Senior Consultant Engineer

Container Solutions; England; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A cloud services provider is seeking a Senior Consultant Engineer to drive technical excellence and innovation. This pivotal role involves designing and implementing solutions that meet client needs, engaging with clients directly while ensuring high-quality deliverables. You will collaborate within a talented team, participate in business growth, and help with technical pre-sales. Ideal candidates are passionate about technology, possess strong communication skills, and have experience in engineering roles. This position offers flexible working arrangements and a supportive company culture.

Benefits

Private health cover

Life Insurance

Income Protection Insurance

25 vacation days (27 after 2 years)

Work from home allowance

Qualifications

• Demonstrates technical expertise in client-facing situations.
• Ability to handle high-pressure situations and deliver high-quality results.
• Proven track record in leadership roles, fostering team collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Drive client engagements using advanced engineering principles.
• Ensure quality assurance in deliverables produced by the team.
• Support sales functions in a technical pre-sales capacity.
• Participate in panel interviews to support hiring.

Skills

Client Engagement

Quality Assurance

Team Cohesion

Technical Pre-sales

Technical Hiring

Passion for Technology

Team Player

Resilience and Drive

Integrity and Professional Conduct

Excellent communication

Education

Previous experience in an engineering role

Tools

CI/CD (Jenkins, Argo, Flux)

Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, Ansible, Crossplane)

Container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)

Cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP)

Job description

Container Solutions (CS) 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 of operating in the Cloud, 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.

Typical Technologies Used

• 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 languages (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 projects.

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 situations, 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 a 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

Various Company 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)