Senior Consultant, Cloud Engineer (Azure), Business Operations, Cloud & Engineering, Consulting

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Job description

Connect to your Industry

Are you passionate about Cloud technology - an experienced solutions builder or a roll-up-your-sleeves technologist who is interested in joining a community of collaborative colleagues who respectfully and courageously seek to challenge the status quo?

We work with a lot of industries and sectors to solve our clients' most complex problems, initiating and accelerating their Digital and Cloud technology journeys.

Our leading Cloud & Engineering practice is positioned at the crucial intersection of business, technology and industry to help our clients reimagine their business through the latest technological advancement and guide them through the transformation journey. Our team spends the majority of their time working on client sites across the UK - and sometimes in Europe.

Our team is responsible for assisting our clients in answering their most challenging problems:

• How can you leverage the capabilities of Cloud to enable and accelerate business and IT transformation?
• How can you build and deliver exceptional value while working in an Agile, multi-disciplinary environment?
• How do we architect and design the best cloud services to enable business growth?

You would be working as part of a team with room to develop your career in Cloud.

Connect to your career at Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Using our vast range of expertise, that covers audit, risk advisory, and consulting services across tax, legal, business, technology and corporate finance, we help our clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. To do this, we invest in outstanding people. We build teams of future thinkers, with diverse talents and backgrounds, and empower them all to reach for and achieve more.

What brings us all together at Deloitte? It's how we approach the thousands of decisions we make every day. How we behave, our beliefs and our attitudes. In other words: our values. Whatever we do, wherever we are in the world, we lead the way, serve with integrity, take care of each other , foster inclusion, and collaborate for measurable impact. These five shared values lead every decision we make and action we take, guiding us to deliver impact how and where it matters most .

Connect to your opportunity

The future is full of possibility, agility and Cloud. Do you want to shape the future of cloud experiences? So do we. Deloitte Cloud Transformation imagines, delivers and runs innovative Cloud solutions for the UK's most prominent companies using a combination of open-source software, cloud-native technologies, thought leadership and a focus on business value. We pride ourselves on the quality of our staff and offer unique opportunities to learn, grow and lead in exciting new areas such as infrastructure-as-code, DevOps, containers, platform-as-a-service, CI/CD and micro-services.

You will help to build robust and scalable cloud platforms that enable teams to deliver modern micro-services based and digital solutions and continuously improve environments through automation and infrastructure-as-code.

You will focus on helping our clients design and implement modern, agile Cloud environments. Responsibilities will include delivering across a broad range of activities from technical and solution architecture design to operations, prototyping, developing and testing (depending on the size of the project and the client needs).

You will be collaborating with cloud thought leaders across disciplines to innovate together contributing to RFP responses and other business development activities and building lasting relationships with clients and colleagues.

Connect to your skills and professional experience

Candidates are required to demonstrate skills and experience in some of the following.

Key consulting skills including a number of the following:

• Strong ability to provide thought-through, clearly articulated, pragmatic solutions and recommendations to complex business problems.
• Demonstrated ability to prioritise work load, meet project deadlines, and drive results
• Ability to communicate complex / technical issues to non-technical audiences
• Management of teams and deliverables
• Vendor/product assessment and selection
• Assessment of applications for technical suitability for migration to Cloud

Cloud Architecture & Engineering

• Building Azure solutions with a well-architected mindset focusing on computing, networking, storage, monitoring, and security
• Establish and enforce security and compliance measures in Azure, including identity and access management (MS Entra), network security and data encryption
• Container technologies (e.g. Docker, Rocket) and their associated orchestration engines (Kubernetes / OpenShift / Rancher / Swarm)
• Infrastructure as code development (Terraform, ARM)
• Running and using Cloud automation tooling including Continuous Integration & Deployment
• DevOps philosophies and toolchains such as continuous integration and delivery
• Linux and windows system implementation and management using automation frame works such as Ansible, Salt Stack, Puppet, PowerShell etc.
• Application deployment and testing tool chains such as Jenkins, SVN, GitHub
• Knowledge of security and performance considerations and approaches for digital systems, and exposure to security and performance testing process
• Experience helping clients define technical and non-functional requirements
• Cloud environment design and implementation

We are recruiting to support client demand across industry, however, it is advantageous if the candidate either holds security clearance (T2/T3) or is eligible to undergo security clearance in terms of their flexibility to support the broadest range of future demand.

Connect to your business - Consulting

Distinctive thinking, deep expertise, and collaborative working. That's what connects us. That's what makes us Deloitte. If you want to help solve some of the biggest challenges around, join us. Together, we'll make an impact that matters.

Personal independence

Regulation and controls are standard practice in our industry and Deloitte is no exception. These controls provide important legal protection for both you and the firm. We are subject to a number of audit regulations, one of which requires that certain colleagues abide by specific personal independence constraints (e.g., in relation to any financial interests and employment relationships). This can mean that you and your "Immediate Family Members" are not permitted to hold certain financial interests (shares, funds, bonds etc.) with audit clients of the firm, and also prohibitions on certain employment relationships (e.g., you are not permitted to hold a secondary employment role with SEC audit clients of the firm whilst being employed by the firm). The recruitment team will provide further detail as you progress through the recruitment process or you can contact the Independence team upon request.

Connect with your colleagues

"What attracted me to Deloitte were the endless opportunities and the collective experience of other like-minded individuals. Deloitte's clients include many of the world's largest organisations; I wanted to be part of a team that made a difference that I could be proud of."

- Dan, Consulting

Our hybrid working policy

You'll be based in the UK with hybrid working. Our hybrid model enables our people to collaborate, connect and innovate in both a virtual and physical capacity. As well as remote working, you'll attend your local office, virtual collaboration spaces and client sites, depending on the requirements of the role.

At Deloitte we understand the importance of balancing your career alongside your home life. That's why we'll support you to work flexibly through our hybrid working policy. Depending on the requirements of your role, you'll have the opportunity to work in your local office, virtual collaboration spaces, client sites and remotely. You'll get the chance to meet face to face when needed, while you collaborate and learn from colleagues, share your experiences, and build the relationships that will fuel your career and prioritise your wellbeing. Please check with your recruiter for the specific working requirements that may apply for your role.

Our commitment to you

Making an impact is more than just what we do: it's why we're here. So we work hard to create an environment where you can experience a purpose you believe in, the freedom to be you, and the capacity to go further than ever before.

We want you. The true you. Your own strengths, perspective and personality. So we're nurturing a culture where everyone belongs, feels supported and heard, and is empowered to make a valuable, personal contribution. You can be sure we'll take your wellbeing seriously, too. Because it's only when you're comfortable and at your best that you can make the kind of impact you, and we, live for.

Your expertise is our capability, so we'll make sure it never stops growing. Whether it's from the complex work you do, or the people you collaborate with, you'll learn every day. Through world-class development, you'll gain invaluable technical and personal skills. Whatever your level, you'll learn how to lead.

Connect to your next step

A career at Deloitte is an opportunity to develop in any direction you choose. Join us and you'll experience a purpose you can believe in and an impact you can see. You'll be free to bring your true self to work every day. And you'll never stop growing, whatever your level .

Discover more reasons to connect with us, our people and purpose-driven culture at deloitte.co.uk/careers

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