Location: Manchester (hybrid working arrangements, typically 1-2 days per week in the office).
Employment type: Permanent.
Salary: £90,000 - £95,000 dependent on experience, plus bonus and other benefits.
The Opportunity:
We are seeking a highly experienced and strategic leader to join a major consulting team that we are supporting with resources as a DevOps Consulting/Advisory Managing Consultant.
In this role, you will be responsible for overseeing and managing the consultancies DevOps consulting practice, driving business growth, and delivering high-impact solutions to their clients. As a Managing Consultant, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the direction of their DevOps practice and leading a team of consultants to deliver exceptional results for clients.
Responsibilities:
* Assessing, defining and implementing DevOps capabilities that will deliver on innovation, agility, cost benefit and time to market promises.
* Adopting a holistic approach across multiple dimensions to modernise the developer experience. These dimensions will include Organization & culture,
* DevOps practices & process, tooling and automation, architecture & design.
* Leverage and maximising clients existing investments in ITSM tools and frameworks
* Developing the road map and transient states to improve the maturity of DevOps practices and unlock maximum value by adopting NextGen techs like Generative AI and Platform Product Management
You will be required to work and communicate with all levels of an organisation to collaboratively innovate, design, and implement modern technologies, processes, and operating models.
You will bring an acute sense of market trends and the challenges facing their clients, to deliver lasting and sustainable organisation transformations.
Key expectations from this role include:
* As a Managing Consultant/Senior Manager: desire to contribute to the growth and success of a top-tier consulting practice. Contribute to their market offers, knowledge and the overall strategic goals of the practice. In delivery and leadership, you’ll be responsible for consulting sales in excess of £500,000 per annum.
Experience:
You will bring experience in transformation through technology and optimize the way clients operate. Comfortable at working in a technology-driven environment, you will bring proven skills and experience in the following:
* Solid understanding of hybrid and multi-cloud environments, DevOps, CI/CD and SRE
* Implementation of DevSecOps models along with necessary tooling, business change and processes.
* Implementing product centric operating model- Focussing on building the right product, cultivating right ways of working and managing the flow of value from concept to delivery
* Experience in DevX, assessment of current development environment and implementing solutions that lead to more efficient, effective, and secure software development environment.
* Experience in lean process design and use of lean techniques like Value stream mapping to identify and remove waste from the system.
* Consulting/Coaching experience in implementing new ways of working and enabling agile delivery transformation.
* Enabling continuous delivery while ensuring reliability, quality, observability, and performance.
* Understanding of build and deployment pipelines, test driven development, automated testing, Test data management, automated Environment provisioning, Version control, Monitoring and alerting and DevOps enablers.
* Understanding of observability and monitoring platform; Experience of having collaborated with developers to implement and improve observability and monitoring practices is preferred.
* Experience in leveraging DORA framework to effectively improve the performance of DevOps teams - Desired.
* Experience in defining OKRs/KPIs, setting up process/systems to measure, track and take corrective actions to drive speed, productivity, and quality improvements.
* Security and governance models for cloud engineering and operations -Desired.
* Driving IT and business automation across product management, engineering, and operations -Desired.
* ITIL and service management.
* Being comfortable in a client-facing role, with previously consulting or advisory experience.
As a requirement, all candidates must be SC eligible and (sponsorship cannot be supplied). Some travel may be required based on business demand.