Senior Consultant Engineer

ZipRecruiter; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A cloud services provider in the UK is seeking a Senior Consultant Engineer who will be pivotal in driving technical excellence and innovation. The role requires engaging with clients, ensuring high-quality deliverables, and collaborating with team members. The ideal candidate should possess strong technical expertise, excellent communication skills, and a genuine passion for technology. This position offers flexible working arrangements including remote work options.

Benefits

Private health cover including Dental

Life Insurance

Income Protection Insurance

25 annual vacation days

Working from home allowance

Access to Learning and Development

Qualifications

• Genuine passion for engineering and technology.
• Able to deliver presentations or contribute to high-quality documentation.
• Capability to inspire and influence team members for a positive environment.

Responsibilities

• Engage with clients to develop and implement technical solutions.
• Ensure all work meets high standards and support team reviews.
• Lead teams in achieving technical discussions.
• Support the sales function in pre-sales capacity.
• Participate in panel interviews to support hiring.

Skills

Technical expertise

Excellent communication

Leadership

Business aptitude

Education

Previous experience in an engineering role

Tools

CI/CD (Jenkins, Argo, Flux)

Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP)

Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible)

Container orchestration (Kubernetes, Docker)

Scripting languages (Bash, Powershell, Python)

Job description

Job Description

Container Solutions (CS) Container Solutions is a specialist cloud services provider that solves business problems by designing, building, and implementing technology solutions in a Cloud Native manner. With its extensive experience of delivering large scale transformations for enterprise clients, CS enables organisations to realise all the benefits that operating in the Cloud provides, including flexible deployment of services, resilience of infrastructure, speed to market and automation.

We are a small but growing organisation. You will join a highly motivated group of talented people that always strive to do the right thing for our clients.

Job Purpose

The Senior Consultant Engineer is pivotal in driving technical excellence and innovation within CS. They play a critical role in designing, developing and implementing high quality solutions for our clients, ensuring these meet client needs and goals. They share their knowledge generously with colleagues and contribute to the growth of our team.

Our engineers are generalists within the area of Cloud Native. Each project will have its own unique combination of tools and technologies but to give you a taste here’s a list of some of the typical technologies we use:

• CI/CD (Jenkins, Argo, Flux)
• Cloud Native deployment (Helm/ Kustomize)
• Cloud/Cloud Native platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP, OpenShift)
• Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible, Crossplane)
• Container orchestration, networking, and automation (Kubernetes, Docker)
• Scripting (Bash, Powershell, Python)
• Programming (Golang, Java, Ruby, Python)
• Vulnerability remediation and mitigation tools (BlackDuck, Snyk)

We value your ability to adapt over deep specialization.

In addition, we're currently seeking folks with strong experience in security and compliance to strengthen our ongoing efforts around continuous compliance project.

This is an external client facing and billable role.

Key Responsibilities

• Client Engagements: This role is client facing, this means you will use your technical expertise, problem solving skills and utilise advanced engineering principles and techniques to develop and implement solutions in collaboration with or for our clients.
• Quality Assurance: You will make sure that your work meets the highest standard. You will support and consistently review deliverables produced by the team to ensure high quality.
• Team Cohesion: You will rally teams towards achieving outcomes. You will bring the team together to resolve minor issues and can lead technical discussions.
• Technical Pre-sales: You may be called upon to support the sales function in a technical pre-sales capacity, helping to translate client requirements into a statement of work.
• Technical Hiring: You will support the growth of our team through participation in panel interviews.

Personal Attributes

Passion for Technology

• Genuine passion for engineering and technology
• Keeps up to date with latest trends

Team Player

• Works effectively in cross functional teams
• Strong team player and collaborator

Resilience and Drive

• Ability to handle high-pressure situation, comfortable with ambiguity
• Commitment to delivering high quality results

Integrity and Professional Conduct

• Demonstrates integrity in all interactions and decision making
• High ethical standards

Skills and Experience

Technical Expertise

• Previous experience in an engineering role

Consultancy

• Excellent communicator, able to deliver presentations or contribute to high quality technical documentation and other content
• Ability to handle difficult situations and conversations, able to read the room and adjust course of a meeting
• Takes initiative, able to identify issues, works to remove obstacles and can articulate solutions

Leadership

• Ability to inspire and influence team members, fostering positive, collaborative and safe working environment

Business Aptitude

• Demonstrates ability to identify opportunities within existing client engagements
• Acts as a trusted advisor to technical leads, proactively shares insights with key stakeholders
• Demonstrates strong understanding of CS as a business through proactive participation in the production of standardised value propositions, documentation and service offerings.

Why join Container Solutions?

• You get to work with a variety of different cloud technologies, and get to experience multiple ways of working as you engage with various clients
• Small company atmosphere, where decision-makers are easily reached, and bureaucracy is kept to a minimum - our clients who need transformation may differ!
• Working directly with peers in a supportive learning environment where we value outcomes and the journey as well as outputs
• A leadership team that values work-life balance and respects you have a life outside the workplace
• We appreciate everyone having a voice, but are also capable of making decisions and ensuring guidance is provided so that everyone can excel, or feel comfortable to make changes without fear

Benefits

• Private health cover including Dental and Employee Assistance Program with AXA
• Life Insurance
• Income Protection Insurance
• Bank holidays and 25 annual vacation days (27 after 2 years of service)
• Sick leave and pay policy (beyond statutory)
• Workplace Pension (beyond statutory)
• Working from home allowance
• Access to L&D
• Cycle to work scheme
• Opportunity to work together in-person in the London office, or work remotely (some team members are fully-remote)