GitHub / GitOps Strategy Consultant

GitHub / GitOps Strategy Consultant

Location: Remote (occasional travel as required)
Duration: 6 Months
Start: ASAP
Rate: Up to £900 per day (Umbrella Engagement)

The Opportunity

We're supporting a leading UK financial services organisation on a major GitHub and GitOps transformation programme and are seeking an experienced GitHub / GitOps Strategy Consultant to help shape the adoption approach.

This is a strategic and architecture-led engagement focused on assessing, governing and planning the rollout of a GitHub-based self-service operating model across the organisation. You'll work closely with Programme Management, Enterprise Architecture, Security and wider technology teams to evaluate the solution, define the adoption roadmap and provide recommendations around governance, migration and best practice.

Key Responsibilities

• Assess the suitability of a GitHub-based GitOps operating model within a large enterprise environment
• Define adoption, governance and implementation recommendations
• Evaluate repository, pipeline and code migration requirements
• Produce architecture, assessment and implementation documentation
• Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture, Security and Delivery stakeholders
• Drive standards, best practices and platform governance across the GitOps workstream
• Provide strategic guidance throughout the programme lifecycle

Required Experience

• Strong experience with GitHub Enterprise, GitOps, GitHub Actions and platform automation
• Knowledge of Identity Governance (IGA), Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and TypeScript
• Experience delivering platform, DevOps or GitOps transformations within large, regulated organisations
• Strong stakeholder management and communication skills
• Background in software engineering, platform engineering, DevOps or cloud technologies
• Experience operating at architecture, strategy or technology leadership level
• Ability to own and lead a workstream across multiple business and technology teams

Reasonable Adjustments:

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