£50K/yr to £90K/yr
Trafford, England
Permanent, Variable

Cloud Consultant - DV Cleared

Posted by Sanderson.

All applicants must hold a UK Security clearance to SC or DV level to apply.

Key consulting skills including a number of the following:

  • Strong ability to provide thought-through, clearly articulated, pragmatic solutions and recommendations to complex business problems.
  • Demonstrated ability to prioritise work load, meet project deadlines, and drive results
  • Ability to communicate complex / technical issues to non-technical audiences
  • Management of teams and deliverables
  • Vendor/product assessment and selection
  • Assessment of applications for technical suitability for migration to Cloud

We are looking for Candidates with skills and experience in one of the following areas:

Cloud Consulting

  • Helping clients navigate the end to end journey for cloud infrastructure and engineering, including:
  • Defining and delivering a Cloud Strategy and Operating Model that aligns to and underpins business, technology and/or digital strategies
  • Developing the Business Case for investment in cloud
  • Selecting the right products and services for a solution
  • Leading stand up meetings
  • Architecting and delivering on the platform
  • Understanding the leading cloud technologies and the key cloud challenges?
  • Providing an authoritative point of view on how cloud influences and enables emerging technology trends
  • Growing relationships, experience, practice and maintaining our position as market leaders with key integration vendors such as AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform
  • Working effectively in diverse teams within an inclusive team culture where people are recognised for their contribution.

Cloud Architecture & Engineering

  • Cloud technologies and services (AWS / Azure / Google Cloud Platform / OCI)
  • Container technologies (e.g. Docker, Rocket) and their associated orchestration engines (Kubernetes / OpenShift / Rancher / Swarm)
  • Infrastructure as code development (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, ARM, GCP CDM)
  • Running and using Cloud automation tooling including Continuous Integration & Deployment
  • DevOps philosophies and toolchains such as continuous integration and delivery
  • Linux and windows system implementation and management using automation frame works such as Ansible, Salt Stack, Puppet, PowerShell etc.
  • Application deployment and testing tool chains such as Jenkins, SVN, GitHub
  • Knowledge of security and performance considerations and approaches for digital systems, and exposure to security and performance testing process
  • Experience helping clients define technical and non-functional requirements
  • Cloud environment design and implementation