To £75k base depending on experience - competitive bonus and benefits package offered
Location
Hybrid. You can work from your home, though you must be able to travel to our Farringdon, Central London office or client sites (mostly London) as required. This is likely to be once per week on average.
About Capacitas
Founded in 2002 and based in London, Capacitas is the only consulting firm specialising exclusively in reducing cost and performance risk in business-critical IT systems:
* We are thought leaders and trusted advisors in IT Performance Assurance
* We have a unique methodology that strikes the balance between service, risk and cost
* We have extensive experience protecting high revenue, high availability clients
* We invest in R&D - developing solutions to enable fast, efficient and scalable delivery
At Capacitas we know what great performance looks like for our clients and their customers. We enable our client’s IT systems to be available, fast and cost efficient without slowing their rate of business change. Our clients include JD Sports, EasyJet, Deloitte, UKHSA, and many more. To hear more about us and what we do for our clients please visit our website: https://www.capacitas.co.uk/
About the role
As a Senior Consultant with Capacitas, you will be quickly utilised on client engagements, working as part of a project team with experienced and talented colleagues. You will most often be in a client facing role and the range of projects you work on will vary according to current demand and your professional development path. Typical projects include:
* Looking for ways to reduce client money spent on IT performance
* Cost Ops and Fin Ops
* Automating through use of DevOps capability
* Conducting systems risk management assessments
* Performance audits
* Designing performance test plans to address performance risk
* Demand forecasting / planning
* Development of capacity and performance models
* Proactive system monitoring to identify performance risks
A day in the life of a Capacitas Senior Consultant includes:
* Leading small teams on complex projects
* Managing, planning and executing delivery of complex projects
* Leading or participating in daily stand-up meetings with your project team
* Chairing team meetings
* Assisting, mentoring and line managing junior staff, following our people management processes
* Creating and executing thorough plans including budgeting, resourcing and risk management, taking into account dependencies and assumptions.
* Exercising your strong technical knowledge and continuously deepening your technical skills, so that you are able to unblock technical issues for others, train a team and learn new tools as required
* Serving as an internal point of contact in area of technical expertise, tailoring guidance given depending on colleague needs
* Transferring your technical knowledge to juniors, providing feedback and support to facilitate the development of others
* Leading/working as part of a team and independently to carry out technical work for client project delivery
* Presenting to various audiences, catering to different backgrounds and levels of technical knowledge in audience
* Establishing, maintaining and deepening relationships with senior stakeholders, exploring true client needs and where Capacitas can add value
* Applying strong understanding of our business and client needs to propose approaches to deliver value for clients, acting as a solution architect
* Supporting our marketing strategy by creating content for insights, creating blogs and creating sales collateral
* Strategically growing and nurturing your professional network
* Ensuring key processes for complex projects are documented and applying our IP efficiently across projects/departments
* Create IP drawing on deep technical knowledge, also review and oversee IP creation by juniors
About the applicant - to thrive in this role, it is important you
Are motivated by:
* An inherent desire to work in tech
* An inherent desire to work with, add value to, and satisfy clients
* An inherent desire to continuously learn and grow
* Working in a collaborative environment in which you support and are supported by others
Show the following behaviors:
* Enjoy seeking, building and maintaining relationships, demonstrating empathy and emotional intelligence in interpersonal interactions to build and maintain productive working relationships
* Demonstrate flexibility and adaptability in response to changing conditions and/or priorities
* Demonstrate resilience and persistence in the face of challenges, seeing setbacks as a positive opportunity for growth
* Proactively anticipate client needs based on own area of expertise and what is current in the wider sector
* Confidence to try new things and challenge the status quo
* Actively listen and understand client and colleague needs
* Demonstrate curiosity about customers’ technical and business environments
* Share knowledge with others and reach out to others to ask for their expertise – support and rely on others
* Seek challenging problems to solve, recognizing the opportunity to develop and grow
* Demonstrate ownership of own work
* Drive own development, seeking and pursuing opportunities for continuous growth
* Is inclusive, valuing diverse perspectives of others
* Is collaborative, regardless of role or discipline
Have the following experience and abilities:
Essential
* Good working knowledge of one of major cloud provider (AWS, Azure or GCP)
* Working knowledge of either python, advanced excel, power BI or any similar data processing tools
* Ability to analyse, interpret and manage information, data and trends
* Data analysis, including moving averages, CPU aggregation and normalising
* Good understanding of IT infrastructure
* At least intermediate Excel skills for data analysis, with willingness to learn advanced excel skills
* At least intermediate Powerpoint and Word skills
* Excellent attention to detail
Desirable
* Performance testing skills using HP, LoadRunner or Jmeter
* Performance test design
* Performance test automation skills
* Monitoring, including basic and complex metric understanding, and familiarity with monitoring agents
* Capacity planning and modelling skills
* Experience delivering cloud cost optimisation, identifying opportunities for reduced spend
* Financial modelling
* Proven experience of financial numeracy, e.g. calculating savings, working out percentage growth, statistical and reporting skills
Qualifications
2.1 degree (or equivalent), or an advanced degree in computing
OR
2.1 bachelors or advanced degree from any discipline + demonstrated desire and aptitude, proven through work experience, to work in tech with a knowledge of computing
Technical tools you may use as a Senior Consultant
* AWS, Azure
* Cost-explorer
* AWS Console & CLI
* Cloudwatch
* APIs (further performance metrics)
* Monitoring tools for CPU
* Tagging and quicksight
* Reporting software, e.g. Cloudheath
* PRTG
* Zabex
* MatLab
* GitHub
* J-Meter
* Gatling
* Scripting and coding software
* PowerQuery
* PowerBI
If this sounds like something you might be interested in then we want to hear from you!
The Capacitas team ❤️