOps practitioners
•    DevOps Tooling experience (Automation, Orchestration, CI/CD, Testing etc.)
•    An understanding of Agile Delivery (Kanban/SCRUM/XP/Lean/SAFe)
•    An understanding of DevOps Management (JIRA, Confluence)
•    Awareness of CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins, GitLab or similar
•    Experience of Hashicorp Terraform and Hashicorp Vault
•    Experience of working with Cloud Native Applications practitioners
•    Experience of leading Cloud Native Application Development
•    Container native technologies and ecosystem experience
•    Experience of Openshift, Tanzu or Kubernetes
•    Certifications in Kubernetes, Openshift or VMWare Tanzu suite would be preferable
•    Ideally certified in Gitlab, Terraform and Vault would be desirable

Current information for our applicants

Business as usual? Not quite. Of course, the Corona crisis also presents us with major challenges.

However, we are broadly positioned across various industries, plan for the long term and have always been flexible in our approach to our customers, especially in times of crisis. Our core business is digitisation. We believe that this topic will continue to grow in importance for many companies in both public and private sectors.

That's why there are still areas of our business with clear hiring requirements – and we would like to bring talent like you on board! By the way, we have completely virtualised our application process and our recruiters remain available to you should you have any questions.

We are still looking forward to getting to know you!

About us

Computacenter is a leading independent provider of IT infrastructure services. We work at the heart of digitisation, advising organisations on IT strategy, implementing the most appropriate technology and managing our customers’ infrastructures.

We offer a friendly, open working environment without too much fuss about hierarchy. We are looking for professionals with diverse competencies, personalities and strengths who want to live our shared value of teamwork and performance.

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