Senior Cloud Consultant (Azure, M365)

About Doherty Associates

Doherty Associates (DA) has delivered IT solutions for over 30 years to world-renowned, international clients. We deliver a broad range of consulting and managed services to a highly loyal and expanding client base. We specialize in risk-focused sectors, including capital markets and legal, where security capability and service quality are highly valued.

​​We are a highly accredited Microsoft partner with four Solutions Partner Designations, ISO27001, ISO9001 and Cyber Essentials Plus and operate a multi-geographic 24/7 support service.

​Our customers rely on us to bring specialist expertise and innovation across cloud solutions, hybrid working, modern workplace, data and BI, cyber security, governance and compliance. We have built a reputation as a company that keeps its promises and delivers quality.

​About the role

This technical role will suit a senior professional who has experience and is passionate about helping organizations transform and adopt Azure and M365 services. You will act as a technical authority in these disciplines and provide technical consultancy in both, presales and project delivery across the full project lifecycle, ensuring that the technical solutions (proposed and delivered) meet customer’s needs.

As such you will need to have deep expertise in designing and implementing cloud and hybrid infrastructure solutions using Azure technologies, such as Azure IaaS, Azure Virtual Desktop, Windows Infrastructure, Active Directory, and Microsoft network services, as well as collaboration solutions using M365 technologies, such as Entra ID, Intune and M365 security services.

Responsibilities

Technical delivery

• Act as the technical authority and lead the design, development, and delivery of cloud and hybrid infrastructure solutions (using Azure technologies, as well as collaboration solutions using M365 technologies).
• Technically manage the end-to-end project lifecycle, from planning and scoping to testing and deployment, ensuring quality and timely delivery of solutions.
• Collaborate with the wider delivery team and the Project Managers to deliver projects.
• Contribute to post-project lessons learned meetings chaired by the Project Managers.
• Work with the Service Desk Manager to ensure appropriate handover to the Service Desk team at project closure. Provide training, documentation, and assistance to the support team as services transition into operations.​

Pre-sales consultancy

• Work closely with customers through presales engagements to understand their business goals, challenges, and requirements, and provide strategic guidance and best practices on how to leverage Azure and M365 to achieve them.
• Conduct workshops, assessments, and demos to highlight the value and capabilities of Azure and M365 services and help clients envision their future state.
• Perform peer reviews of the team’s pre-sales designs and recommendations.
• Collaborate with the Pre-sales Manager and provide technical leadership as well as the sales team, in customer meetings and/or during pre-sales engagements.​

Other duties​

• Be a visible senior technical professional – lead by example and assist the business with coaching and training of other engineers.
• Ensure timely completion of timesheets for accurate project billing and reporting.
• Stay abreast of the latest trends, features, and updates of Azure and M365. Share your knowledge and insights with the team and the broader business.​

Qualifications, skills & experience​

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information systems, or a related field, or demonstrate an equivalent hands-on experience.
• Strong experience and relevant certification in Azure and M365 services and related ecosystems.
• Solid understanding and exposure to other adjacent technologies such as networking, security, data, virtualisation.
• Strong knowledge of Azure and M365 architecture, administration, security, and governance.
• Proficient in PowerShell and other Azure and M365 tools and APIs.
• Strong working knowledge and experience delivering projects and programmes of change.
• Experience of performing diagnostics and fault-finding.
• Excellent presentation skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both, technical and non-technical audiences.
• Fluent English.

About the person

• ​Professional demeanour with gravitas.
• High level of empathy. Able to actively listen and consult customers on their requirements.
• Curious and willing to learn new skills.
• Analytical with the ability to solve problems autonomously.
• Supportive and keen to share knowledge with colleagues.
• Reliable with a high sense of accountability and ownership.
• Detail orientated.
• A passion for learning new technologies and staying updated on the latest trends and best practices.

​What we offer in return

• ​Basic salary plus performance bonus
• 34 days of annual leave (incl. 8 UK bank holidays and a day off on your birthday)
• We are passionate about our success being driven by ‘better together’ and offer hybrid working with subsidised home-to-office travel costs
• Enhanced family-friendly benefit schemes including company sick pay
• Sponsored training and development and where applicable to the role, a technical exams incentive scheme
• Private medical insurance and Employee Assistance Programme
• Income protection and life insurance
• Company Pension scheme