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Azure Infrastructure Practice Lead

Remote:

Full Remote

Experience:

Senior (5-10 years)

Work from:

Illinois (USA)

Offer summary

Qualifications:

8+ years of infrastructure architecture experience, Solid Microsoft Azure expertise, Strong communication and presentation skills.

Key responsabilities:

Build and grow Cloud Infrastructure Professional Services Practice
Lead pre-sales, strategy, architecture, and delivery efforts
Ensure high project delivery standards and guide team

Atmosera Information Technology & Services SME https://www.atmosera.com/

51 - 200 Employees

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Job description

Job Description:

The Practice Lead will build and grow our Cloud Infrastructure Professional Services Practice. This role will be leading the pre-sales and strategy efforts, working directly with customers for architecture, and with the internal team for delivery. They will be at the forefront in establishing cloud infrastructure architectural best practices and frameworks for this team moving forward.

This role will be a balance between pre-sales activities, architecture, and delivery. The ideal candidate will be experienced in all three areas in a consulting capacity.

What You'll Do

Team oversight: Overseeing team members training, retention, hiring and ensuring a high standard of project delivery and quality to our customers

Resource Alignment: Being the expert of your teams capacity and skills to properly align them to engagements/business to forecast demand accurately

Guidance and Growth: Mentor and coach team members for their ongoing career development and provide guidance/supervision from both a practice and consultative perspective

Cultivate Excellence: Foster a culture of high performance and excellence. Engage and motivate employees, facilitating collaboration and knowledge sharing across practices

Thought Leadership: Demonstrate competency to the team through internal and external thought leadership. This may include authoring SME focused collateral (Whitepapers) blogging, speaking at conferences, etc

Sales Support: Educate and support the Atmosera sales team in driving revenue by supporting strategic sales opportunities

Client Relationships: Develop relationships with key client stakeholders, service as a trusted advisor to the during their azure transformation

Solution Development & Architectural Best Practices: Lead packaging of solution offerings across practices and enable sales teams

Product Development: Lead ideation and development of internal and external IP in support of business initiatives. Develop IP Solutions that drive cross practice and cross business line opportunities

Required Experience:

8+ years of experience in infrastructure architecture design and development, and/or system integration/development.

2+ years in a technology management role

3+ years involvement in technology pre-sales

Understanding of cloud ecosystem and leading-edge cloud Infrastructure emerging technologies

Microsoft Azure experience required

Experience scoping and designing projects within Microsoft Azure infrastructure and topologies (Operations Management Suite, Application Insights, Azure Site Recovery, Azure Backup, Security Center, Azure Networking, Azure Storage, Azure Automation)

Strong presentation, written and verbal communication skills

Self-starter with the ability to work independently or as part of a project team

Passion for client experience and for professional services as a vehicle to help clients achieve their goals.

Entrepreneurial spirit, and desire to look for opportunities to continually improve.

Demonstrated leadership of a technology practice area in a professional services organization.

Demonstrated leadership of a product development team, with consistent performance in hitting goals related to ship dates, feature delivery, and product quality.

Ability to operate effectively as part of a matrixed team and drive results from members of the organization who may not be part of a direct reporting relationship.

Ability to provide constructive feedback to consulting team members.

Ability to address conflict. Able to prepare for and execute on difficult conversations.