Cloud Engineer - Consultant

Cloud Engineer - Consultant at Avanade

You are a solid technologist and trusted technology advisor who is just as comfortable working with a technical team as you are consulting with business users. You are a strong collaborator with excellent communications skills, are adept at mapping business needs to technology solutions and helping non-technical audiences understand the benefits of these solutions.

Our Consultants create sustainable concepts, working with our portfolio management team to make the most of technological developments in the Cloud. You’ll support your clients by working with them on the architecture and implementation of sophisticated cloud hosted solutions that support their business requirements. Your work helps clients get the very best out of the Cloud.

You’ll need to bring great interpersonal and communication skills to this role, as you help your technical and non-technical clients engage with often complex information.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage and support build and release of DevOps CI/CD pipelines
• Actively craft and implement innovative Azure cloud solutions with Microsoft technologies for clients
• Assist in defining technological standards in Azure environments
• Be involved in the entire project cycle from analysing requirements to crafting tasks, facilitate designs, build, test and provide operational documentation
• Design, implement and support Microsoft Azure solutions that meet customer’s technical, security, and business requirements for modern workloads
• Work with our customers to assess the technical feasibility for moving to Azure
• Undertake professional and technical reviews to ensure that your client has the best solution for their technical, security and business needs

Qualifications

To succeed in this role, you'll need the following skills and experience:

Technical Requirements

• Experience with Continuous Integration Delivery models such as Azure DevOps or GitHub including CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code
• Strong automation experience using Azure Automation, Azure CLI, PowerShell, Terraform and Bicep templates
• Strong knowledge of infrastructure solutions, specifically in relation to Microsoft Azure, platform migration, system security, enterprise directories, and cloud technologies
• Design, implementation and support experience of sophisticated Azure infrastructure solutions (IaaS & PaaS)
• Monitoring, alerting and logging tools (Azure Monitor / Log Analytics)
• Azure HA/DR, scaling, and backup solutions (Azure Site Recovery, Azure Backup, Scale Sets)
• Strong experience with Azure networking and technologies including Hub-Spoke topology
• Experience with Kubernetes technologies (Azure Kubernetes) is highly desirable
• Familiarity with ExpressRoute, VPN gateways and NextGen firewalls
• Familiarity with Active Directory and Entra ID solutions. Experience with RBAC and MFA

Non-Technical Requirements

• Experience interacting with clients from diverse professional backgrounds
• Experience working with teams to facilitate project work
• Solid experience in communicating and presenting complex information to technical and non-technical stakeholders, both verbally and in written form
• Solid written and spoken English skills

Preferred Certifications

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate, or within 1 year of hire
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect is highly desirable

Preferred Education Background

You will likely have a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent in computer science, computer engineering, management information systems, information technology or a related area, and/or the equivalent of 5+ years of experience in the IT sector.

Additional Requirements

• Australian citizenship is required for this role and willingness to obtain security clearance
• The role is open to Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Canberra candidates
• You will be willing to travel interstate if required for project requirements.

Key skills/competency

• Azure Cloud
• DevOps CI/CD
• Infrastructure-as-Code
• Terraform
• Bicep
• Kubernetes
• Azure Networking
• Active Directory
• Client Consulting
• Stakeholder Communication