Principal Azure Consultant

Location: UK
- London UK
- Reading UK
- Hatfield UK
- Manchester UK
- Nottingham UK
- Milton Keynes UK
- Birmingham UK
- Edinburgh Job-: 219614 Contract type: Standard Business Unit: IT Consulting

Life on the team

This is an exciting opportunity to work with some of the UKs largest organisations shaping cloud strategies influencing solution design and delivering modern Azure platforms that enable business transformation. Youll combine deep technical expertise with customer-facing consultancy acting as a trusted advisor throughout the full project lifecycle.

Youll be joining Computacenters Global Professional Services organisation a community of over 5000 consultants architects engineers and project professionals delivering complex technology solutions across the world.

As part of our Azure Practice youll work alongside industry-leading cloud specialists architects delivery teams and strategic technology partners. Youll help shape cloud strategy contribute to innovative service offerings and work with leading technologies across Azure Dev Ops Automation and Kubernetes.

What youll do

• Lead customer engagements providing expert Azure consultancy throughout the solution lifecycle
• Shape and influence Azure solutions during pre-sales activities workshops and technical discussions
• Design and implement scalable secure and resilient Azure platforms aligned to industry best practices
• Provide technical governance assurance and quality control across pre-sales and project delivery engagements
• Define standards blueprints and reusable patterns for Azure-based solutions
• Collaborate within agile delivery teams to design implement and optimise cloud solutions
• Present technical solutions to customers and stakeholders at both technical and executive levels
• Identify technical and business risks and provide recommendations to ensure successful outcomes
  Mentor consultants and engineers while contributing to the growth of the Azure Practice

What youll need

• Extensive experience designing and delivering Microsoft Azure solutions
• Azure certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert Azure Administrator Associate and/or Azure Dev Ops Engineer Expert
• Strong experience supporting pre-sales engagements and shaping customer requirements
• Expertise across Azure infrastructure networking security governance automation and cloud migration
• Strong understanding of:
  • Azure Cloud Adoption Framework
  • Enterprise Scale Landing Zones (ALZ)
  • Well-Architected Framework
  • Fin Ops and Cost Optimisation
  • Operational Resilience
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and automation tools including Terraform Bicep Ansible Power Shell and Python
• Knowledge of Azure Dev Ops Git Hub CI/CD pipelines and platform automation
• Experience with Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) and container-based platforms
• Strong communication skills with the ability to engage technical teams business stakeholders and customer leadership
• Experience delivering cloud solutions within agile environments
• Experience with technologies such as Azure Virtual Desktop Azure Local Azure Sovereign Cloud Service Now Dynatrace Datadog Splunk Zscaler Palo Alto or cloud cost optimisation tools would be advantageous.

If youre looking for a role where you can combine deep Azure expertise customer engagement and technical leadership while helping organisations accelerate their cloud transformation journeys wed love to hear from you.

About us

Computacenter is a leading independent provider of IT infrastructure services with about 21000 employees worldwide. We work at the heart of digitisation advising organisations on IT strategy implementing the most appropriate technology and managing our customers infrastructures.

We offer a friendly open working environment without too much fuss about hierarchy. We are looking for professionals with diverse competencies personalities and strengths who want to live our shared value of teamwork and performance.

Interested in joining a company with a strong sense of community

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