Who You'll Work With
You are someone who thrives in a high-performance environment, bringing a growth mindset and entrepreneurial spirit to tackle meaningful challenges that have a real impact.In return for your drive, determination, and curiosity, we’ll provide the resources, mentorship, and opportunities to help you quickly broaden your expertise, grow into a well-rounded professional, and contribute to work that truly makes a difference.When you join us, you will have:
- Continuous learning: Our learning and apprenticeship culture, backed by structured programs, is all about helping you grow while creating an environment where feedback is clear, actionable, and focused on your development. The real magic happens when you take the input from others to heart and embrace the fast-paced learning experience, owning your journey.
- A voice that matters: From day one, we value your ideas and contributions. You’ll make a tangible impact by offering innovative ideas and practical solutions. We not only encourage diverse perspectives, but they are critical in driving us toward the best possible outcomes.
- Global community: With colleagues across 65+ countries and over 100 different nationalities, our firm’s diversity fuels creativity and helps us come up with the best solutions. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from exceptional colleagues with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
- Exceptional benefits: On top of a competitive salary (based on your location, experience, and skills), we provide a comprehensive benefits package to enable holistic well-being for you and your family.
Your Impact
You will be having deep experiences in practicing, role modeling and coaching teams in key areas of SRE related competencies Culture and Organization: You will champion CI/CD practices, the concept of error budgets and blameless post mortems.You will continuously help to remove team boundaries (dev, ops, others). Your advanced knowledge within the SRE chapter and practice will contribute back to the community within McK and beyond.You will be a full-stack engineer with DR/BCP experience, proficient in cloud-native models and in reliability engineering advisory, and have a strong knowledge of loosely coupled API based component architecture models.You will be proficient in SCM and CI/CD tooling and practices for container workloads, a variety of related developer workflows and principles, and master multiple programming and IaC languages.You will be a competent enabler of automated zero-downtime deployments. You will bring expertise in TDD principles and practices as well as key test automation tools and frameworks. You are well versed in chaos-engineering practices and in wheels-of-misfortune exercises.You will be seasoned in outcome-centric monitoring / measurement (cloud native log management and monitoring tools, SLOs, SLIs, error budgets, toil budgets etc. You will bring expertise in stakeholder specific reporting as well.You will work with our Secure Foundations - MCS team, which is part of McKinsey’s Tech Ecosystem organization, developing new products/services and integrating them into our client work.Our company is moving fast from the traditional IT world to a Digital era embracing Agile principles.We are looking for highly skilled developers with an SRE mindset to help us with this transformation. You will work in small teams (incl. product managers, developers and operations people) in a highly collaborative way, use the latest technologies and enjoy seeing the direct impact from your work.You will combine ‘Agile’ with expertise in cloud, big data and mobile to create and maintain custom solutions, in a way consistent with SRE principles, that will help clients increase productivity and make timely decisions. This includes, but is not limited to: Development, implementation and operation of IT systems, processes supporting SaaS applications and platforms, automation of provisioning, quality controls, security auditing and maintenance, and continuous measurement and improvement of efficiency of operational activities and resources.
Your Qualifications and Skills
- 5+ years of experience with software engineering best practice
- Proficiency in one or more programming languages, such as Python, JavaScript, Golang, or Ruby.
- Hands-on experience implementing infrastructure as code using Terraform, or similar automation tools like Ansible and CloudFormation
- Experience designing and building CI/CD pipelines using tools like GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, CircleCI, or Jenkins along with package management tools like Jfrog or Nexus
- Experience with public cloud environments, specifically AWS and either Azure or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Expertise with container technologies and orchestration tools, including Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, and service mesh solutions such as Linkerd or Istio
- Experience with infrastructure and reliability testing frameworks such as Test-Kitchen, AWSpec and InSpec
- Experience in managing front-end and back-end workloads such as React, TypeScript, Python, Node.js, Nginx, and API management tools like Apigee and AWS API Gateway
- Proficiency with databases such as Neo4j, Redis, PostgreSQL, and MongoDB.Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools such as Dynatrace, Splunk, CloudWatch, and other similar platforms like ELK, Prometheus, or Grafana
- Expertise in networking concepts, including prior experience managing CDN+WAF configurations in Akamai, Cloudflare, AWS CloudFront, and experience with VPCs, Load Balancers, and SSH tunnels
- Experience with Okta, Azure AD, Ping Identity, and other OIDC/OAuth2 providers and Implementing and managing RBAC for least-privilege access
- Proficiency with HashiCorp Vault for managing secrets and implementing token rotation
- Experience with SOC 2 audits, vulnerability management, and SSL certificate management
- Strong skills in developing technical documentation such as architecture diagrams, runbooks, and technical documents, with experience in complex platform migrations and managing multiple workstreams
