Azure Technical Lead Consultant

Six Degrees is a cloud-led managed service provider. We work as a collaborative technology partner to businesses making a digital transformation. It’s a great time to join Six Degrees; we’ve just secured Microsoft Azure Expert MSP status and our businessis growing. At Six Degrees, everyone is welcome - we believe in harnessing a truly diverse and inclusive culture.

Our goal is to create a culture where different perspectives and experiences are valued, diversity of thought is encouraged and there is fairness and equality of opportunity for all.

As an Azure Technical Lead Consultant the core focus of the position is to lead an engineering team in the technical design, governance and delivery of Azure cloud solutions for both new and existing clients.? You will work closely with your team, your clientsand wider Six Degrees teams, to capture high level requirements in the form of stories and deliver outcomes of product backlogs.? The role will be hands-on technical delivery, focused on innovating and automating and as lead you will need to be in regularcontact with clients to communicate and overcome technical or design issues.

The role sits within our Operational Delivery team and forms part of a dedicated 'pod’ team, consisting of Azure Tech Lead, Azure engineers and specialist SMEs supporting our clients requiring trusted cloud and agile expertise.

Key Responsibilities:

- Lead the team in providing engineering and operational support across client’s Azure environments
- Understand the client’s business strategy and requirements, work with client to build technical roadmaps and, user stories and clearly articulate immediate priorities
- Build and maintain key client relationships; act as the 'go to’ technical contact for clients
- Input into agile ceremonies and daily stand-ups as technical lead
- Lead in cloud best practice design, development, platform management, testing & release and capacity planning to provide scalable, reliable and cost-efficient cloud solutions
- Lead engineers to create and release cloud-native systems and services utilising cloud principles i.e. landing zones, infrastructure as code (ARM/ Bicep/ Terraform), automation, CI/CD pipelines and containerisation
- Lead engineers to gather and analyze monitoring metrics to assist in performance tuning, incident response and post-mortem, and to get ahead of client needs by providing ability to continuously innovate and improve
- Be an expert of Azure services and native tooling, and cloud management platforms
- Be able to balance client feature development speed and reliability with achieving service level objectives
- Currently hold Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification - Essential
- Proven experience of designing and delivering cloud technology solutions for a broad range of clients
- Proven experience of cloud migration projects
- Proven experience of monitoring and managing cloud technology solutions
- Proven experience in agile/ scrum methodology and ceremonies, as a technical resource
- Proven experience of managing engineers
- Previous success in technical and cloud engineering
- Track record of Azure engineering, aligned to Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework
- Azure DevOps experience to setup Organisations, Projects and Security/ Permissions/ Access
- Azure DevOps experience to setup and manage repos and (CI/CD) pipelines
- Azure DevOps experience to support automated IaC (ARM/ Bicep/ Terraform) updates, and with automation and scripting experience also including at least basic experience of Powershell, Yaml, JSON, Python
- Modern Code Editors experience e.g. Git, vsCode for commits, pull requests, collaborative code management
- Azure Policy design related features experience to streamline deployments and managed service wraps
- Experience with Azure migrations including automation and configuring landing zones and migration tools
- Hands on technical experience with Azure, predominantly Iaas and PaaS

This role will be based remotely with 1-2 days a week in the office.

Six Degrees is not interested in paying lip-service to diversity and inclusion, and just observing our statutory duties. We work to continually re-affirm our commitment to cultivating a workplace and society that embraces and vigorously defends equity, diversityand inclusion. This includes all aspects of recruitment and employment - our recruitment and selection processes are open and fair, and we will always consider any reasonable adjustments or flexible working requirements. We are also an active member of theEmployers Network for Equality and Inclusion (ENEI) who support us on this journey.