Full-Time - Staff Cloud Infrastructure Consultant
Job Description
Cloud Infrastructure Consultant with a background in Amazon technologies focusing on solution design, networking, security and performance. The position requires a deep technical background in Microsoft technologies, focusing on the latest versions of Lync, Exchange, Office 365, Active Directory and supporting technologies. The Consultant reports to the State Manager and has key relationships with customer, internal Practice Leads, and the greater internal community.
Key purpose of the role
• As a Consultant you will participate in customer engagement activities, assisting the sales team through the sales cycle, including customer presentations and advising end-to-end technical solutions from design/delivery/implementation/deployment using the latest technologies helping customers with their on-premises or online deployment model.
• As a Consultant you will assist through multiple stages of a customer engagement cycle and will focus on creating immediate and lasting business value across the service lines, including:
o Initial customer engagement and pre-sales assistance
o Envisioning and Conceptual Solution design
o Detailed solution design and implementation
o Operational hand-over
• As a Consultant you will play an active role within the team by supporting both internal and external communities, along with having a passion for continual development of technical skills and knowledge.
• You will participate in customer engagement activities and assist the sales team through the sales cycle, including giving presentations to customers and contributing to proposals.
Key responsibilities
The role will focus on but not be limited to the following:
• Leading discussions with enterprise customers on the use of Cloud technologies and integration into new and existing customer infrastructure
• Accountability for all aspects of technical delivery
• Executing technical customer engagements, producing design and implementation documentation
• Implementing Microsoft technologies to achieve the customer’s objectives
• Continuing to develop technical capabilities and knowledge
• Being actively involved in contributing to our team community
• There is potential for interstate travel
Qualifications and Experience
• University Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience relevant to position
• Microsoft Certifications would be extremely beneficial
• Exposure to other Cloud technologies would also be well regarded and extremely beneficial.
• Experience in consulting environments
Technical Skills Requirements
• Must have 8-10 years’ experience in infrastructure., particularly networking, VPN and security
• Solution Architecture experience, whilst remaining hands on in an end-to-end capacity
• Extensive and demonstrated experience in building, configuring, designing enterprise grade networks, preferably within an AWS stack
• Strong knowledge of virtualization and cloud infrastructure technologies Strong knowledge of the complexities of migration and enterprise project exposure
• Experience in high scale/high availability web applications, including load testing and profiling, CDN (S3 & Cloudfront, ELB and AWS auto-scaling preferred)
• AWS Cloud Formation highly beneficial
• Exposure to various methodologies, best practices and technologies
• Experience in designing solutions for redundancy, failover and disaster recovery within a Windows and SQL Server environment, and ideally within an AWS multi AZ environment
• Demonstrated experience in building AWS cloud infrastructure
• Exposure to Azure, CloudStack or OpenStack well regarded
• Technical lead and management of multiple projects, define and understand customer problems, development of strategies
• Exceptional communication skills, high level of technical expertise and extremely passionate about technology
Soft Skills:
• Be able to work collaboratively with customers, co-workers and management. Capable of leading teams within complex projects
• A solid team player who looks to get the best out of everything that you do
• A self-sufficient professional, able to drive an end-to-end implementation at an enterprise level
• Teamwork – Work efficiently and effectively with the team to achieve group goals; work collaboratively to accomplish business results
• Action / initiative – Work to meet objectives, solving problems proactively or as required/requested.
• Decision Making/Judgment – Demonstrate the ability to make timely and effective decisions, and know when to escalate
• Quality of Work – Pay attention to detail and quality of work produced, ensuring excellence and always seeking ways to improve outputs
