Careers

Small enough that the work has your name on it.

Klyvant is building a senior team where nobody is a resource on a plan. If you have spent your career being handed other people's designs to implement, this is the other side of that.

The premise

We hire people who have been on site at three in the morning. It shows in the design work.

The company runs on a structural promise to clients: the person who scopes the work is accountable for it running. That promise only holds if the people making it have personally lived with the consequences of a bad architecture decision.

So the hiring bar is frontline experience rather than credential count. We would rather have someone who has restored a production platform under pressure than someone who has read extensively about doing it.

In return the work is unmediated. You talk to the client, you hold the technical position, and you are not asked to defend a recommendation you did not make.

Open positions

Four senior roles, recruiting now

These are the functions being built out as the practice scales. Each is a single accountable position rather than a seat in a team.

What you would own

  • Delivery scheduling and resourcing across concurrent engagements
  • The cutover calendar and the rehearsal schedule
  • Vendor coordination during staged deployments
  • Keeping a phased programme moving when a change window slips

What we are looking for

  • Delivery leadership on enterprise infrastructure programmes
  • Experience holding a schedule against a client operations team
  • Comfort saying a date is not safe yet
  • Banking, aviation or public sector exposure preferred
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What you would own

  • Target architecture across cloud, storage, recovery and power
  • Accuracy of the estate inventory before any design is drawn
  • Design assurance and technical standards
  • The rollback position on every cutover

What we are looking for

  • Deep multi-cloud, Software-Defined Storage or hyperconverged experience
  • Recovery design on platforms such as Veeam and VMware
  • A record of designs that survived contact with production
  • Willingness to recommend keeping the incumbent platform
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What you would own

  • Commercial structure and engagement pricing
  • Cost modelling behind energy and infrastructure recommendations
  • Procurement support, so proposals survive a client finance review
  • Contract governance across project and managed service work

What we are looking for

  • Professional services or technology consultancy finance background
  • Comfort modelling multi-year managed service contracts
  • Experience with public sector or regulated procurement
  • Ability to price work that has genuine delivery risk in it
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What you would own

  • The first conversation, and qualifying honestly
  • Making sure the engagement sold is the one that can be delivered
  • Sector relationships across banking, aviation and government
  • Proposal build alongside the accountable engineer

What we are looking for

  • Enterprise technology sales with a technical foundation
  • A history of qualifying out work that would not serve the client
  • West African market relationships
  • No interest in carrying a quota that distorts the advice
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Nothing here that fits?

We read speculative applications properly, because the roles above are the ones we have written down rather than the only ones we need. If you are a senior infrastructure, recovery or energy engineer, send what you have worked on and what went wrong on it. That second part is the more useful half.

What the work is actually like

Four things worth knowing before you apply

01

You are in the room

Client conversations are not filtered through an account manager. You hear the constraint directly, which is also why you cannot blame the brief afterwards.

02

The estate is always worse than described

Every engagement starts with discovery that contradicts the asset register. If undocumented infrastructure frustrates you rather than interests you, this will be a long few years.

03

You will say no to clients

Recommending the incumbent platform, or refusing a cutover date, is part of the job. The company only works if the people doing it are willing to hold that line.

04

Work happens in change windows

Cutovers land at night and at weekends because that is when the operation can absorb them. It is not constant, but it is real and we would rather say so now.

Terms

BasisPermanent, senior, single accountable positions
LocationLagos, Nigeria, with travel to client sites across West Africa
RegionalAccra, Ghana, considered for architecture roles
Working patternOffice and client site, with cutover work in scheduled change windows
ProcessA technical conversation, a working session on a real estate problem, then a decision
Applications[email protected], with the role in the subject line