Principal Consultant

What will be doing?

Within our Delivery Squads, you will be paired with seasoned Azure Engineers like yourself, Azure Architects, Technical PMs, and a lead Technical Consultant. We operate in an Agile environment, using Azure DevOps, Terraform, Azure Migrate, and align to the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) and Well Architected Framework.

You will have the opportunity to work with a broad range of enterprise scale customers and will work as a key member of our project delivery team, where you will support the customers’ ability to build and deploy to cloud services and release software.

• Working within our Delivery or Managed Services teams, you will form an essential hands-on part of any delivery service to our notable large and medium-sized enterprise clients.
• You will act in a senior capacity for all matters relating to Azure DevOps, Terraform, Azure Migrate, and the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) – capable of leading an engineering team migrating clients to Azure.
• You will be experience in assessing, remediating and migrating application platforms to Azure
• You will support as a consultant and take the lead in customer facing conversations when required.
• Support the implementation of DevOps processes and tooling
• Automate the configuration and management of cloud workloads in Azure
• Be entrepreneurial and offer contribution to technical solutions, whilst work in a cross- collaborative team
• Support automated build, configuration, test and deployments of applications to cloud agnostic
• Utilize IaC to achieve the configuration and deployment of Azure environment and workloads

Key Responsibilities

• Working within our Delivery or Managed Services teams, you will form an essential hands-on part of any delivery service to our notable large and medium-sized enterprise clients.
• You will act in a senior capacity for all matters relating to Azure DevOps, Terraform, Azure Migrate, and the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF) – capable of leading an engineering team migrating clients to Azure.
• You will be experience in assessing, remediating and migrating application platforms to Azure
• You will support as a consultant and take the lead in customer facing conversations when required.
• Support the implementation of DevOps processes and tooling
• Automate the configuration and management of cloud workloads in Azure
• Be entrepreneurial and offer contribution to technical solutions, whilst work in a cross- collaborative team
• Support automated build, configuration, test and deployments of applications to cloud agnostic
• Utilize IaC to achieve the configuration and deployment of Azure environment and workloads
• You will support the Squad Lead (Azure DevOps) by acting as a technical point of escalation where feasible and by offering additional support and mentoring to other members of the Azure DevOps team.
• You will complete additional task’s as assigned by the Squad Lead (Azure DevOps)

What experience do I need?

• Previous experience of working within Azure DevOps (or equivalent CI/CD tooling)
• Experience in deploying CI/ CD pipelines
• Experiencing building and configuring cloud services using Infrastructure as Code
• Knowledge of Terraform
• Previous experience building and configuring Azure IaaS and PaaS service
• Strong knowledge of core Azure infrastructure components such as Networking and Storage, Security capabilities such as KeyVault, and App hosting options such as VMs, App Service

Salary: £55,000 per annum

Location: UK home based / Manchester

Please send your CV to working@shapingcloud.com and a member of our Talent team will be in touch.