Solutions Consultant

We currently have a vacancy for a Solutions Consultant to join our Pre-sales team in our Managed IT Division.

Commercial Managed IT provide enterprise-level IT resources for business of any size. Providing infrastructure, networking and cloud IT solutions and support that goes beyond boundaries.

**So what do you need to do?**

This varied role will involve a combination of working out of our head office in Cheltenham, from home and travel to our client sites throughout the UK as required.

As a Solutions Consultant, you are part of our accomplished Infrastructure community, working with the latest technologies on challenging and complex cloud transformation journeys and hybrid cloud solutions; helping our clients get the very best out of thecloud. Your knowledge and experience will also help to build Commercial’s cloud practice.

**You will**:

- Define and present the vision and roadmaps for cloud-based and hybrid-cloud solutions for our clients.
- To engage with senior leadership and project stakeholders to articulate opportunities, costs, and risks associated with decisions made around the platform architecture and implementation.
- Execute technical workshops to collect requirements, understand the problem and explore solutions.
- Provide strategic consultancy to design and define cloud architectural solutions and see through to implementation.
- Provide presales consultancy to support sales in winning new business opportunities.
- Take ownership for technical delivery of projects and complete hands-on technical implementation as required.
- Work closely with all teams to ensure project and service delivery meet customer expectations.
- Promote an environment that encourages collaboration, team working and innovation within the Consulting Services team.
- Have a proven track record in successful delivery of industry standard IT solutions.

**About you**:

- Ideally be certified with the core industry certifications and have a good amount of experience in customer facing hands-on design and implementation preferably working within an IT reseller environment.
- Be self-motivated with the ability to identify priorities and manage multiple workloads and projects. Attention to detail is a must with a methodical and professional approach to solution design and implementation.
- Experience in conveying technical designs in a proposal format to a wide audience of business stakeholders

**Desired technical skills**:

- Strong technical background and knowledge of industry standard security solutions
- Advanced understanding, hands on experience of firewall design and deployment
- Knowledge of vulnerability management and intrusion detection/prevention solutions
- Microsoft 365 Suite and migrations to Modern Workplace solutions
- Windows Operating systems, Active Directory and Azure AD
- Hypervisor technologies (VMware / Hyper-V), solution design and implementation
- Active Directory, ADFS, Group Policy and Certificate Services
- TCP/IP, VLAN, switching, routing and firewall configuration, VPN and WAN environments
- Web and E-mail Security
- Server technologies, solution design and implementation
- SAN technologies, solution design and implementation
- HPE and Aruba technology stack

**It would also be beneficial to have experience of**:

- Azure IaaS and PaaS service
- Azure Subscription design, Governance, Roles and Policies
- Azure Virtual Desktop / Citrix Cloud
- Competent with PowerShell / Azure CLI
- Microsoft Exchange including DAG and Exchange Online
- Microsoft Remote Desktop Services
- Microsoft Clustering technologies
- Corporate wireless systems
- Backup and DR technologies
- Mobile Device and Application Management

**In return you can expect**:

- A competitive salary of up to £60,000, dependant on experience
- Generous holiday allowance of 25 days plus bank holidays, increasing to 29 days with length of service
- Bonus scheme of £5,000 (paid quarterly upon achievement of KPI’s)
- Company Car
- A life assurance scheme. It’s not a topic we like to think too much about, but we feel it’s important to offer protection for our employees and their families. If the worst possible thing happens, our scheme offers a payment equivalent to four times yourannual salary
- Access to free confidential support through our Employee Assistance programme
- A chance to earn extra money if we hire your friends or family with our employee referral programme
- A chance to join initiatives that help our planet. Sustainability is at the heart of everything we do and as such we have a number of initiatives to help you play your part; including a company contributory carbon offsetting scheme, an electric vehiclepurchase scheme and electric car charging points at Commercial House, Cheltenham.
- Looking for a little extra? You get a paid day off for doing charity or volunteering work and you might even get a treat on your birthday and work anniversary
- Regular 1-2-1 meetings and development reviews to help you reach your full potential while feeling truly valued and appreciated for the work that you do
- A vibrant staff community with fun perks and corporate social responsibility events
- Other benefits such as cycle to work scheme, pension contributions, flexi-time scheme, and more

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