Job Description
Cloud Transformation Consultant: Defence & Security
Location: London or Bristol or Manchester
Clearance: All applicants must hold UK security clearance to Developed Vetting level (DV)
Salary: £55,000 - £85,000 (DOE) (+£15k Benefits Package)
(Depending on Level [Consultant to Manager])
Can you guide defence users through complex technology challenges and rapidly develop new solutions to meet defence needs? We are looking for an experienced senior hire to help digitise defence with new thinking on technology capabilities and adoption processes and someone who is sensitively able to combine the latest thinking with traditional military functions.
The future is full of possibility, agility and Cloud. Do you want to shape the future of cloud experiences?
Deloitte Cloud Transformation imagines, delivers, and runs innovative Cloud solutions for the UK's most prominent companies using open-source software, cloud-native technologies, thought leadership and a focus on business value.
We pride ourselves on the quality of our staff and offer unique opportunities to learn, grow and lead in exciting new areas such as infrastructure-as-code, DevOps, containers, platform-as-a-service, CI/CD and micro-services.
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 workload, 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 Architecture & Engineering
- Cloud technologies and services (AWS / Azure / Google Cloud Platform)
- 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 toolchains 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
Cloud Consulting
- Helping clients navigate the end-to-end journey for cloud infrastructure and engineering
- 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.
Tech Author:
- Transcribing Architectural information into Technical Documents suitable for Engineering and Development Areas to utilise for development, support and maintenance of complex Networks
- Development, publication and maintenance of Technical documentation covering the Network on the web Likely requires knowledge of git, mark-up and similar technologies used in existing decision processes
- Manage a technical decision-making process, running a backlog of decisions, helping neutrally frame difficult/contentious topics
- Organising set-pieces and ensuring accurate record keeping
Your service line: Consulting
Our people and the way we work are the two things that set us apart in the consulting universe. For us, collaboration and an unrivalled depth and breadth of expertise are fundamental to success. We work closely with our clients and each other at every stage of every project, solving our clients’ trickiest problems with a mix of knowledge, creativity and intellectual rigour. A hugely diverse range of clients rely on us to deliver the change that adds genuine, lasting value to their business.
Interested in progressing your career in Cloud Transformation and Consulting/ Management? Apply now!
luke.davidson@ansonmccade.com