Principal Consultant

Due to the nature of the client engagements, every employee needs to be able to achieve Security Clearance.

This means that you need to have the right to take up employment within the UK, do not have or require any visa to work, and have been resident in the UK for at least 5 years without any gap(s) totalling more than 6 months.

As an employer we believe in facilitating a flexible work pattern whilst taking into consideration operational requirements, client and individual needs. We are proud of our hybrid work pattern that typically sees employees in the office for a minimum of 2 days per week.

You should be able to easily commute to our London office. For some roles/projects, travel to the clients offices will be required and the frequency is often determined by the client.

Diversity, equity and inclusion are integral to the success of 6point6. We welcome applicants with different perspectives, skills, life experiences and backgrounds, and are proud to have an organisational culture where employees can bring their authentic selves to work.

Key responsibilities in this role include:

• Define and implement DevOps strategies and best practices to optimise processes and systems
• Perform line management duties to a team of up to 5 engineers
• Be involved in setting DevOps department standards and technical direction, creating training materials and running “brown bag” training sessions for the wider team
• Support and Train junior colleagues under your line management, within your projects, and the wider DevOps department
• Lead and manage diverse DevOps and development projects, ensuring timely and successful delivery
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code technical solutions (as an example, via kube/helm & terraform)
• Contribute to writing and reviewing code according to project needs and designs
• Apply DevOps best practices of automation, TDD and tooling to CI/CD pipelines
• Design, Develop and manage cloud infrastructure and data platforms to ensure scalability and reliability
• Work as in a cross-discipline agile development team (managed via Scrum Agile processes)

It would also be great if you can bring in the following skills as an optional extra:

• Software development as part of a cross-disciplined team (Java)
• Scrum master qualifications or experience, help project management by running standups and other agile ceremonies

Requirements

• Proven experience in Senior DevOps roles, with a track record of managing teams and projects
• Experience line managing Engineers, and the associated mentoring and train of up and coming Engineers
• Working knowledge of cloud infrastructure, preferably AWS
• Working experience in developing CI/CD pipelines, preferably using Drone or similar tooling
• Knowledge of (IaC) Infrastructure as Code Systems, preferably Kubernetes, Helm, and Terraform
• Strong coding skills in languages such as Python, Bash, Ruby or Go
• Experience working in an Agile Delivery Team (preferability experience of Scrum/Kanban methodologies)
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Ability to build and maintain client relationships

It would be beneficial, but not required if you have :

• Working knowledge in Kafka cluster (preferably on MSK AWS platform), Docker and Kubernetes (EKS)

• Experience developing software with at least one common programming language (preferably Java and/or Python)

• Knowledge of foundational Software Engineering technologies such as TDD (Cucumber), Unit Testing (JUnit), Linting, and Software Frameworks (Spring)

As a technology consultancy, we look for people who can deliver both exceptional technical solutions and work as true partners to the organisations we support. To do this you must be able to:

Communicate effectively verbally and in writing, demonstrated through:

• Effectively explain complex technical solutions to a non-technical audience
• Writing meaningfully to deliver clear information, and guidance
• Giving impactful presentations, articulating clearly key points

Demonstrate critical thinking by:

• Analysing and evaluating information
• Using information gathered to present solutions and reach decisions
• Displaying familiarity and comfort with a breadth of technologies (appropriate to the level of the role) and an appreciation of how they can be combined and applied to solve customer problems.

Work in partnership with others to:

• Effectively manage both internal and external stakeholders to ensure synergy
• Collaborate meaningfully with all parties to ensure outcomes are reached effectively

Whilst having experience in a consultancy is beneficial, demonstrable experience in working with clients/external partners in other settings will always be considered.

During your career with us, we actively encourage and support employees to continually upskill and develop their skills and knowledge.