DevOps Engagement Consultant

Dedicated to sustainable development, Arup is a collective of designers, consultants and experts working globally.
At Arup you will have the opportunity to collaborate on ambitious projects - delivering remarkable outcomes for clients and communities, and to do socially useful work that has meaning.

Arup's purpose, shared values and collaborative approach has set it apart for over 75 years, and now is your opportunity to join.

AMS is a global workforce solutions partner committed to creating inclusive, dynamic, and future-ready workplaces. We help organisations adapt, grow, and thrive in an ever-evolving world by building, shaping, and optimising diverse talent strategies.

We partner with Arup to support their contingent recruitment processes. Acting as an extension of their recruitment teams, we connect them with skilled interim and temporary professionals, fostering workplaces where everyone can contribute and succeed.

On Behalf of Arup, we are looking for a DevOps Engagement Consultant for a 6 month contract fully remote within the UK.

Purpose of the role:

As a DevOps Subject Matter Expert/Consultant, you will work with Digital Services teams to guide on DevOps capabilities and continuous improvements in their Software Development Life cycle.

What you'll do:

• Work with services to understand their value chain, including design, build, delivery, and support activities.
• Seek out opportunities for process and technology standardisation across our Digital Services.
• Engage and consult with teams across the business who are planning to or have built digital products and services and advise both on DevOps practices and support models.
• Create and advocate standard practices to maintain deployment throughput, service reliability and learning culture.
• Align DevOps practices with the organisation's product engine, ensuring that delivery models support a product-centric approach.
• Foster and promote a product mindset within teams, encouraging ownership, life cycle thinking, and continuous improvement of digital products.
• Provide expert DevOps advisory to digital services teams, supporting them in adopting best practices, modern tooling, and scalable processes for product delivery.
• Collaborate with product owners and engineering leads to embed DevOps principles throughout the product life cycle, from ideation to operation.

The skills you'll need:

• Excellent understanding of DevOps and its role in delivering value and previous experience in an advisory role related to DevOps.
• Ability to build strong stakeholder relationships in a global firm across multiple teams.
• Strong working knowledge of AWS (Amazon Web Services) or Azure.
• Hands on experience with tools such as Azure DevOps, GitHub.
• Creating and scaling DevOps pipelines to build, scan, test and deploy code to various production and preproduction environments.
• Staying up to date with SRE best practices and informing Tech and Engineering leadership on best alternatives for tooling choices.
• Ability to analyse bottlenecks in existing architectures and suggest solutions.
• Ability to work independently with minimal assistance.

About the client

Arup is an equal opportunity employer that actively promotes and nurtures a diverse and inclusive workforce. Guided by its values and alignment with the UN Sustainable Development Goals, Arup creates and contributes to equitable spaces and systems, while cultivating a sense of belonging for all. Arup's internal employee networks support their inclusive culture: from race, ethnicity and cross-cultural working to gender equity and LGBTQ+ and disability inclusion - creating a space for everyone to express themselves and make a positive difference.

If you are interested in applying for this position and meet the criteria outlined above, please click the link to apply and speak to one of our Sourcing Specialists.

AMS are committed to providing all our candidates with the opportunity to perform at their best throughout the recruitment process. Please let us know if you require any additional support or reasonable adjustments during the screening process and we will work with you and Arup to identify the best solution to meet your requirements.
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