Cloud Consultant - IT

Skill/Operating Group: Technology Consulting 

Level: Consultant

Location: Gurgaon/Mumbai/Bangalore 

Travel Percentage Expected: Travel could be anywhere between 0-100%

Principal Duties And Responsibilities:

Working closely with our clients, Consulting professionals design, build and implement strategies that can help enhance business performance. They develop specialized expertise- strategic, industry, functional, technical- in a diverse project environment that offers multiple opportunities for career growth.

The opportunities to make a difference within exciting client initiatives are limitless in this ever-changing business landscape.

Here are just a few of your day-to-day responsibilities.

- Identifying, assessing and solving complex business problems for area of responsibility, where analysis of situations or data requires an in-depth evaluation of variable factors.

- Identifying a client's high-level business needs and leading the creation of detailed functional specs and other documentation, such as requirement traceability matrices, work-flow diagrams and use-cases

- Designing new business processes based on customer requirements and conduct user review sessions and run stakeholder agreement meetings applying thought leadership in leading the transformation

- Driving enterprise business, application and integration architecture

- Helping solve key business problems and challenges by enabling an architecture transformation, painting a picture of, and charting a journey from the current state to a - to-be- enterprise environment

- Implementing programs/interventions that prepare the organization for implementation of new business processes

- Developing our offerings and assets

Qualifications:

- Bachelor Degree

- MBA Degree from Tier-1 College (Preferable)

- Minimum of 4-7 years large scale consulting experience and managing teams in a consulting environment or at high tech companies

Experience:

- Cloud Assessment: Cloud readiness maturity assessment, Planning and assessment of cloud solutions/platforms, Application assessment and migration planning, Business case development, TCO comparisons and vendor evaluation

- Cloud Architecture: Develop cloud reference architecture, Define target state cloud architecture, Experience with private and public cloud architectures, pros/cons, and migration considerations.

- Cloud Deployment: Cloud application development, integration and security, Experience in -

 Cloud platforms - AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Cloud Foundry, Open Shift, Docker, etc., experience in Virtualization Platforms (e.g. VMWare, Hyper-V, etc.).

 Cloud Computing and Storage (AWS, Azure)

 Devops and Agile methodologies, processes and tools

 Workload Migration Automation Tools (Double-Take, Racemi, etc.)

 Cloud Management Platforms (vrealize, Gravitant, etc.)

 Infrastructure provisioning and management (Puppet, Chef, Ansible)

- Experience in working with large UK&I clients (Preferred)

Key Competencies and Skills:

- Strong desire to work in technology-driven business transformation

- Strong knowledge of technology trends across IT and digital and how they can be applied to companies to address real world problems and opportunities.

- Exceptional interpersonal and presentation skills - ability to convey technology and business value propositions to senior stakeholders

- Team oriented and collaborative working style, both with clients and those within the organization.

- Capacity to develop high impact thought leadership that articulates a forward thinking view of the market.

- Ability to develop and maintain strong internal and client relationships

- Proven track record in working creatively and analytically in a problem-solving environment

- Proven success in contributing to a team-oriented environment with effective consulting skills

- Proven track record to quickly understand the key value drivers of a business, how they impact the scope and approach of the engagement

- Flexibility to accommodate client travel requirements