DevOps - Senior Consultant

Opencast, incorporated; Newcastle upon Tyne; Hybrid; GBP 65,000 - 95,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pension

Health cash plan

Share options

Discretionary bonus

Flexible hours

25 days' holiday

Job summary

Opencast is a growing tech consultancy that builds user-centered, scalable systems for government, healthcare and purpose-driven organisations. As a Senior DevOps Consultant, you will lead outages response, design and implement continuous deployment, and mentor colleagues while collaborating with clients to align with their ways of working.

You’ll work across multiple platforms with a cloud-native, vendor-agnostic approach, joining a diverse, inclusive team that values learning and quality.

Qualifications

• Senior DevOps experience in a tech consultancy or similar environment.
• Proven ability to design, implement and operate reliable CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong collaboration with clients and cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

• Take the lead on outages, triage issues, and manage stakeholder expectations.
• Design, develop and implement continuous deployment and automation solutions.
• Mentor other engineers and share knowledge within Opencast communities.

Skills

DevOps

Cloud

CI/CD

Scripting

Monitoring

Tools

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Hybrid - Newcastle, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, London

Commitment:

Permanent - Employee

Ready to automate, innovate and make a real impact?

Do you want to build reliable, scalable systems that make a real difference to millions of people? Do you want to work at a certified B Corp with an inclusive and learning culture as part of a diverse team of great people?

If so, Opencast could be the place for you. We’re a growing tech consultancy that creates user-centred solutions with purpose for our clients in government, healthcare and purpose-driven businesses. Working in DevOps, you’ll build and maintain the systems that let teams respond quickly to needs. You’llwork on high-impact projects, helping to build reliable, scalable systems. We align work to industry-recognised roles such as Build & Release Engineer (BRE), Platform Engineer (PLE) or Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) and, where needed, to more specialised areas such as security, cloud hosting, infrastructure or networking.

What’s life like as a senior devops consultant at Opencast?

At Opencast, we love to keep things simple, and we love automation.

It’s not the same as your standard senior devops consultant job. Depending on your client’s needs, you’ll take on a range of roles. These will include:

Taking the lead on responding to outages, triaging issues, balancing stakeholder priorities/concerns, and keeping communication channels open with all parties.

Designing, developing, and implementing continuous deployment solutions that help our clients to deliver software faster and more efficiently.

Collaborating with our clients to understand their ways of working and will have an enthusiasm to learn new tools and technologies as needed.

Helping and mentoring other developers so that they can achieve their full potential

Contributing within Opencast communities.

Ensure that work is carried out in accordance with Opencast's quality, environmental, and information security policies and procedures, as well as applicable customer policies, standards, and procedures while working on client.

We care about building things right. We believe in good devops practices and keeping things simple. We want to support you as much as we can on interiorising our approach to devops engineering and you supporting others.

We are proud consultants who combine our own experience and approach with our company values.

We are comfortable with new tech. We are empowered, cloud native, vendor agnostic devops engineers. We are empathetic, patient and care about quality.

We know when to pick our battles and how to manage expectations. We are humble, inclusive team players that listen and collaborate, with zero egos!

We’re always willing to teach and help others (inside or outside of our team). And we’re always willing to learn.

It’s a varied job that keeps you super technical and excited.

What our offer includes

A competitive pension, health cash plan, share options and discretionary bonus.

Flexible hours and 25 days' holiday.

People to support you every step of the way.

Where you’ll work

Your working time at Opencast will be split between multiple locations, including from our HQ and hub locations, client site or home. Travel is part of life at Opencast, and takes in account requirements of your work, our clients and your team.

We include you

We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all.

Interview

Job interviews are on Microsoft Teams. We’ll make any adjustments to help you.

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