Senior Cloud Engineer at Tower Group

Key Responsibilities

• Understanding customers’ overall data centre, IT and business processes, to design implementation and roll-out cloud focused solutions.
• Application of technical knowledge to architect solutions that meet business and IT needs, creating a data platform and ensuring long term technical viability of Microsoft 365 deployments
• Ensuring solutions exhibit high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, appropriate reusability and reliability upon deployment
• Develop deep relationships with the customer’s IT team and provide guidance to enable them to be cloud advocates
• Share insights and best practices, as well as connecting with the engineering team to identify and resolve network security matters
• Assess the customers’ knowledge of the Microsoft 365 platform and overall cloud readiness, to support customers through a structured learning plan and ensuring its delivery through partners.
• Collaborate with other engineers in developing complex end-to-end enterprise solutions on Microsoft 365.
• Maintain technical skills and knowledge, keeping up to date with market trends and competitive insights, collaborate and share with the technical community while educating customers on the Microsoft 365 platform.
• Be a Microsoft 365 evangelist with customers, partners and external communities

Requirements include:

• More than 10 years of experience in a technical role with the last 3-4 years focused on Microsoft cloud solutions, having deployed projects, architecture, design, implementation, and/or support.
• Experience in managing various stakeholder relationships to get consensus on solutions/projects.
• Ability to orchestrate, lead, and influence virtual teams, ensuring successful implementation of customer projects.
• Experience with deploying and training users on Microsoft Teams, InTune and Sharepoint
• Technical experience with cloud and hybrid infrastructures, virtualisation, architecture designs, database migrations, and technology management.
• Microsoft certifications, including MCSA-O365 and MS900/MD101/MS101/MS500
• Microsoft Azure certifications in AZ103/AZ300/AZ500

Advantageous skills

• Technical experience and knowledge, in two or more data platform cloud solutions – such as AWS or Google Cloud
• Advanced analytics including Azure Data Bricks and visualization tools such as PowerBI
• The technical aptitude and experience to learn new technologies and understand relevant cloud trend
• Linux operating systems
• Advanced networking skills with Firewalls (Mikrotik, Cisco, Juniper, Fortinet)