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Junior Consultant

Capacitas
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About the role

As a Junior Consultant with Capacitas, you will be quickly utilised on client engagements, working as part of a project team with experienced and talented colleagues. You will most often be in a client facing role and the range of projects you work on will vary according to current demand and your professional development path. Typical projects include:

  • Automating through use of DevOps capability
  • Conducting systems risk management assessments
  • Performance audits
  • Designing performance test plans to address performance risk
  • Demand forecasting / planning
  • Development of capacity and performance models
  • Proactive system monitoring to identify performance risks
  • Looking for ways to reduce client money spent on IT performance

 

A day in the life of a Capacitas Junior Consultant includes:

  • Working as part of a team and independently to carry out technical work for project delivery
  • Participating in daily stand-up meetings with your project team
  • Working within a talented and experienced team, constantly developing technical delivery skills and delivering independently
  • Working with a project team, working efficiently to deliver to deadlines
  • Building an internal and external network, proactively reaching out to engage colleagues and client contacts
  • Identifying business opportunities for Capacitas within client account and more broadly where possible
  • Professionally representing Capacitas in conversation with clients
  • Preparing and participating in client presentations
  • Identifying opportunities to innovate and improve efficiency or quality of our internal processes
  • Following and, where appropriate, documenting company processes
  • Using your technical capability to update IP to augment our existing processes

 

About the applicant - to thrive in this role, it is important you:

1) Are motivated by:

  • An inherent desire to work in tech.
  • An inherent desire to work with, add value to, and satisfy clients.
  • An inherent desire to continuously learn and grow.
  • Working in a collaborative environment in which you support and are supported by others.

 

2) Show the following behaviors:

  • Enjoy seeking, building and maintaining relationships, demonstrating empathy and emotional intelligence in interpersonal interactions to build productive working relationships.
  • Demonstrate flexibility and adaptability in response to changing conditions and/or priorities.
  • Demonstrate resilience and persistence in the face of challenges, seeing setbacks as a positive opportunity for growth.
  • Are alert to market trends or occurrences and are able to consider how Capacitas and our clients may be impacted by these.
  • Confidence to try new things and challenge the status quo.
  • Actively listen and understand client and colleague needs.
  • Demonstrate curiosity about customers’ technical and business environments.
  • Share knowledge with others and reach out to others to ask for their expertise.
  • Seek challenging problems to solve.
  • Demonstrate ownership of own work.
  • Drive own development, seeking and pursuing opportunities for continuous growth.

 

3) Have the following experience and abilities:

Technical - essential

  • Have a computer science background
  • Interest in and willingness to develop monitoring skills, including basic and complex metric understanding, and familiarity with monitoring agents
  • Interest in and willingness to develop data analysis skills, including moving averages, CPU aggregation and normalising
  • Interest in and willingness to develop development skills, including automation and coding
  • Some understanding of IT infrastructure
  • Interest in and willingness to develop capacity planning and modelling skills
  • Interest in and willingness to develop cost optimisation skills
  • At least intermediate excel skills for data analysis, with willingness to learn advanced excel skills
  • At least intermediate powerpoint and word skills

 

Technical - Desirable 

  • Performance testing skills using HP, LoadRunner or Jmeter
  • Performance test design
  • Performance test automation skills
  • Have interest in and knowledge of the cloud and DevOps, especially AWS and Azure environments and supporting containerisation, though not necessarily experience in working with these
  • Have interest and knowledge in CI/CD processes and pipeline configuration using tools such as Jenkins
  • Have interest and knowledge in cloud infrastructure setup using tools such as Cloud Formation and Terraform
  • Have knowledge in VCS tools for storing and committing source code, such as GitHub

 

Other 

  • Communicates and presents clearly and professionally, contributing to team meetings
  • Able to apply a problem-solving mentality and approach
  • Manages time effectively, balancing priorities
  • Attention to detail
  • Is curious and able to understand customer requirements and business objectives
  • Is trust-worthy, reliable and approachable
  • Able to work effectively as part of a team and independently
  • Able to lead and motivate self, adhering to Capacitas values
  • Able to learn quickly
  • Willingness and ability to learn new technical tools
  • Actively seeks feedback to grow
  • Enables and drives own development
  • Networks internally and externally-    Uses social media to promote and support Capacitas
  • Is self-aware, considering own impact on others

 

Qualifications

2.1 degree (or equivalent), or an advanced degree ideally in computing, or one of the following areas plus a demonstrated knowledge of computing:

  • Sciences.
  • Engineering.
  • Mathematics.

OR

  • 2.1 bachelors or advanced degree from any discipline + demonstrated desire and aptitude, proven through work experience, to work in tech

 

Technical tools you may use as a Consultant

  • AWS, Azure.
  • Cost-explorer.
  • Cloudwatch.
  • APIs (further performance metrics).
  • Monitoring tools for CPU.
  • PRTG.
  • Zabex.
  • MatLab.
  • GitHub.
  • J-Meter.
  • Gatling.
  • Scripting and coding software.
  • PowerQuery.
  • PowerBI.

 

What our consultants most like about being a consultant at Capacitas

  • Working with people, as well as tech.
  • Sense of reward that comes from achieving deliverables.
  • Plenty of responsibility, which increases as you are ready for it.
  • Our supportive, collaborative and empowering culture.