Senior Consultant/Manager en Platform Engineering, SRE et DevOps

About Wavestone

Join an international consulting firm that supports major strategic transformations. We are Wavestone: passionate, solution-oriented experts who place people at the heart of performance and growth. Ambitious and in full expansion, we are constantly developing our portfolio of clients and projects, with an international reach and a real desire to generate a positive impact. Are you a true team player, driven by strong values? Are you curious and determined, with a desire to learn every day? Are you the type to take on challenges without hesitation? Then you are in the right place. Join Wavestone and express your potential in a stimulating and collaborative environment, where we transform today's challenges into tomorrow's opportunities.

Job Description

Within the Wavestone CTO Advisory business unit, responsible for supporting CTOs in their IT transformation, you will be attached to the "Cloud Forward" team. This team of over 200 consultants and experts addresses numerous loyal major clients through Cloud missions and generates over 35 million euros in annual revenue. It offers advanced training and support paths, notably through a community of international experts and partnerships with major hyperscalers (AWS, Azure, GCP, Bleu, S3NS, OVH...). The uniqueness of our positioning lies in our ability to provide end-to-end support, combining consulting know-how to assist our clients in the upstream phases of their projects with cutting-edge technological expertise that allows us to support them through to the deployment of their solutions in production and the optimization of their practices. Furthermore, you will benefit from close career monitoring, enabling rapid advancement within the firm: proximity management, continuous training, and obtaining certifications.

Your missions:

As a Senior Consultant/Manager in Platform Engineering, SRE, and DevOps, you will support our clients in industrializing their cloud and DevOps transformation, in a context of increasing complexity of their infrastructures, by integrating practices such as SRE and Platform Engineering for successful scaling. This includes defining strategy, designing and implementing automated platforms, and supporting teams through change. You will also actively participate in the development of the firm's Cloud value proposition.

Lead client missions:

• Support our clients, from CTO to CEO level, in defining their DevOps and platform automation strategy.
• Assess our clients' maturity (tools, processes, organization) and propose pragmatic recommendations to optimize infrastructure or application development and deployment processes.
• Design complex engineering platform architectures (Platform Engineering) for deploying infrastructures and applications: self-service, secure, cost-controlled, etc.
• Manage complex transformation projects: implementing automated platforms, supporting practice adoption, transforming the operational model, industrializing through a library of reusable templates, etc.
• Organize and lead a team of consultants and experts, being responsible for the end-to-end execution of the support approach.
• Support the upskilling of client teams through awareness and communication actions on DevOps, SRE, and Cloud-native best practices.
• Define and implement the operational model for these platforms, anticipating necessary evolutions driven by increasing infrastructure complexity. The integration of SRE and the evolution towards a Platform Engineering model implies organizational changes to consider.
• Manage relationships with suppliers and partners: supplier selection, contract negotiation, etc.

Participate in the development of the offer and practice:

• Enrich the firm's convictions around DevOps, SRE, and Platform Engineering topics through expertise, active technological watch, feedback, or article writing.
• Actively participate in the commercial dynamics of the practice by identifying new business opportunities, designing and conducting commercial proposals, and participating in client presentations on these topics.
• Actively contribute to practice development actions (business unit performance management, recruitment...) and contribute to the firm's reputation (publications, development of convictions and expertise on our offers).
• Support the upskilling of younger collaborators on DevOps topics.

Qualifications

Expertise and experience:

• You have significant experience in managing DevOps transformations or implementing automated infrastructure platforms.
• You have a deep mastery of DevOps concepts and practices (continuous integration, continuous delivery, infrastructure as code, monitoring, SRE, etc.).
• You have experience in designing and implementing CI/CD pipelines with tools such as Jenkins, Github Actions, GitLab CI, etc.
• You master Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, Ansible.
• You master Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and their associated services.
• You have a good knowledge of container orchestration systems such as Kubernetes and Docker.
• You have a good knowledge of monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Datadog, etc.).
• You have an appetite for innovative topics such as GenAI.

Soft skills:

• You have experience in team management and complex project leadership.
• You demonstrate a collective spirit and a desire to transmit your know-how and skills to our offer collaborators.
• You have strong interpersonal skills with top management stakeholders.

Languages:

• You speak fluent English in the context of your professional activities.

Additional Information

YOUR BENEFITS

By joining Wavestone, you will benefit from:

• Career model: a tailor-made career, which means for us opportunities for individual development. Our Wavestone Horizon allows for rapid evolution of your career path and salary dynamics.
• Further training: let's grow together You have access to a vast catalog of training and certifications (cloud, DevOps, GenAI, etc.) for continuous learning.
• Smartworking: flexible and mobile work is part of our DNA and provides an adequate framework for collaboration.
• A Great Place To Work: we are recognized as Great Place To Work 2025, ranking number one in our category among organizations with over 2500 employees (France).
• Mindfulness & health: mindfulness programs, sports cooperation, internal fitness groups...

Wavestone is an inclusive employer committed to equal opportunities. As part of this diversity and inclusion policy, Wavestone supports people with disabilities and/or requiring accommodation during their recruitment process and upon joining the company.