Cloud and Infrastructure Consultant

Job Title: Cloud and Infrastructure Consultant

Location: UK based– Hybrid – with UK Travel

Salary: Up to £65,000 + Car Allowance (£6000)

Contract type: Permanent

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About the role

Our Cloud and Infrastructure Consultant will be responsible for the design and successful delivery of both on premise and cloud based infrastructure projects. The purpose of this role is to understand the customer’s requirements, and to define and deliver the infrastructure solution by building scalable systems. The Senior Design and Delivery Consultant will align with our commercial and operational delivery models and technical best practice when proposing customer solutions.

As a Cloud and Infrastructure Consultant, you will travel nationally to new and existing customer sites when required to deliver projects on time and ensure that Circle have a broad depth of skills available to our customers. There is also a requirement to carry out an Enhanced DBS check (Education Customers)

What you’ll do

You will be required to understand and define technical solutions that meet the customer/prospective customer’s requirements.
Align solutions to ARO’s product catalogue and our operational delivery models and be able to communicate the business benefit and ROI that our solutions can provide to an organisation/business
Have the technical vision and oversight of chosen products and technologies to obtain maximum value for ARO and the customer in the implementation
Define and document to a high standard the requirements and the high-level design of the solution, working closely with the technical and project management teams to ensure that the solution is fully understood
Prepare and deliver presentations; face to face and remotely
Develop long-term working relationships/partnerships with external vendors and prospective, new and current customers
Provide technical advice and guidance to the technical and project team members, specifically during the lifecycle of a project/handover
Keep abreast of different technologies and for own continued professional development
Carry out activities such as certifications that support our ability in achieving sales specialist status for the company’s Vendor Partnerships
You will be responsible for technically leading Wintel and other assigned projects from start to completion. This includes mentoring other engineers as required, knowledge transfer etc.
This will be achieved through delivering the project, mentoring other staff members in the project team who may be assigned to the project with you, dealing with technical escalations and liaising closely with the project managers to get the project closed off for the customer within time and budget.
Nationwide travel to Customer sites and working outside of the office for extended periods of time.

Client-friendly, confident, eager and enthusiastic individual, who is keen to develop their career long term.
Project implementations/project lifecycle experience is essential.
Willing to travel when required. A full UK driving license is essential.
Excellent troubleshooting
Able to self-manage time.
Continue to gain industry accreditations.
Excellent communication skills with all levels of stakeholder
Ability to document work.
Experience in project design and delivery, end to end is essential

Microsoft Azure Services

IaaS and PaaS Experience
Networking (Inc, vNets, Gateways, Routing Tables, VPNs, Peering)
Backup and Site Recovery
Azure Virtual Desktop ·
Azure Stack HCI
Storage Accounts (Inc Blobs, Files and Resilience, Performance)
Familiarity with Landing Zones and the Microsoft Azure Well-Architected Framework

Private Cloud Infrastructure –

Server, SAN, HCI and DAS Solutions (Preferably Dell EMC Technology)
PowerStore
ME
PowerEdge
Data protection and disaster recovery solutions

Software

VMware, HyperV
VSAN, S2D, VxRail, ASHCI
Veeam
Microsoft SQL Server, VPN Solutions

M365

Microsoft Entra ID
App Integrations and SSO
MFA
Conditional Access
Exchange Online
Hybrid Deployments
Security and Compliance
Mail flow
Collaboration

Desirable

M365

Intune
Teams Telephony
Defender for Endpoint

Firewall

SonicWALL
FortiGate NGFW

Who are we?

ARO has 25 years’ experience in Collaboration, Connectivity, Cloud and Infrastructure and Cyber Security services both in the UK and Internationally and has a nationwide presence with offices across the UK.

As one of the UK’s leading independent IT and communication experts our mission is to deliver a seamless technology experience to all end users. To make that vision a reality, we need bright, tenacious and inspiring talent to help drive our performance, growth and achieve this mission.

To make us successful we focus on strong communication, a culture based on fun, trust and collaboration. We have created a modern workplace environment, which is full of engaged, energetic, positive and curious people whose productivity, resilience and wellbeing allow them to thrive.

In 2021 we were awarded the People Insight’s Outstanding Workplace Award, which celebrates organisations building positive workplace cultures and acting on employee feedback to spark positive change.

Why Work for ARO?

At ARO we are committed to creating an excellent employee experience. Our employees, culture and additional benefits all make ARO a great place to work. Come join us!

We offer a wide range of benefits and incentives to our employees including: