Description
Location: Knutsford
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 Barclays 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