Job Description:
About the role:
- You will be responsible for leading client engagements and building out the practice to enable the organisation to scale. This role will be a mixture of client-facing and internal growth.
- You will be hands-on in projects to provide technical guidance and validation to the team.
- You will be responsible for stakeholder management, building client relationships and identifying new opportunities.
- You will need to have a thirst to grow and mentor the team, people come first and it's important to foster the growth of the team.
Part of your responsibilities will be to support and engage in presales activities, this will include understanding requirements from customers, building out proposals and SOWs.
- You will be involved as part of the hiring process to ensure the team scales to match business growth and demand.
- Provide recommendations and thought into existing business processes to ensure optimum efficiency
About you (ideally):
- Demonstrate a working knowledge of DevOps practices such as CI, CD, Infra as Code, Cloud, Monitoring
- A passion for open-source programming or commercial tooling
- A strong background in leadership of multiple engineering teams
- Experience in building up and mentoring teams
- Being part of implementing end to end delivery lifecycles
- Hungry to learn, out of the box thinkers
- A client-focused 'can-do' attitude
- High attention to detail
- Continuously challenging the status quo
- Feeling comfortable to work with new clients
- Ideally passionate for speaking at conference and meetups
Technical Insight:
- Desirable experience working with some DevOps tooling:
- Continuous integration – Jenkins, TeamCity, TFS, Travis CI etc..
- Continuous Deployment/Delivery – Automic, Octopus Deploy, UrbanCode etc…
- Containers – Docker, Kubernetes, Mesosphere etc...
- Configuration Management – Ansible, Chef, Puppet etc…
- Cloud - AWS, Azure, GCP etc…
- Infrastructure as Code – HashiStack (Terraform, Vault, Consul ..), CloudFormation etc...
- Monitoring – ELK, Prometheus, Splunk etc…
- Experience in one of the following scripting language: Java, Bash, Python, Powershell, Golang, etc.
- Experience working with Linux and/or Windows systems
Why ECSDigital?
ECS Digital consultants benefit from comprehensive health and wellness plans including private healthcare (clinical & mental), discounted gym memberships, in office yoga sessions & massages.
Our awesome culture is at the heart of everything we do. We focus on genuine continuous development with a generous training budget. We also have a bespoke office in London Bridge with soft perks such as flexible working conditions and top of the range MacBooks. We have pods for collaboration and breakout areas for when you need to be in the zone. Sometimes things around the office can seem a little too good to be true. If you find yourself enjoying the pick and mix, playing pool, table tennis or playstation, coming out to one of the many team outings, and company paid Friday Lunch, don’t freak out. All these things are here for you to actually enjoy.
That said, it’s not simply a matter of all style and no substance. We continue to invest heavily in providing our staff with time to make progress. One week out of every four, you will down tools and be given time to invest in either upskilling with our partners’ latest releases or undertake fully paid external training. We understand how vital it is to allow to commit to areas you regard as personally relevant to fulfilling the ambitions of your career. We certify all of our engineers with each of our vendors and are committed to staying at the forefront of the frequent changes in our rapidly evolving digital landscape.
Our top priority is to attract, grow and maintain our talent on all levels and in all areas. If they are happy then we are too!
Company Benefits
- Competitive pension scheme to help later on in life and private medical insurance & a Health Cash Plan to call upon when needed.
- Annual Volunteering Days to work with a charity of your choice as we appreciate you may wish to give something back to the community.
- Reward & Recognition -Reward Gateway access to acknowledge when you're doing a great job.
- Holidays - Not just 25 days plus public holidays, you can also buy up to an extra five days to make sure you address that much needed work-life balance.
- Family First - Enhanced family friendly policies and access to on-line shopping discounts platform as we appreciate the other roles you may have in life.
- Health and Wellbeing - From free massages and annual health checks to subsidised gym membership and cycle to work schemes. Frequent Mental Health awareness days and access to a 24/7 EAP, as your welfare is important to us.
- Personal Development - Your personal development is key to us and we make sure you get time to invest in your own personal learning and career progression supported by our generous training budget.
- The Extras - Great coffee, fruit and snacks with beer and wine in the fridge and unforgettable social events, BBQ's and Christmas parties.
Interview Process
1.Phone Interview
2.Use Case / Technical Test
3,Face to Face Interview (Currently conducting F2F via video interview on Webex)
