Consultant - Devops

At Ensono, our purpose is to be a relentless ally, disrupting the status quo and unleashing our clients to Do Great Things! We enable our clients to achieve key business outcomes that reshape how our world runs. As an expert technology adviser and managed service provider with cross-platform certifications, Ensono empowers our clients to keep up with continuous change and embrace innovation.

We help our clients think and do, delivering strategy and software engineering that gives them the confidence to take on their toughest challenges and improve the lives of their people and customers.

We have worked on a variety of projects from cloud service integrations, building Data Lake and Microservice platforms, through to building apps, voice recognition platforms and offering digital strategy consulting. We have worked across several industries, with clients including Screwfix, Next, Travel Lodge a Gym Group.

We are ranked 8th in the UK's Best Workplace 2022 list, 30th on the E-consultancy Top 100 Digital Agencies 2019 list (7th in the Technical Agencies list) and recent winners of Best Cloud Native Project and Best Digital Services Company of the Year at the International Cloud Awards.

About the role and what you'll be doing

This will be a hands-on technical role as one of our DevOps Consultants. You will be joining a cross-functional team of highly skilled and like-minded individuals, helping establish DevOps best practices on your project and assisting the client in realising the business benefit of an investment in the cloud.

You will be working across the full project lifecycle and on a day-to-day basis, you will be working with the client and your fellow Ensono team members to uncover problems and ultimately solve them using cloud-native technologies, modern techniques, and software. You might also be involved in presenting technical topics to your team or coaching more junior colleagues.

Ensono  has a diverse set of communities, as well as your core competency, that you'll be encouraged to contribute to and learn from, where projects and client commitments allow.

You will be a self-starter, proactive in your project work and your career, including identifying your development needs and planning to fill them with the help of your training budget.

What you'll bring to Ensono:

We are looking for passionate DevOps Engineers who have a proactive attitude and can interact effectively within a team. You will also need the following skills and experience: 

• Creating CI/CD pipelines from scratch, using one of the following: Azure DevOps, Jenkins, GitLab, TravisCI or CircleCI
• Working with the cloud commercially with either Azure, AWS or GCP
• Implementing basic pipeline steps to provide security governance (i.e. OSWASP ZAP, SonarQube, etc)
• Contributing to changes for existing reusable pipeline templates (Jenkins, Azure DevOps, CircleCI) and infrastructure modules (Terraform, Ansible)
• Working with containers and Kubernetes 
• Ability to follow code and an understanding of stack traces written in languages such as Java, C# and NodeJS
• Great communication skills, in particular: presenting, collaborating and working with stakeholders
• Understanding business and client requirements and an ability to articulate solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences

What we can offer you:

We will give you a place to strive and grow, where you will have the opportunity to work on interesting, yet challenging projects. Applying your thinking to build a better world founded on intelligent technologies.

We are a people-first business, which means people are at the heart of everything we do here. We offer our consultants a safe environment where knowledge sharing, and open communication is encouraged. Whether at one of the internal monthly events, such as Lunch & Learns, Tech Time, and internal competency meet-ups, or at one of our community groups, such as football, gaming, yoga, or wellbeing; we have strived to build a business where everyone feels welcomed, included, and valued.

• Competitive base with uncapped commission
• 27 days annual leave (plus bank holidays)
• 1/2 day on your birthday
• Sabbatical options at 5 & 10 years
• Discretionary bonus
• Up to 5 days study leave and 10+ training vendors
• Generous company pension
• Private healthcare for you and your family 
• Payroll giving
• Enhanced parental and dependent leave
• Equity appreciation program and incentive plan
• Life and income protection
• Additional benefits such as discounted gym memberships, cycle scheme, EAP (Employee Assistance Programme) and more!

If this all sounds great, we would love to hear from you!