Senior Cloud Consultant

INFRONT CONSULTING GROUP (M) SDN BHD; Petaling Jaya; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading consulting firm is seeking a Cloud Consultant to assess client environments and define cloud adoption strategies. You will lead cloud migrations, optimize spending, and ensure customer satisfaction while utilizing your extensive cloud architecture experience. This role requires strong technical skills across major cloud platforms (Azure, AWS, GCP) and a commitment to forging strategic relationships with customers. Ideal candidates will have 8+ years in IT and significant cloud consulting experience.

Qualifications

• 8–12 years in IT with at least 5+ years in cloud consulting/architecture roles.
• Deep hands-on experience with one or more major clouds (Azure, AWS, GCP).
• Proven track record delivering enterprise-scale cloud migrations/modernizations.

Responsibilities

• Assess client environments and define cloud adoption roadmaps.
• Implement identity and access management, cost governance, and optimize spend.
• Lead application and data migrations from on-premise or other clouds.

Skills

Cloud architecture (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS)

Networking

IAM

Security

DevOps/DevSecOps

CI/CD

Containers & orchestration

Terraform

Job description

Assess client environments and define cloud adoption roadmaps, target operating models, and governance frameworks.

Facilitate cloud readiness assessments, business case creation, and TCO/ROI analyses.

Architect solution designs for IaaS/PaaS/SaaS workloads including networking, identity, security, observability, and automation.

Lead application and data migrations (rehost, replatform, refactor) from on-prem or other clouds.

Implement identity and access management (IAM), key management, encryption, network segmentation, policy-as-code, and guardrails.

Establish cost governance, budgets, and alerts; optimize spend via rightsizing, reserved instances/commitments, storage tiering, and autoscaling.

Lead multi-disciplinary teams to deliver projects on time and within budget.

Conduct executive and technical workshops, produce reference architectures, and runbooks/playbooks.

Customer Centricity

Customer Satisfaction: Enhance Customer Satisfaction and establish yourself as a trusted advisor to both customers and partners by utilizing your expertise to achieve the objectives outlined in the Customer Success Plan. Actively listen and thoughtfully challenge to ensure the best possible outcomes.

Customer/Partner Insights: Deliver feedback and insights from customers and partners to relevant Microsoft, including Product Groups, to facilitate ongoing improvement.

Proficient in Customer Success for platforms focused on productivity and transforming business processes. Possesses strong technical skills and a commitment to collaborate with both business and IT stakeholders.

Executive Engagement: Expertise in cultivating and sustaining relationships with executive stakeholders and driving value proposition dialogues that align with customer goals and outcomes. Capable of analyzing and understanding customers' industry and business priorities.

Business Process Analysis

Illustrate customer business workflows and ready them for performance analysis and enhancement.

Articulate, demo, and present complex customer concepts to varying audiences, such as BDMs (Business Decision Makers) & ITDMs (Information Technology Decision Makers).

Territory & Pipeline Mgmt.

Experienced in territory management, opportunity qualification, stakeholder communication, and partner engagement, including opportunity and pipeline mgmt. Experience in ensuring customers realize value by consuming technology and services investments.

Required Qualifications

• 8–12 years in IT with at least 5+ years in cloud consulting/architecture roles
• Deep hands-on experience with one or more major clouds (Azure, AWS, GCP)
• Proventrack record delivering enterprise-scale cloud migrations/modernizations
• Strong understanding of DevOps/DevSecOps, CI/CD, containers, and IaC
• Excellent communication, stakeholder management, and consulting skills

Preferred Certifications

• AWS: Solutions Architect Professional, DevOps Engineer Professional
• GCP: Professional Cloud Architect, Professional Cloud Security Engineer
• Security: CISSP, CCSP

Core Skills

• Cloud architecture (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS), networking, IAM, security, DR/BCP, observability
• Containers & orchestration (AKS/EKS/GKE), serverless (Functions/Lambda/Cloud Functions)
• IaC and automation (Terraform/Bicep/CloudFormation), scripting (PowerShell/Bash/Python)
• CI/CD pipelines, artifact management, secrets management
• FinOps principles and cost optimization technique