Desired Skills and Experience

  • You are the Ops in DevOps: You know what DevOps stands for. You like spreading the knowledge behind software delivery, shared responsibility and infrastructure operations through close collaboration and pairing in cross-functional teams. You are a strong advocate within your team for writing clean code, designing and testing software systems and applying common infrastructure patterns.
  • You are hands-on: You are ready and willing to get involved from day one, building cutting edge infrastructure, using the latest technology in provisioning and configuration management including support services like monitoring, recovery and alerting.
  • You know how to work the cloud: You are very familiar and proficient in topics like virtualization, PaaS and IaaS. Resilience, performance and scalability are most important to you. You have a comprehensive and deep understanding of the architecture behind distributed, connected services and environments.
  • You are a servant leader: You have excellent communication skills and treat your peers with respect. You are a patient and resourceful coach and teaching others, to you, is as important as being taught.
  • You get the job done: You have an eagerness to learn enough about whatever tools and tricks are needed in order to accomplish your goal. You promote a lean and agile work environment through pragmatism and continuous improvement.
  • Virtualization: Docker, KVM/QEMU/XEN, VMWare, Virtualbox, Vagrant
  • Cloud/PaaS/IaaS: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google App/Compute Engine (GAE/GCE), Microsoft Azure, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, CloudFoundry, Openshift
  • Infrastructure provisioning/testing: Terraform, Chef, Puppet, Ansible, Saltstack, Habitat, Serverspec, Goss, InSpec
  • Programming languages: Java/Scale/Clojure, Golang, Rust, Ruby, Python, Shell scripting
  • Linux/Unix: Debian/Ubuntu, RedHat/CentOS
  • Continuous Delivery: GoCD, Jenkins, Teamcity, Bamboo, ConcourseCI
  • Web servers/Application servers: nginx, Apache, Traefik, Tomcat, Jetty
  • Databases: MySQL/MariaDB/PostgreSQL, Oracle, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis
  • Version control: Git, SVN
  • Using AWS with Security as a First Class Citizen
  • Using Pipelines to Manage Environments with Infrastructure as Code
  • Getting into DevOps: Part 1
  • You will be working with the best in the business: We are 4500 ThoughtWorkers, everyone different in their own way. It’s an immense pool of experience and knowledge all dedicated to the art of software delivery and you will be a part of it.
  • You can show us what you can do: You will work in a dynamic, collaborative, non-hierarchical environment where talent is valued over job titles or certificates.
  • You can stop careering and start contributing: You develop your career outside the confines of a traditional career path. You are responsible for your own decisions while ThoughtWorks supports your personal and professional growth through mentoring and challenging opportunities.
  • You won’t be catching dust: We have offices around the globe and we are working almost exclusively on customer site providing a mix of delivery and consulting services. You will be travelling a lot and picking up challenges at a wide variety of different locations.

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