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Cloud Consultant

  • Location:

    Dublin

  • Sector:

    Technology

  • Job type:

    Permanent

  • Salary:

    €65000 - €75000 per annum + Bonus, pension, negotiable

  • Contact:

    John McGuinness

  • Contact email:

    John.McGuinness@weareoliverjames.com

  • Job ref:

    JOB-022021-135783_1615223384

  • Published:

    about 3 years ago

  • Expiry date:

    2021-04-07

  • Startdate:

    ASAP

This role will be a Consultant in an Infrastructure Consulting practice in the Irish marketplace focused on providing technical leadership and advisory services for hybrid cloud infrastructure solutions for top-tier clients.

The consultant will be the subject matter expert for cloud, cloud management, orchestration and automation tools within the services team and will advise some of Ireland's largest enterprise accounts on the opportunities for leveraging cloud technologies to deliver business benefits.

The ideal candidate will have a strong mix of technical, system architectural and commercial skills and will advise our customers how to craft a flexible, technically solid & financially viable enterprise cloud strategy.

The candidate will also be expected to lead the design and build of the hybrid cloud infrastructure platform.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

  • designs develop and manage the implementation of complex cloud infrastructure and platform solutions for enterprise clients.
  • Good knowledge and hands-on experience of cloud infrastructure technologies are a requirement.
  • Works directly with client to gather requirements, design solutions, build proof of concepts and implement cloud solutions
  • Lead the delivery of cloud readiness assessments
  • Assists in opportunity evaluation and leading or assisting on pursuits at new clients or within existing ones.
  • Demonstrates and actively promotes an understanding and commitment to the mission of of the busienss through performing behaviors consistent with the organisation's values.
  • Supports and conducts self in a manner consistent with customer service expectations.
  • Uphold standards of the firm

Experience: professional services / consulting, client-facing background essential

  • Experience in the following is required:
  • Providing Private & Hybrid Cloud / Enterprise Infrastructure Architecture designs and standards
  • Understanding of public cloud IAAS and Infrastructure integration, automation and orchestration.
  • Understanding Cloud Platforms from a service provider perspective.

Required Certifications:

  • The candidate will have one or more vendor cloud and converged infrastructure certifications, e.g. AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate (or Expert), IBM Certified Solution Architect, VCDX-Cloud other certificates ae a plus

Desirable Experience and Certifications - Nice to have

  • Ideally, the candidate would also have some experience of the following technologies:
    • Hybrid Cloud Solutions - GCP, IBM Cloud, Oracle Cloud, Office365
    • Virtualisation - vSphere, Hyper-V, OpenStack
    • Hyperconverged Infrastructure - NetApp HCI, Cisco Hyperflex, Nutanix
    • Microsoft Services - Active Directory, DNS, DHCP
    • Networking - Cisco

Important soft skills

  • Interpersonal skills
  • Management skills
  • Communication
  • Eagerness
  • Consultative
  • Multi-Tasking

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