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Job Title: Azure Solutions Architect

Location: Remote Working

Salary: £55,000 – £70,000 plus our great benefits package

Job Type: Permanent, Full Time

Born in the Cloud and raised in Manchester, UK since 2010, we are a Cloud first, digital transformation partner for Public Sector and Enterprise clients across the UK. We started with a dev squad cutting code and providing web enabled applications and other bleeding edge stuff. Partnering with Microsoft early on in their Azure development, we were one of the first Microsoft Gold Cloud Partners – and we still are today.

Why are we different?

Yeah, we know. there’s lots of consultancies out there. There’s also plenty more Microsoft partners to choose from. However, we know that we’re different (in a good way) we don’t stick to the consultancy “norm” – we’re techies at heart that want to inspire change. We are not sales led. Our consultants build and maintain the customer relationship and a salesperson won’t stand in the way of pragmatism, agility, or plain common-sense solutions to technical challenges, where a change or flex of scope is going to provide maximum business value for the client. Our delivery teams aren’t accompanied by a contracts lawyer either, looking for CCNs. Our graduates aren’t pushed onto a client with zero experience and instructed to take a cookie cutter approach. Our consultants come from an operational background with real-world experience at the highest level, in both public sector and global enterprise allowing them to empathise with those at the sharp end today – and not just at CxO level, on a technical level too. Ultimately, we’re aiming to be the technology partner we didn’t have when we were client side. A proper partner that understands the whole organisation and starts by listening. Pretty radical.

That’s all very nice, but what’s in it for me?

Good question. Ignore all the adverts that list “benefits”, which are just the UK legal minimums, we offer market leading salaries and benefits depending on the role, your qualifications, and your experience and on top of those skinflint minimums we offer…

• Monthly socials
• Regular care packages delivered to your home
• Fully remote home-based contract
  • we ask that travel to Manchester isn’t too laborious (you need to get here for the socials)
  • we have a hub in Manchester for locals to gather if you prefer an office environment
  • we also have hubs in Reading and London for catchups and brainstorming
• Access to learning portals for MSFT certifications, and we pay for the exams
• Up to 5 extra days a year leave, 1 day per year added after 2 years’ service
• 2 days extra annual leave for your efforts helping a recognised charitable cause in person

What will I be doing?

We expect our candidates to have a keen interest in technology and be continually looking to learn and explore new ways of using that technology for our customers. Working within our Delivery or Managed Services teams, you will form an essential hands-on part of any delivery service to our notable large and medium-sized enterprise clients. Within our Delivery Squads, you will be paired with seasoned Azure Architects like yourself, Azure Engineers, Technical PMs, and a lead Technical Consultant. We operate in an Agile environment, using Azure DevOps, Terraform, Azure Migrate, and the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF). Within Managed Services, you will be proactively managing Azure environments for our top-tier customers, gaining a broad range of experience across the M365 and Azure platforms.

What tech do I need to know?

• We’re a Microsoft Gold partner, so experience delivering migrations to Microsoft Cloud services is paramount
• Office 365 / M365 migrations including modern desktop technologies (Intune, Windows 10)
• Azure migrations (Iaas, PaaS, SQL) both lift n’ shift and transformation to Cloud native
• Tools such as Jira and Confluence
• Experience of Azure DevOps a bonus
• For M365 – MD-100 / MD-101, MS-100 / MS-101
• Microsoft Certification – AZ-900, AZ-104, AZ-303 / AZ-304

Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of; DevOps Administrator, Systems Developer, Systems Support, Systems Architect, Software Support, Lead Systems Support, Software Architect, Systems Manager, Coding, Infrastructure Engineer, DevOps Engineer may also be considered for this role.

Job Title: Azure Cloud Engineer

Location: Remote Working

Salary: £45,000 – £65,000 plus our great benefits package

Job Type: Permanent, Full Time

Born in the Cloud and raised in Manchester, UK since 2010, we are a Cloud first, digital transformation partner for Public Sector and Enterprise clients across the UK. We started with a dev squad cutting code and providing web enabled applications and other bleeding edge stuff. Partnering with Microsoft early on in their Azure development, we were one of the first Microsoft Gold Cloud Partners – and we still are today.

Why are we different?

Yeah, we know. there’s lots of consultancies out there. There’s also plenty more Microsoft partners to choose from. However, we know that we’re different (in a good way) we don’t stick to the consultancy “norm” – we’re techies at heart that want to inspire change. We are not sales led. Our consultants build and maintain the customer relationship and a salesperson won’t stand in the way of pragmatism, agility, or plain common-sense solutions to technical challenges, where a change or flex of scope is going to provide maximum business value for the client. Our delivery teams aren’t accompanied by a contracts lawyer either, looking for CCNs. Our graduates aren’t pushed onto a client with zero experience and instructed to take a cookie cutter approach. Our consultants come from an operational background with real-world experience at the highest level, in both public sector and global enterprise allowing them to empathise with those at the sharp end today – and not just at CxO level, on a technical level too. Ultimately, we’re aiming to be the technology partner we didn’t have when we were client side. A proper partner that understands the whole organisation and starts by listening. Pretty radical.

That’s all very nice, but what’s in it for me?

Good question. Ignore all the adverts that list “benefits”, which are just the UK legal minimums, we offer market leading salaries and benefits depending on the role, your qualifications, and your experience and on top of those skinflint minimums we offer…

• Monthly socials
• Regular care packages delivered to your home
• Fully remote home-based contract
  • we ask that travel to Manchester isn’t too laborious (you need to get here for the socials)
  • we have a hub in Manchester for locals to gather if you prefer an office environment
  • we also have hubs in Reading and London for catchups and brainstorming
• Access to learning portals for MSFT certifications, and we pay for the exams
• Up to 5 extra days a year leave, 1 day per year added after 2 years’ service
• 2 days extra annual leave for your efforts helping a recognised charitable cause in person

What will I be doing?

We expect our candidates to have a keen interest in technology and be continually looking to learn and explore new ways of using that technology for our customers. Working within our Delivery or Managed Services teams, you will form an essential hands-on part of any delivery service to our notable large and medium-sized enterprise clients. Within our Delivery Squads, you will be paired with seasoned Azure Engineers like yourself, Azure Architects, Technical PMs, and a lead Technical Consultant. We operate in an Agile environment, using Azure DevOps, Terraform, Azure Migrate, and the Microsoft Cloud Adoption Framework (CAF). Within Managed Services, you will be proactively managing Azure environments for our top-tier customers, gaining a broad range of experience across the M365 and Azure platforms.

What tech do I need to know?

• We’re a Microsoft Gold partner, so experience delivering migrations to Microsoft Cloud services is paramount
• Office 365 / M365 migrations including modern desktop technologies (Intune, Windows 10)
• Azure migrations (Iaas, PaaS, SQL) both lift n’ shift and transformation to Cloud native
• Tools such as Jira and Confluence
• Experience of Azure DevOps a bonus
• For M365 – MD-100 / MD-101, MS-100 / MS-101
• Microsoft Certification – AZ-900, AZ-104, AZ-303 / AZ-304

Candidates with the relevant experience or job titles of; DevOps Administrator, Systems Developer, Systems Support, Systems Architect, Software Support, Lead Systems Support, Software Architect, Systems Manager, Coding, Infrastructure Engineer, DevOps Engineer may also be considered for this role.

Shaping Cloud are a rapidly growing Cloud Consultancy organisation, who require an Cloud Consultant to join our ever-growing team. As a Microsoft Gold Partner, we are genuinely passionate about what public and hybrid cloud have to offer. We help our clients cut through the noise and provide clarity on what cloud means for their clients and disrupt the norm in a positive way.

We are a forward-thinking technology scale-up and one of the UK’s leading Cloud experts. We champion the adoption of the best available technologies to drive value and empower organisations to deliver their vision. We live by what we advocate – so we expect our employees to be just as creative and passionate about the value of using the latest technology within the company as with our clients.

Why work here

Independently owned and managed, we focus on creating the kind of consultancy we all searched out for whilst working client side. Due to our reputation and standard of work delivered, we are constantly growing and looking for the best people to come and help us on the journey. Every team member is integral to the company and plays an important part in shaping the culture. We are a people first organisation, knowing they are our biggest assets. Which is why each employee is given shares in the company, rewarded for the hard work they put in.

We focus on building a supportive culture where people can grow and learn, knowing they will be heard and valued. Although we’re 100% remote we have monthly socials, care packages and aim to meet monthly in person. With strong social values, we look to develop staff and offer days off for charitable activity, alongside flexible working hours to facilitate work-life balance.

Our kind of people

Culture fit is the most important element of our recruitment process. You can be top of your game but we’re more interested in whether your future colleagues will love working with you. As inclusive employer no two employees are alike, but we appreciate the following traits;

– Ownership – as a close-knit team we relay on everyone playing their part and bringing joy by going that extra mile
– Striving for excellence – attention to detail, whilst questioning and understanding the why. We want to add value and delight our customers.
– Enthusiasm – for everything you do. We love people who take joy in their work and want to make the business the best it can be.
– Entrepreneurial spirit – seeing opportunities to improve, willing to take risks, strive to learn and rise to new challenges.

Role Description

The primary responsibilities of the role will focus on strategic consultancy, presales tasks such customer meetings, solutions scoping including the high-level design. You will own the end-to-end process and evangelise on Azure platform and its capabilities to their customers. Secondary responsibilities will include strong commercial awareness and being able to spot opportunities to monetise various technology innovations such as those on Azure.

– Running Design workshops, creating solution design documentation, presentations
– Working closely with our customers to scope project requirements and integration with their existing systems
– Design and Documentation peer-review
– Provide technical escalation to consulting team
– Configuration, integration, testing, optimisation and implementation of solutions
– Product Lifecycle and Development – Supporting our ‘Rapid Enablement’ Concept
– Mentoring, Coaching and Training internal consultants.
– Defining and Maintaining Standards

Key Skills & Experience

– Microsoft Azure solution skills (design & build)
– Azure IaaS platform skills
– Azure PaaS skills (Need to include a reasonable mix of key solutions such as Data factory, event hub, IoT hub, Azure SQL, Azure Active Directory, Logic Apps, API management, EMS, OMS…etc.)
– General VMware datacenter solutions (design & deployment skills)

Soft Skills

– Commercial skills – Ability to focus on the commercial side of a solution including articulating business value
– Good presentation skills with ability to present to CxO & deep technical audience
– An undying “Can Do” attitude at all times
– Self-managed individual
– Insatiable appetite for knowledge
– Entrepreneurial mentality
– Attention to detail – extremely important

Job Title: Azure Cloud Consultant

– Salary Commensurate with experience -up to 90k
– Location/base: UK- based Home / Manchester
– A laptop is provided
– We offer a pension scheme and additional company benefits