We're Synechron, a global consultancy Laser-focused on accelerating digital initiatives in financial services. With over 14,500 members of staff across 17 countries and a unique mix of end-to-end digital, business and technology services, we help clients solve complex challenges with modern and innovative solutions.

We're big enough to be taken seriously, yet small enough to operate with an agile, open, relationship-driven approach. Our clients come to us with problems that need genuine thought, intelligence and knowledge; we're not just putting bodies on seats.

The Role:

Manage a team that will work to improve the deployment and operations processes related to container orchestration platforms (Tanzu Application Service).
Play an integral role in ensuring our platforms are secure, resilient, and reliable, helping to reduce the toil required by this activity.
Develop automation, providing support to platform users, building the skills of other team members, responding to incidents and performing platform operations in general.

Requirements:

Knowledge of container orchestration platforms (Tanzu Application Service).
Knowledge of Kubernetes is desirable.
Experience automating platform operations including deployment, upgrading, provisioning (onboarding) and maintenance activities.
Software engineering expertise including strong proficiency in Python, Go or other languages.
Consulting experience related to helping others gains platform engineering and software engineering skills.
Incident response skills including platform and application problem diagnosis and resolution.
Experience with Terraform, Concourse.
Experience with monitoring systems such as Datadog, Splunk and Log Insight.
Candidates preferably willing and able to participate in On-Call.
Based in the UK, working UK hours with colleagues mostly in UK, but also in CN, IN, US and HK.
Experience of managing an engineering team supporting business critical production services.

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Synechron are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative Same Difference' is committed to fostering an inclusive culture - promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We offer flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programmes to support our global workforce. Empowerment and collaboration are at the core of how we operate.

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