Principal Cloud Consultant

ABOUT SCALE FACTORY

We are an AI enablement consultancy. Delivering quality-led AI-first foundations, embedding capability and excellence into the foundational fabric of the companies we work with. We give leaders the confidence to move faster, take smarter risks and pursue transformation.

In 2024, Ten
10 and The Scale Factory joined forces to create the Scale Factory we know today. By uniting our deep cloud expertise, AI ambitions, and rigorous engineering disciplines, we deliver the robust, scalable foundations needed to turn ambitious transformation into reliable reality.

• Exciting Projects:
  Collaborate on challenging, impactful projects with a wide range of industries - from finance to government and beyond.
• Career Growth:
  Tailored training and development opportunities to help you reach your goals.
• Team Culture:
  Join a supportive, inclusive team that values collaboration, creativity, and innovation.
• Flexibility:
  Hybrid working lets you balance work and life.

As a Principal Cloud Consultant at Scale Factory, you’ll:

• Interact with customers regularly, acting as the go-to technical contact for those in your engagement portfolio.
• Own delivery management for a number of work streams, helping to define and prioritise work, manage risks and provide guidance to junior colleagues.
• Perform in-depth discovery activities with clients, translating non-technical business requirements into technical solutions.
• Assist the Growth Team in a pre-sales capacity, providing technical input right from the start.
• Act as a technical authority for both delivery work streams and the internal initiatives.
• Communicate effectively, both internally and externally with colleagues, clients and third parties to drive growth.
• Stay ahead of the curve by keeping up with emerging trends and certifications.
• Solving complex challenges with ingenuity and innovation.
• Drive continuous improvement both within your work streams and across the wider delivery function.

We’re seeking a talented, passionate Principal Cloud Consultant to join our growing team. To be successful, you’ll be both technically excellent and a confident communicator, willing to own all aspects of a project from pre-sales, into discovery, design and implementation, as well as the delivery management thereof.

• Eligibility for Security Clearance.
• Excellent Communication:
  Ability to communicate effectively with a range of stakeholders from C-suite down, both off the cuff and in more formal presentations or report writing.
• Business Savvy:
  Able to look behind the technical problems and understand the business drivers to change, prioritising accordingly and building consensus. A proven track record of spearheading successful projects, aligning multiple work streams and managing client relationships.
• Dev Ops Mastery:
  Deep understanding of Dev Ops principles and how they transform businesses.
• People Leadership:
  Experience managing people and mentoring less experienced colleagues.
• AWS Expertise:
  Extensive hands‑on experience with AWS and ability to articulate best practices for building secure, scalable platforms. Able to articulate the business value and ROI of cloud platforms.
• Architectural Know-How:
  Ability to design and implement complex cloud platforms incorporating legacy workloads, microservices and containerisation.
• CI/CD Pro:
  Proven experience with tools like Git Hub, Git Lab, or AWS Dev Ops Tooling, and expertise in deployment automation/orchestration.
• Networking Knowledge:
  Expert with networking concepts and how they translate to cloud environments:
  Virtual Networks, routing, DNS, Gateways, Load Balancers and more.
• Security Expert:
  Understanding of key AWS security services such as IAM, WAF, and KMS. Experience implementing best practices for securing data, ensuring compliance with industry standards and regulations. Awareness of compliance frameworks (e.g., ISO
  27001, PCI-DSS).
• Infrastructure-as-Code:
  Mastery of Terraform, Cloud Formation, CDK or equivalent, and awareness of when to use different tools.
• Scripting & Automation:
  Skills in a scripting language like Python, Ansible,…