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  • Posted: Sep 17, 2020
    Deadline: Not specified
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    Were for the disruptors. The movers and shakers. The change makers. The ones who understand that bravery doesnt mean recklessness. And that safe and affordable can ignite growth.We help ambitious organisations adopt Microsoft cloud. Our clients know that the right technology can free them to grow. But they also know caution thats why they work with an ex...
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    Senior Project Manager

    Purpose

    • As a Project Manager, you will be responsible for delivering a portfolio of exciting IT projects on time, within budget, ensuring all the aims and quality standards of the project are met.

    Responsibilities:

    • Manage a portfolio of complex project initiatives with project teams and project delivery across-geographies
    • Full project lifecycle ownership from initiation to deployment 
    • Set and continually manage project plans and expectations - develop Statements of Work and appropriate specifications
    • Report on project status, milestones and success criteria - analyse and troubleshoot problem areas
    • Ensuring that the delivery of new products or services from Projects is to the appropriate levels of quality, on time and within budget, in accordance with the Programme plan and Programme governance arrangements
    • Work creatively and analytically to solve problems demonstrating teamwork, innovation and excellence
    • Work across teams to prepare estimates and detailed project plans
    • Provide leadership and coaching; mentor and motivate team members
    • Procure adequate resources to achieve project objectives
    • Participate in establishing practices, templates, policies, tools and partnerships for the company
    • Manage day-to-day project activities and resources and chair project meetings
    • Oversee project budgets
    • Demonstrate a functional acumen to support how solutions will address client goals
    • Develop and manage all aspects of project and program engagement from planning, vendor relationships, communications, resources, budget, change, risks and issues.
    • Set and continually manage project expectations while delegating and managing deliverables with team members / stakeholders / Customers
    • Develop trusted advisor relationship with customers - identify new opportunities to help customers solve their business problems
    • Continue professional development to keep abreast of emerging technologies, methods and best practices used in project management adopt as required to increase team productivity & project success.

    Essential Knowledge and Skills Required:

    • At least 7+ years’ relevant experience in delivering large/complex IT projects
    • Technology background with early career hands on technical experience
    • Experience helping organisations migrate to, build on and optimize their Cloud technology through advisory, delivery planning and implementation
    • Proven ability to organise and execute projects in a consistent, repeatable and reliable manner
    • Technical/conversational knowledge & track record in delivery of projects in some or all of the following areas:
    • Infrastructure technology
    • Microsoft Azure & Office365
    • Virtualisation / cloud platforms
    • Datacentre strategy and operations
    • Backup, Storage and disaster recovery
    • UC & Networking
    • Device Management
    • Large scale migration projects
    • Hybrid environments
    • Legacy Environments
    • Security
    • Excellent time management, communications, decision-making, presentation, human relations and organisational skills
    • Ability to resolve problems in a timely manner
    • Ability to communicate technical information and ideas 
    • Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment
    • Enterprise level use of Microsoft Office suite including Project and Visio
    • Experience of Waterfall, Agile Hybrid & Scrum methodologies 

    Desirable Knowledge and Skills Required:

    • Experience of direct personnel line management
    • Strong academic background - ideally with a technical degree
    • Business Analysis skills

    Qualifications/Certifications:

    • PRINCE2 Practitioner or equivalent
    • AgilePM Foundation or Practitioner
    • ITIL Foundation

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    Senior Azure Engineer

    More is in you

    • At Cloud Direct, we have our own ambitious plans; to double in size year-on-year. This growth creates huge opportunity for A-class talent to join us on that journey. A job at Cloud Direct is unlike any other you’ve had. You’ll be challenged. You’ll be inspired. And whatever you do, you’ll grow and be part of something exciting. “More is in you” is a mantra that permeates the core of our culture. It means you dig deep and bring out the best in yourself. We employ the smartest, brightest and most capable.

    Responsibilities:

    • To conceptualize, design, and deliver product/sustenance delivery through the team as per defined scope and standards in a particular technology.
    • Reviews on the architecture and design deliverables and support.
    • Ensure knowledge up-gradation and work with new technologies so that the solution is current and meets quality standards and the client requirements.
    • Gather specifications and deliver solutions to the client organization based on a domain or technology.
    • Recommend client value creation initiatives and implement industry best practices.
    • Train and develop the team so as to ensure that there is an adequate supply of trained manpower in the said technology and deliver risks are mitigated.
    • Design and develop a solution for product/project and sustenance delivery.
    • Effectively present public and hybrid cloud-based architectural design concepts and solutions to all levels in the organization.
    • Drive decision making. Identify alternatives, pros, and cons, and make recommendations.
    • Anticipate when an architectural change will be needed and prepare the organization for a successful transition.
    • Build public and hybrid cloud-based, optimized reference applications, show-casing event-driven, elastically scalable, fault tolerance, and other cloud architecture patterns.
    • Drive public and hybrid cloud-based, proof-of-concept prototypes that assess the feasibility of solutions and demonstrate to our clients how technology can be leveraged.
    • Identify, analyze, and resolve the most complex public and hybrid cloud-based issues.
    • Manage multiple initiatives independently.
    • Communicates architectural solutions to managed services team leaders and other critical stakeholders throughout the architecture planning and design process.

    Skills and Experience Required:

    • Implement and monitor an Azure infrastructure
    • Implement management and security solutions
    • Implement solutions for apps
    • Implement and manage data platforms
    • Design monitoring
    • Design identity and security
    • Design data storage
    • Design business continuity
    • Design infrastructure

    Computer

    • Microsoft Hyper-V
    • VMware vSphere
    • Some VM-related administrative tasks include:
    • Deploying VMs into virtual networks
    • Configuring VM for optimum cost, performance, and security
    • Backing up VMs and potentially providing failover recovery

    Storage

    • Securing data against unauthorized access
    • Backing up data and making it efficient to restore when needed
    • Configuring long-term archival storage to maintain corporate compliance

    Network

    • Deploying and configuring virtual networks
    • Orchestrating routing paths, especially in a hybrid cloud
    • Managing public and private IP addresses for your VMs and selected other Azure resources

    Security

    • Encrypting data in transit, at rest, and in use
    • Protecting Azure Active Directory accounts against compromise
    • Reducing the attack surface of all your Azure resources

    Qualifications and Experience Required /Desirable:

    • AZ-300 and AZ-301.
    • AZ-303 and AZ-304.
    • AZ-300 and AZ-304.
    • AZ-301 and AZ-303.

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