Description
We are IT Recruitment Specialists partnered with a prestigious Global Consultancy who required a Code Architect - Knutsford for one of their public sector Clients based in UK.
- IR35: This role is inside of IR35
- Initial duration: 6 months
Role Description:
- Development and drive of improvements in Chef toolset, focusing on process optimization and establishment of best practices
- Contribute to the strategic product roadmap and development
- Provide expertise and technical support to application or infrastructure teams and your colleagues
- Participate in driving adoption and use of Chef across organization - you will be required to code in python, ruby and Chef DSL
- Stakeholder Management and Leadership
- Build relationships with internal Barclays clients, discuss and understand their infrastructure needs both on a practical and commercial level. Provide input/influence to design activity
- Capability to work in geographically dispersed team
- Ability to communicate between technical and business teams
- Empathy and capability to control/manage escalations in highly pressurized environment
- Ability to adapt quickly and to demonstrate a flexible approach
- Decision-making and Problem Solving
- As an AVP, the identified candidate should individually evaluate the assigned job requirements, connect with multiple stakeholders and with appropriate judgement and analytical skills, deliver the same with appropriate planning as an Individual Contributor.
- Good interpersonal skills
- Organisation and prioritisation skills
- Management of tasks and responsibilities to ensure the efficient running of the Supported Services.
- Technical remediation planning and scope determination during major incidents
Risk and Control Objective
Ensure that all activities and duties are carried out in full compliance with regulatory requirements, Enterprise-Wide Risk Management Framework and internal Policies and Policy Standards
Person Specification
An experienced product Architect, with previous hands-on experience of Chef, who is able to work in a global team, influence stakeholders and able to deliver to an agreed roadmap.
Essential Skills/Basic Qualifications:
- Experienced Solution/Product Architect with specific knowledge of Chef architecture as a platform for automated configuration management in a complex environment
- Expert level knowledge of Chef Infrastructure (Cookstyle, test kitchen, chef spec, runlist, policies, data stores, data bags, chef infra server)
- Experience with knife command and writing recipes for infrastructure cookbooks
- Hands on experience of Jenkins Pipeline, GIT and writing CI/CD pipeline
- Experience of writing Python code
- Experience in writing SQL queries
- Self-starter with a challenging but positive and influential style
Desirable skills/Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience of Cloud Infrastructure - AWS and Azure
- Experience of both Windows and Unix OS
- Knowledge/Experience of Ansible
- TOGAF certification
- Knowledge of Agile & Lean methodologies & DevOps
- Experience of Ruby
If you are interested in this position and would like to learn more please send through your CV and we will get in touch with you as soon as possible. Please note, candidates are often Shortlisted within 48 hours.