Firm
PA Consulting
Location
Bristol,
Benefits
Competive
Functional areas
Cloud
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The Distillery, Glassfields 1, 2 Avon Street, Bristol, BS2 0GR, United Kingdom, Bristol BS2 0GR, GB
Full-time
Company Description
We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future.
As strategies, technologies, and innovation collide, we create opportunity from complexity.
Our teams of interdisciplinary experts combine innovative thinking and breakthrough technologies to progress further, faster. Our clients adapt and transform, and together we achieve enduring results.
We are over 4,000 strategists, innovators, designers, consultants, digital experts, scientists, engineers, and technologists. And we have deep expertise in consumer and manufacturing, defence and security, energy and utilities, financial services, government and public services, health and life sciences, and transport.
Our teams operate globally from offices across the UK, Ireland, US, Nordics, and Netherlands.
PA. Bringing Ingenuity to Life.
Job Description
We believe in the power of ingenuity to build a positive human future. We challenge where it matters and own the outcome. We combine strategic thinking, customer-centric service design, and agile engineering practices to accelerate innovation in a tech-driven world.
Why consider joining our Digital & Data community?
Join our Digital & Data team working alongside product, design and a wide range of other experts and cross-disciplinary teams to bring ideas to life through innovative software solutions.
Grow a flexible and unique career within a trust-based, inclusive environment that values excellence, innovation, and curiosity. You have the option to progress with us on a technical career track. No need to go onto the Partner career track if this doesn't align with what you want to do.
Hybrid working - our approach is to be in the office or on client site a minimum of 2 days per week.
Work on a broad variety of projects and tech stacks for clients across seven sectors - no project is ever the same
Join other experts within our supportive and collaborative tech community through knowledge-sharing and peer-level support, coaching and mentoring
Deepen your expertise through our a culture of learning and growth – you'll have budget to take courses (technical and non-technical training), plus gain certifications
Role Description And Objectives
As a Principal Cloud DevOps Engineer, you'll be a true subject matter expert for delivering ingenious solutions on the Google Cloud Platform. Previous GCP expertise is not an essential criteria, but the desire to learn and grow more with the platform is essential. Experience with either AWS or Azure is essential. We'll be looking at you to set direction and take responsibility for successfully achieving an outcome or deliverable. You may have a team of people to support, leading a development team, or else you could be working across multiple teams, providing some centralised expertise necessary for a larger program of work.
You'll have expertise in architecture and will feel comfortable leading higher level architectural discussions.
Using your experience of the DevSecOps processes, it's likely you'll own the overall process across a team, or multiple teams, building strong principles and putting robust methods and patterns in place.
You will be comfortable having conversations with the client regularly, being one of the main points of engagement between the client and the project.
Coaching and mentoring the team will be important in the role.
You will help shape proposals (working with a bid team) and will leverage your technical skills to articulate appropriate solutions and may present these during a formal selection process.
You'll play an active role in technical account management.
As part of this role you will design ingenious GCP-enabled solutions and services for brilliant clients across industry sectors. You will learn and grow – PA will support you to further develop your specialisations and increase your GCP certifications. Expect a sleeves-up, fully associated, and immersive working week. All our people are client facing and empowered to fulfil the best outcome for their clients.
Qualifications
Professional experience
To Be Successful In This Role, You Will Need To Have Knowledge Of The Following Products And Deep Experience In One Or More Of The Categories:
Cloud Functions, Cloud Run
Kubernetes Engine, Compute Engine
VPCs, Service Perimeters
Cloud Spanner, Cloud SQL, BigQuery, Firestore
API Endpoints, Apigee, API Gateway
Vertex AI, Model Garden, ADK and Agent Engine
Security Command Centre, IAP, IAM
Additionally you should have a sound understanding of the following Architectural principles:
Microservices patterns
Event-driven architectures and message queues
Relational and non-relational databases
Development and/or scripting experience (e.g. Python, Node, Bash)
Secured, hardened
In addition to the above, we would be thrilled if you also had:
Knowledge of other cloud platforms
Automation DevOps experience using Google tech like Cloud Build and open source tech like terraform
Personal qualities
We Are Looking For An Experienced Person To Join, And Be Instrumental Within, Our Google Alliance Team. This Is a Critical Role, One That Will Stretch You Personally And Professionally, And Require You To Utilise Your Creative, Cognitive, And Emotional Intelligence. Therefore We Expect That:
You are pragmatic and already understand that building a platform is only part of what cloud engineering entails.
You can clearly communicate with both clients and peers, describing technical issues and solutions in both written and meeting/workshop contexts.
You are able to clearly explain technical concepts to non technical audiences at all levels of an organisation.
You are able to influence and persuade senior and specialist client stakeholders, potentially across multiple organisational boundaries without direct authority.
You are a confident problem solver and troubleshooter.
You are confident and generous in sharing your specialist knowledge, ideas and solutions.
You are constantly learning and able to make others better by consciously teaching and unconsciously inspiring.
You are obsessed with ensuring PA's reputation and credibility is always regarded at a remarkably elevated level, and unafraid to initiate corrective actions should this not be at our desired level.
Additional information
Life At PA encompasses our peoples' experience at PA. It's about how we enrich peoples' working lives by giving them access to unique people and growth opportunities and purpose led meaningful work.
Our purpose guides how we work with our clients and our teams, and support our communities, to deliver insight and impact, solving the world's most complex challenges. We're focused on building a workplace that values human difference and diverse mindsets, and a culture of inclusion and equality that unlocks the potential in our people so everyone can be their best self.
Find out more about Life at PA here .
We Are Dedicated To Supporting The Physical, Emotional, Social And Financial Well-being Of Our People. Check Out Some Of Our Extensive Benefits:
Health and lifestyle perks accompanying private healthcare for you and your family
25 days annual leave (plus a bonus half day on Christmas Eve) with the opportunity to buy 5 additional days
Generous company pension scheme
Opportunity to get involved with community and charity-based initiatives
Annual performance-based bonus
PA share ownership
Tax efficient benefits (cycle to work, give as you earn)
We're committed to advancing equality. We recruit, retain, reward and develop our people based solely on their abilities and contributions and without reference to their age, background, disability, genetic information, parental or family status, religion or belief, race, ethnicity, nationality, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity (or expression), political belief veteran status, or other by any other range of human difference brought about by identity and experience. We welcome applications from underrepresented groups.
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