Cloud Architect - Senior Technical Consultant - Consultancy

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Act as trusted advisor to Clients who are engaging in Migrations to cloud with a specific focus on AWS Review and make recommendations for existing Cloud implementations both Technical and Operational Client DetailsYou will be working for a customer and employee focused consultancy within Cyber Security, working with a variety of corporate and government clients; providing solutions throughout the project life cycle from pre-sales, through design, and to delivery.DescriptionCloud Architect - Senior Technical Consultant - Consultancy As a Senior Technical Consultant, you leverage your technical domain knowledge (e.g. Network, Network Security, Data Centre, Cloud Wireless, or Cyber Security) and experience in delivering Business Technology Consulting services to deliver the following responsibilities: * Contribute to pre-sales activities, including reviewing inbound statements of work (SOWs), validating and quantifying scope variations, providing technical guidance, and participating in kick-off meetings to ensure all relevant information has been handed over from sales to set up delivery for success * Leverage your subject-matter expertise and strong understanding/translation of customer requirements to scope best-practice services and solutions in line with financial and performance targets. * Lead the design, development and delivery of multiple technology consulting engagements; providing technical authority for the overall design, approach and customer deliverables, and ensuring they are delivered in line with quality, cost and time standards * Significantly contribute to project management activities, breaking projects down into clear outcomes, milestones and deliverables, and delegating activities to the team (e.g. planning, design, implementation, documentation) to ensure maximum and efficient utilisation of available resources * Act as a central point of customer contact for technical communications and escalations, and leverage your deep experience and lessons learned to develop issue mitigation strategies and support your team in resolving risks to service delivery * Authentically engage and manage key stakeholder relationships both internally and externally * Continuously develop your own knowledge, skills and understanding of industry best practice/ technologies, and share your knowledge to mentor, coach and enable more junior project team members to deliver to a high standard of technical quality * Significantly contribute to continuous improvement initiatives and thought leadership, providing input and performing Quality Assurance (QA) on customer-facing solutions and documentation ProfileCloud Architect - Senior Technical Consultant - Consultancy Key Skills: Secure Web Gateway SolutionsFirewall Upgrade & Migration ExperienceSecurity Frameworks & StandardsDelivery ManagementAutomation, Orchestration and scripting (Python, Ansible, NETCONF/YANG) DevOpsCloud Networking (Azure, AWS, GCP) Business AcumenData Centre SDN (DCMN, ACI, NSX, UCN, SDDC)D-WAN / SASE Problem Solving Analytical ThinkingStakeholder Management Customer Engagement Presentation skillsWritten and verbal communicationMCN / TPNPolicy Based Access (802.1x, RADIUS,ISE, ClearPass) Endpoint Security SolutionsContinuous Improvement Mindset Core Route, Switch & Wireless Strategic InfluencingStatement of Work Development Business Financial Analysis Advisory Consulting CollaborationDR technologies. System IntegrationData protection technologiesModern Data Centre technology sets from Cisco, HPE, Nutanix, Dell, VMware, Netapp.Private cloud solutions from VMware & MicrosoftPublic cloud solutions from Microsoft, Amazon and GoogleStorage platforms - Pure Storage and NetApp. Technology Architecture Development Requirements DefinitionVMWare Hybrid Cloud Solutions - VMC, AVS, GVE. Windows Server and Linux Operating Systems SOAR/SIEM solutionsIdentity Management and Multi-Factor Authentication SolutionsCloud Access Security Broker Technologies (CASB) Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert or is working towards this so has passed either AZ-303 or AZ-304AWS Cloud Practitioner NICE TO HAVE Microsoft Certified: Azure Security Engineer Associate (AZ-500)VMware Certified ProfessionalAWS Solutions Architect Associate (or higher)Job OfferCloud Architect - Senior Technical Consultant - ConsultancyLondonOffering a strong package as well as excellent culture and work/life balance. Our client is employee-focused, offering a number of different health and well being elements.