DevOps Lead or Cloud Architect

MINIMUM (ESSENTIAL) REQUIREMENTS
• Strong verbal and written communications skills, with the ability to simply and 
clearly communicate technical design in conversation, documentation and 
presentation to a technical and non-technical audience.
• We all work in teams here in Kainos – You’ll need a proven experience of team 
leadership and supporting a DevOps culture in delivering complex projects.
• We are passionate about developing people – a demonstrated ability in 
managing, coaching and developing junior members of your team and wider 
community.
• Demonstrable personal ownership of:
o Building and operating modern digital service platform (or significant 
portions thereof) including architecture, estimation, planning, non-functional 
requirements and Continuous Improvement activities using modern agile 
techniques.
o Implementing robust security controls and monitoring solutions across 
infrastructure and application components.
o Making effective decisions within fast-moving delivery environments.
• Significant expertise in:
o Designing, building, testing, automating, monitoring and supporting modern 
digital service platforms in production environments.
o Utilizing the latest Continuous Delivery techniques for releasing operationally 
ready software to production.
o Use of automation tooling and proficient in one of the following: Powershell, 
Bash, Python, Ruby, Go, Groovy.
o Using public cloud platforms - including SaaS or PaaS offerings - to solve 
business problems (AWS or Azure).
• Demonstrable experience in:
o Using the latest container orchestration platforms including Kubernetes.
o Applying configuration management, infrastructure 
provisioning and automation tooling to solve business problems.