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7 months ago
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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 are currently looking for a DevOps Engineer to join our collaborative team, driving business transformations through strategic insights and agile engineering at an internet scale. Focusing on the ‘Dev’ in DevOps, you'll collaborate with clients across various sectors, implementing automation, continuous integration, and continuous delivery solutions. This role offers a unique opportunity to solve complex problems and deliver impactful digital transformations that drive real-world results.

Responsibilities

As a Consultant in our DevOps practice, you will be expected to:

  1. Contribute to the delivery team, working independently on complex tasks and applying your DevOps expertise to deliver high-quality work
  2. Support business development activities, including contributing to bids and proposals
  3. Develop innovative solutions to address client challenges and communicate those solutions to clients
  4. Build and maintain positive relationships with the client and your peers
  5. Focus on personal development and support peers through mentoring and knowledge sharing

Skills & Experience

Desirable skills include:

  1. Experience with at least one common programming or scripting language (e.g. Shell, Python, JavaScript)
  2. Knowledge and experience of common cloud services (i.e. one or more of AWS, Azure, GCP)
  3. Development of Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform)
  4. Implementation of CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, AWS CodePipeline, Azure DevOps, Google Cloud Build, Jenkins, Drone)
  5. Serverless technologies (e.g. AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, Azure Functions)
  6. Containerisation technologies (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift)
  7. Tools for logging, monitoring, alerting and observability (e.g. ELK, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana)
  8. Working knowledge of operating systems including CLI experience, deploying and configuring application or web servers

We are currently operating a discretionary hybrid working model which is designed to help you plan your work and your life. We want our people to come into the office at least two days a week.

Qualifications

We value real-world experience more highly than formal qualifications. However, if you do have any of the certifications below, we would be interested to hear from you.

Desirable qualifications or equivalent experiences would include:

  1. Cloud Architecture certifications (e.g. AWS Solution Architect – Associate, Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate, Google Cloud Certified – Professional Cloud Architect)
  2. Cloud DevOps certifications (e.g. AWS Certified Developer – Associate, Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Fundamentals, Google Cloud Professional DevOps Engineer)
  3. Linux certifications (e.g. LPIC-1)
  4. Kubernetes certifications (e.g. CKA)

PA offers a comprehensive technical training package to employees and will fund appropriate certification exam costs to support our cloud alliances.

We know the skill-gap and ‘somewhat need to tick every box’ can get in the way of meeting brilliant candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply – we’d love to hear from you.

Apply today by completing our online application

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 PAhere.

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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