Purpose of the Job
As a Technical Consultant at CACI IIG, you will join one of our small, fast-paced, agile delivery teams; using agile methodology and DevOps techniques to build backend systems, data processing pipelines, and progressive web apps for customers in the UK Government and Defence sector. Our Technical Consultants take a leading role in the delivery team, from looking after the more complex tasks through to managing relationships with our customers and taking accountability for delivering projects to agreed timelines. This will include ensuring the team are comfortable with their tasks and holding a broader oversight for what everyone within their team is responsible for.
You will oversee and play a leading role in the full project lifecycle including project concept formalisation; requirements analysis and specification; architecture design; solution implementation and delivery. You will be using your broad experience across a range of technical tools, languages and methodologies to implement high quality solutions and create innovative and effecting solutions.
As a Technical Consultant, career development and ongoing training is a key part of your growth. You will be expected to take significant ownership of your career and proactively take the steps which you need to achieve the goals set for yourself. You will also be expected to promote new technology within help the business to keep ahead of new technology trends.
Typical Responsibilities
▪ Play a leading role in feature teams to efficiently and securely develop, test, deploy, release operate and monitor software products
* Design and operate automated CICD pipelines
▪ Design and operate shared Platform services for Deployment, Operation and Monitoring
▪ Design and Operate Platform services for containerised products
▪ Write and deploy Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
▪ Deploy and operate products in public and private cloud environments (AWZ, Azure, On-Prem)
▪ Support and advise teams as they onboard products to shared platform services
▪ Ensuring best practice Agile methodologies (including SCRUM & Kanban) are implemented and followed.
▪ Providing consultancy support to customers, assisting them with technology choices and solutions to complex problems
▪ Managing relationships with our customers
▪ Ensuring your knowledge and professional development keeps pace with an everchanging technology landscape
▪ Providing leadership and support to delivery team members as required
Knowledge:
▪ Understands security principles and how to implement various practices so a projects infrastructure are best protected.
Experience:
▪ Mastery of various cloud technologies including AWS or Azure.
▪ Developing and deploying secure products using appropriate technology and patterns
▪ Implementing best practice across the techniques which enable devops - including virtualisation, containerisation, continuous integration, continuous deployment and infrastructure as code.
▪ Experience working to an Agile methodology such as Scrum & Kanban.
▪ Leading the design and development of new solutions or upgraded features.
▪ Providing support / mentoring to employees at the early stages of their career.
▪ Experience with testing frameworks and tools.
▪ Taking accountability for key project deliverables.
▪ Implementing Agile methodology and best practice into a delivery team.
▪ Lead when it comes to mentoring, employees within your team, also structing meetings with your team members so that they know they are supported.
Skills:
▪ Ability to explain and distribute day-to-day tasks/requirements in a clear and concise manner using employees’ strengths where best suited.
▪ Appreciation for a projects strategic and commercial goals.
▪ Ability to lead and maintain long-term relationships with high-level stakeholders – both internally and externally.
Clearance Requirements
Due to the industries this role will be associated with, we require the successful candidate to be eligible for security clearance. To qualify for this, you must be a British Citizen and have lived permanently in the UK for the last 5 years.