DevOps Consultant | Harness London

Overview

In this role you will lead the Harness platform transformation to enable modern software delivery at scale. You will design and optimize enterprise CI/CD architectures, migrating legacy toolchains and embedding security governance. You’ll work with cross‑functional teams to implement AI‑driven automation and governance across Cyn Harness modules. This is a hands‑on leadership role that blends architecture, delivery excellence, and strategic pre‑sales support to accelerate digital transformation.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, implementation, and optimization of CI/CD pipelines using the Harness platform for enterprise delivery, security, and compliance.
• Architect end‑to‑end delivery workflows across Harness modules (CI, CD, STO, Chaos Engineering, CCM, AI‑driven capabilities).
• Manage Harness Delegate installations, upgrades, and integrations across cloud and on‑prem environments.
• Collaborate with DevOps, Platform, Security, and AppDev teams to define scalable CI/CD patterns and reusable templates.
• Onboard applications to Harness, including assessments, pipeline configuration, troubleshooting, and modernization (containerization, IaC).
• Integrate security scanners via STO and enforce governance with OPA policies.
• Leverage Harness AI Agents to automate triaging, self‑healing, remediation, and policy‑driven decisions.
• Develop AI‑powered automation patterns and automation assets for consistent delivery across teams.
• Drive adoption of additional Harness modules (IDP, Feature Management, Chaos Engineering, Engineering Insights).
• Conduct capability assessments, architecture enhancements, and contribute to CI/CD transformation roadmaps.
• Establish progressive delivery standards (blue‑green, canary, rolling deployments, automated rollback).
• Support pre‑sales activities including PoCs, demos, estimations, and proposals.
• Develop reusable automation assets, templates, and documentation for consistent execution.
• Configure and manage infrastructure for pipelines (Kubernetes, VMs, artifact repos, Git platforms, cloud services).
• Ensure security, performance, scalability, and quality best practices across CI/CD and DevSecOps.
• Mentor teams, deliver enablement sessions, and promote continuous learning on Harness capabilities.
• Stay current with Harness features to improve delivery blueprints and standards.

Key requirements

• Over 12 years in DevOps, CI/CD engineering, or platform engineering.
• 3+ years hands‑on with Harness (CI, CD, STO, Chaos, CCM).
• Designing enterprise CI/CD pipelines; Kubernetes container orchestration.
• Git workflows (GitHub, GitLab, ADO); YAML, shell scripting, Python.
• Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP); Terraform, Helm, or similar IaC tools.
• Solid DevSecOps understanding, OPA policy creation, and compliance frameworks.
• Hands on with Harness AI Agents (policy enforcement, insights, automated decisions).
• Preferred: experience with large‑scale modernization/migration (e.g., Jenkins to Harness).
• Exposure to enterprise AppSec workflows and STO integration; Chaos Engineering with Harness.

• High analytical skills
• Initiative and flexibility
• Customer orientation
• Harness Software Delivery Platform (CI, CD, STO, Chaos, CCM)
• Kubernetes and container orchestration
• Git workflows (GitHub, GitLab, ADO)