IT Consultant - DevOps at Sirius Computer Solutions (Philadelphia, PA)

**Open East Coast Location + 50% Average Travel**

As a nationally recognized IT solutions provider with an over 37-year history of success, Sirius is known for cultivating the best talent, providing a positive work environment, and offering a compensation and benefits package designed to help our employees thrive both personally and professionally. We deliver best-of-breed IT solutions from the world's top technology innovators, including Checkpoint, Cisco, Citrix, DellEMC, F5, FireEye, HDS, HP, IBM, NetApp, Nutanix, Palo Alto, VMware, and many more. If you want to work with the Brightest Minds in the Business, contact us today.

Position Summary:  

IT Consultants are a Sirius field resource who use technical and industry experience to create client value. They work in collaboration with the sales team to clearly understand client business and technology requirements. Using established solution frameworks, IT Consultants provide both pre-sales and billable client consulting. They work with Sirius technology teams to craft client solutions and speed time-to-sale by architecting solutions that meet requirements, minimize deployment risk, and enhances client business value.

Primary Duties & Responsibilities:

• Participate in or lead DevOps sales efforts inclusive of customer meetings, white board briefing sessions, discovery sessions, workshops, writing Statements of Work, and budgeting

• Lead or participate in DevOps Consulting billable engagements

• Work with Client Executives and partners to develop Sirius DevOps sales opportunities

• Participate in DevOps Consulting engagements as an individual contributor developing deliverables such as assessments, workshops, strategies, roadmaps, and solution end states in detailed and executive level format

• Lead multi-discipline teams and integration efforts across the company in sales and billable engagement efforts

• Develop and deliver research or value added intellectual collateral in the DevOps field to customers and/or Sirius in selected industries or technical disciplines

• Provide technical architecture oversight, design risk mitigation, and/or integration for customer engagements that include multiple integrated practice solutions

• Be recognized within Sirius and by customer for expertise in a selected industry(ies) and IT discipline (s) of consultant choice that falls within Sirius portfolio

• Perform generalist and Hybrid Cloud (DC) Transformation Consulting on an as needed basis in the local geography

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelors Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Business or a related field

• Minimum ten (10) years IT systems design and development and/or engineering and implementation experience, to include a minimum two (2) years IT Management experience

• Experience developing, testing and deploying  production IT Services via an Agile methodology

• Experience delivering DevOps services

• Demonstrated skills in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, etc.)

Other Position Requirements:

• Str
• o
  • n
  • g functional understanding of the following technologies and their associated tools and vendors:

• CI/CD including pipeline, workflow, and deployment tools

• Automation and Configuration Management (IaC) (On-Prem/Public Cloud/Hybrid)

• Containerization and CaaS (On-Prem/Public Cloud/Hybrid)

• Source Code and Artifact Repositories, including best practices for implementation and use

• Subject Matter Expertise (SME) in DevOps Automation (CI/CD, Containers, Infrastructure as Code, Agile)

• Enjoys learning and a collegial team-oriented environment

• Demonstrated ability to take initiative

• Demonstrated skills in facilitating diverse client and vendor technical resource teams to realize a fully integrated IT service solution

• Proven collaboration and team skills

• Demonstrated documentation, presentation, and proposal development skills

• Demonstrated ability to multitask and to prioritize workload under tight deadlines in a fast-paced environment

• Demonstrated ability to work under minimal supervision, independently and/or as a member of a project team

• Subje
• ct Matter Expertise (SME) in one or more of the following industries: Manu
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  • acturing Financial Services
• • Healthcare
  • Retail
  • Insurance
  • Education
  • Publishing
  • Ecommerce
  • Gaming
  • Other Industries considered as well

Data Privacy and Security:

• All Sirius employees are responsible to safeguard the information and information systems that they use or handle in the execution of their duties. Employees are obligated to know and perform their duties in accordance with Sirius policies, standards, and procedures related to security and report security violations to the appropriate Sirius authority.
• Participate at hire and annually in the Information Security Awareness training as well as other required training identified by the Human Resources department. Other data privacy and data security related regulatory training may be required based on your role or assignment.

Essential Functions

The position exists to provide technical consulting solutions to customers and as such requires the ability to travel to and from customer sites and interact with customers on an ongoing and regular basis.

The above primary duties, responsibilities, and position requirements are not all inclusive.

Sirius is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity. As a government contractor, Sirius takes affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified women, minorities, individuals with disabilities, and protected veterans; maintains a drug-free workplace; and participates in E-Verify.

Individuals who receive job offers will be required to complete pre-employment screening that includes a background check verifying name, residences, education, work experience, and criminal convictions consistent with the Fair Credit Reporting Act; and a drug test for controlled substances consistent with the Drug-Free Workplace Act and the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Sirius will not sponsor work eligibility for this position.
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