Role Summary:

Working closely with our clients, Consulting professionals design, build and implement strategies that can help enhance business performance. They develop specialized expertise-strategic, industry, functional, technical-in a diverse project environment that offers multiple opportunities for career growth. While the specific type of consulting work they do can vary, it generally aligns to management consulting, systems integration consulting or technology consulting.

Job Description:

Cloud Infrastructure professionals develop and deliver hosting solutions to meet today’s growing demand for agile and cost effective computing solutions.  Using both private and public cloud technologies, our consulting professionals implement scalable, high performance hosting solutions that meet the need of today’s corporate and digital applications.  Additionally, our teams plan and deliver legacy infrastructure transformation and migration to drive next-generation business outcomes.

Key Responsibilities:

• Eagerness to participate on a team designing, building and/or testing cloud infrastructure focused solutions.
• Develop and deliver strategies and solutions for enterprise infrastructure -- including servers, databases, storage devices, etc. -- that handle the data necessary for enterprise operations.
• Thoroughly document all facets of the infrastructure solution.
• Stay educated on new and emerging market offerings that may be of interest to our clients.
• Adapt to existing methods and procedures to create possible alternative solutions to moderately complex problems.
• Use considerable judgment to define solution and seeks guidance on complex problems.

Basic qualifications:

Preferred Skills:

Candidate must have completed the following training:

• Developing Microsoft Azure Solutions
• Implementing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure Solutions
• Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions

Candidate must have completed the following certifications:

• MCSD: Azure Solutions Architect

Special skills / experience required:

• Ability to build architectures and provide prescriptive guidance across network, storage, operating systems, virtualization, RDBMS & NoSQL databases, Hadoop, mid-tier technologies that include application integration, in-memory caches, and security.
• Serve as technical liaison between customers, engineering & support teams
• Collaborate with sales team to formulate / execute a sales strategy to exceed revenue objectives
• Establish credibility & build deep relationships with customer senior technical individuals to enable them to be cloud advocates
• Participate in deep architectural discussions to build confidence and ensure customer success when building new and migrating existing applications, software and services on the Azure platform.
• Conduct deep-dive “hands-on” training sessions for customers who are considering or already using Azure
• Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the Azure community
• Author or contribute to Azure customer-facing publications such as whitepapers, tutorials, etc.
• Present sessions at Azure and industry conferences

  BA/BS with a minimum of five years of prior consulting/professional services and project management experience;

• Excellent verbal/written communications & org skills with ability to facilitate meetings and conduct consulting activities
• Experience as a team lead in consultative role on customer engagements involving software application projects
• Ability to be hands-on in leadership roles as well as manage others to execute and deliver project deliverables
• Working knowledge all Azure web services. Knowledge of the following also beneficial:
  • Cloud migration methodologies and processes, including tools like Racemi
  • Reference architecture development
  • Azure-based architectures for web-based applications, etc.
  • DevOps on an Azure platform

    Nice-to-Have Skills/Qualifications:

• Excellent communication (written and oral) and interpersonal skills
• Excellent organizational, multi-tasking, and time-management skills
• Proven ability to work independently