Job Description
Key Role & Responsibility:
This is a client facing role in the project delivery cycle. This role will work closely with clients, partners and other business units to ensure consulting engagements are successful. The role is responsible for understanding the client’s business needs and clearly translating the Statement of Work to the successful delivery of the Project. The candidate will be expected to work as part of a delivery team, working alongside overall project manager to deliver a successful cloud consulting engagement.
• Proven experience in cloud infrastructure project deals for cloud assessments and cloud migrations
• Strong client facing skills and a good listener. Ability to push a point/right solution to different stakeholders (both technical and non-technical)
• A strong background in end to end infrastructure technologies and architecture, ideally from more than one company
• Project delivery for application discovery service both agent and agentless. Provide application modelling.
• AZURE expertise gained from production application deployment, proven experience of delivering complex cloud project engagements
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills; excellent presentation and facilitation skills;
• Possess the ability to clearly articulate the pros and cons of technology choices and solution design decisions and to construct and present rational options to clients and prospective clients on the options they have;
• Comfortable facilitating group discussions and leading client strategy and design activities; able to translate client needs and opportunities into architecture specifications that can be referred to by the analyst, development and migration teams;
• Have a focus on getting the job done and done properly;
• Be willing to learn, grow and stretch into new roles and different industries/domains;
• Have a fully-flexible approach to working hours and working away from home during the week; willing to work nationally, with the potential to work internationally if desired.
Essential skills, knowledge & experience:
They include the ability to understand and communicate the following at an executive level both internally and externally:
• Azure Architecture experience ideally with the appropriate vendor certification
• Understanding of hybrid cloud solutions and experience of integrating public cloud into tradition hosting/delivery models
• Strong understanding of cloud migration techniques (on premise to Cloud Platforms)
• Configuration and deployment experience in three or more of the following:
– Azure IaaS Technologies and App Services
– Deployed applications with Web UI frontends
– Deployed application with RESTful/SOAP services interfaces
– Experience building private AMI’s on VPC’s
– High Availability and Disaster recovery implementations
– Experience of designing and implementing application and infrastructure monitoring solutions
• Experience architecting and deploying multi-tiered applications.
• Experience in architecting security architectures across infrastructure and applications
• Experience building and deploying multi-tier, scalable, and highly available applications using Java, Microsoft and Database technologies
• Experience in performance tuning, including the following ; (load balancing, web servers, content delivery Networks, Caching (Content and API))
• Experience as principal technical lead on at least one major project.
• Good understanding of application architectures
• Demonstrable experience in the elicitation & specification of architectural, functional and non-functional requirements
• A good appreciation of the cost drivers in systems delivery and operations and the commercial consequences of the technical decisions made by you and/or others
• Ability to develop productive client relationships at different management levels and identify and develop opportunities for new business
Desirable skills, knowledge & experience:
• Azure trained / certified architect
• Architectural certification (e.g TOGAF)
• Experience of implementing architectural governance and proactively managing issues and risks throughout the delivery lifecycle.
• Good familiarity with the disciplines of enterprise software development such as configuration & release management, source code & version controls, and operational considerations such as monitoring and instrumentation
• Experience of consulting or service provider roles (internal, or external);
• Strong knowledge on software development methodologies like Agile/Scrum, Kan Ban etc. Broad understanding of enterprise project lifecycle
• A good degree-level education is highly desirable
• Team lead and programme or project management experience
• Experience using database technologies like Oracle, MySQL is required and understanding of NoSQL, MongoDB is preferred.
• ISO27001/2 certification
• Redshift / Data warehouse experience
• Extensive automation experience with either Chef or Puppet
• Experience in designing or implementing data warehouse solutions is highly preferred.
• DevOps experience
Contact:
Email: [email protected]
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