Senior Consultant Engineer

JR United Kingdom; London; On-site; GBP 50,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Senior Consultant Engineer to join their dynamic team. In this pivotal role, you will leverage your technical expertise and problem-solving skills to design, develop, and implement high-quality Cloud Native solutions for a diverse range of clients. You will be part of a supportive environment that values innovation and collaboration, working closely with talented professionals who are passionate about technology. This position offers the opportunity to engage in client-facing projects while contributing to the growth of the team and the organization. If you are ready to make an impact and thrive in a fast-paced setting, this role is perfect for you.

Benefits

Private health cover including Dental

Life Insurance

Income Protection Insurance

25 annual vacation days (27 after 2 years)

Sick leave and pay policy

Workplace Pension

Working from home allowance

Access to L&D

Flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• Experience in engineering roles with a focus on Cloud Native technologies.
• Strong communication skills for client engagements and technical documentation.

Responsibilities

• Drive technical excellence and innovation in Cloud Native solutions.
• Engage with clients to develop and implement tailored solutions.

Skills

Cloud Native Solutions

Problem Solving

Technical Communication

Team Collaboration

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Engineering or related field

Relevant certifications in Cloud technologies

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Docker

Python

Golang

Java

Ruby

BlackDuck

Snyk

Job description

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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:

• 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.

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.

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

Various company benefits including:

• 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
• Opportunity to work together in-person in the London office, or work remotely (some team members are fully-remote)