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About Us
Ascent has recently been acquired by Acuity Analytics. This is both a significant milestone for us and a tremendous opportunity for you. Acuity Analytics is a business with a strong global reputation, an impressive client base and ambitious growth plans. We delivers deep insights and domain-led digital transformation to high-growth and heavily regulated organisations. To our customers, we bring a partnership that provides the talent, technology and capability to enhance performance and operational efficiency.
About the role
We are seeking a Senior DevOps Consultant – GitHub Specialist (SME/Administrator) to lead the design, management, and optimization of our enterprise GitHub environment. In this role, you will leverage your deep expertise in GitHub Enterprise to drive scalable, secure, and efficient development operations across the organization.
You will work closely with engineering teams, security, and leadership stakeholders to establish governance frameworks, implement security controls, and promote best practices that enhance developer productivity and code management. This is a highly technical and collaborative role, ideal for someone who thrives on solving complex infrastructure challenges and shaping enterprise-level DevOps strategy.
Skills and qualifications
Must-Have Technical Skills
- Proven experience administering GitHub Enterprise within large-scale or complex organizational environments.
- Strong knowledge of GitHub governance, including organization and repository structures, access control, and change management processes.
- Hands-on expertise with GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) features such as code scanning, secret scanning, and dependency management.
- Experience with identity and access management solutions, including SSO integration (e.g., Entra ID/Azure AD or equivalent platforms).
- Solid understanding of DevOps principles and practical experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation workflows.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to assess current environments, identify gaps, and recommend effective improvements.
Good-to-Have Technical Skills
- Experience in repository migration from legacy source code management systems (e.g., Bitbucket, GitLab, or SVN).
- Knowledge of repository lifecycle management, including archival, tagging, and categorization strategies.
- Familiarity with project management and collaboration tools such as the Atlassian suite (Jira, Confluence, etc.).
- Broader exposure to DevSecOps practices or cloud-native environments (Azure, AWS, or GCP). \
Why join us?
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What We Do
Ascent is a design-led software, data and cloud business that specialises in advanced analytics and AI. We design, build and manage cloud-native products, solutions, platforms and experiences on Azure. Our community of engineers, architects, data scientists, experience designers and consultants is here to help customers do something new, or do something better. Ascent is home to 450+ technology specialists across 5 key European locations (UK, Germany, Portugal, Malta and Bulgaria). Our talented, consultative teams deliver a range of solutions, from digital product and service design to mobile app development, API integrations, data engineering, AI and data science. Our modern app, data and infrastructure platforms help businesses leave legacy behind and enable rapid, efficient innovation
