Azure Cloud Consultant £80k- (30% Travel, North West)

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Azure Cloud Consultant £80k- (30% Travel, North West)

No more than 30% travel a week to customer sites across the UK but mostly the North West and the Midlands. The role is Delivery and post-sales focused but pre-sales responsibilities can be included In the role for those interested.

Consultants will work in customer facing environments with:

* Microsoft's solution areas, technologies and products in diverse client environments.

* Integrated solutions using the latest Microsoft products and technologies.

* Implemented cloud-based solutions and migrated workloads to the cloud.

Desired project Experience in:

* Senior support experience with cloud infrastructure.

* Architecture, design, implementation, and/or support of highly distributed applications (i.e. having an architectural sense for ensuring availability, reliability, etc).

* Migrating workloads to the cloud.

* Consulting experience in technical sales and deployment projects.

* Strong written and oral communication skills to present to stakeholders. Ability to drive decisions collaboratively and resolve conflicts.

Desired Technical Skills and Experience in:

* Cloud computing technologies, business drivers and emerging computing trends.

* Infrastructure design including private and public cloud, networking, virtualization, identity, security and storage.

* Experience with Azure IaaS and Cloud Infrastructure tools such as Azure Site Recovery, Back-Up (as a Service), Data Center Migrations (Azure Lift & Shift), Azure vNet and Networking

* Automation/scripting experience with PowerShell/Bash/Java and ideally ARM Templates, Terraform, Puppet etc.

* Working knowledge with AGILE development, SCRUM and Application Lifecycle Management (ALM)

Desired Certifications in:

Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions, Architect Expert, Azure Developer Associate, Azure Administrator Associate, Azure Security Engineer Associate.

Not essential however nice to have:

MCSE Cloud Platform and Infrastructure, MCSA Cloud Platform Solutions Associate, MCSA, Linux on Azure Solutions Associate, AWS Certified Solution Architect.