Solution Architect (Azure, AWS, GCP), Senior Consultant, Cloud Engineering
Deloitte
- Belfast
- Permanent
- Full-time
We work with some of the world's most recognisable organisations, from well- known brands to key government and civic organisations who play important roles in our lives. At our core, we are a team of engineers who pride ourselves in designing, building and running best of breed cloud native infrastructure solutions for all our clients.We are not afraid to ask 'why' and always push to do things better. We are passionate about automation and we all take responsibility to ensure we deliver the best possible experience for our clients. We have a strong bias for action and want to get things done.
To enable us to continue making an impact for our clients and Deloitte, we are actively seeking to recruit people who want to be a part of our journey. We are looking for like-minded people who have a proven track record of learning and applying what they've learnt.Your roleAs a Cloud Solutions Architect you will work across both pre-sales and technical tasks.For pre-sales, you will:
- Own or support senior architects on requests for information (RFI), requests for proposal (RFP) and business development for client projects for both medium and large clients across AWS, Azure or GCP;
- Contribute to efforts from wider firm bid teams in creating public cloud designs and costs for inclusion in bid documentation;
- Contribute to bid team presentations when requested;
- Work with the cloud team on strategic deal opportunities;
- Be able to analyse and solve customer problems and identify new opportunities;
- Develop a deep technical knowledge of Deloitte's cloud products, solutions and services to enable the production of high-quality Azure, AWS or GCP designs;
- Build relationships to enable you to work closely with teams and clients to effectively understand and translate requirements into Azure, AWS or GCP designs;
- Ensure your designs reflect best practices and to the highest standard;
- Take responsibility for all aspects of Azure, AWS or GCP infrastructure designs you produce, from security by design to creating accompanying high-quality documentation;
- Provide feedback / peer review on designs produced by colleagues in Deloitte Cloud and the wider firm;
- Listen to feedback from client teams and constantly seek to improve the services we offer;
- Actively seek out opportunities to automate manual functions and justify reasons to do so to team leaders / management;
- Maintain knowledge of developments in Azure, AWS or GCP and seek out opportunities to apply new features and functionality to existing design patterns;
- Maintain project progress and documentation using Jira/Confluence.
- A passion for technology.
- Experience working in a technical pre-sales capacity, producing bid documentation, RFIs, RFPs and participating in technical bid presentation;
- AWS, Azure or GCP certifications;
- Demonstrable hands-on technical experience working in IT with a strong understanding of IT infrastructure fundamentals; compute infrastructure, storage, networking and management thereof;
- An understanding of cloud managed services;
- Solid understanding of cloud technologies, including fundamental characteristics of cloud, cloud-native design fundamentals, best practices;
- A strong understanding of security concerns around cloud and a willingness to develop public cloud infrastructure solutions which are secure by design;
- Strong OS knowledge including recent Windows and / or Linux experience;
- Familiarity with DevOps practices & culture, CI/CD pipelines;
- Willingness to travel occasionally.
- Scripting experience with any modern scripting language (Terraform, Ansible, Python, Powershell preferred);
- Understanding of using any of the above technologies to automate tasks allied to a strong desire to build on your existing skills;
- Experience of development pipeline technologies such as Jenkins, Git, Github or any competitors thereof;
- Experience of automating infrastructure deployment; using any of CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, Salt, Chef or Puppet.