Cloud Engineer, Associate/Senior Associate – Technology Consulting
Location: Other locations: Primary Location Only
Date: Apr 16, 2026
Requisition ID: 1532123
Overview
As a Technology Consulting professional, you’ll help businesses realize the value they can gain from their IT investments — supporting strategy and being a key growth driver.
The Opportunity
We are seeking a self‑driven technical consultant to plan and design the technology solution for client engagements.
Key Responsibilities
- Communicate system requirements to software development team, project team and clients.
- Evaluate and select appropriate software or hardware and propose integration methods for client engagements.
- Define the required technical architecture specifications based on solution or client requirements.
- Define technical standards together with the project manager or lead architect.
- Implement and document the agreed architecture and infrastructure environments; ensure they meet the standards defined.
- Conduct architecture operational and resiliency tests as part of delivering the architecture.
- Assist with solving technical issues.
- Address technical concerns, risks and issues.
Skills and Attributes
- Deep understanding of cloud computing and data technologies, business drivers, emerging computing trends, and deployment options (preferably in Microsoft Azure and AWS).
- Expertise in defining, designing and developing distributed and scalable products and services, including reusable domain‑specific microservices on multi‑platform/hybrid clouds such as Microsoft Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, Rackspace, VMware, or OpenStack.
- Deep understanding of application, infrastructure and security architecture and non‑functional aspects like performance, scalability, reliability, availability.
- Experience in IaaS (with good fundamentals in network and security) and PaaS; good understanding of all Azure services and ability to choose the right service for a workload among multiple Azure services.
- Strategic business acumen and understanding of organizational strategy; ability to design information systems to deliver that strategy.
- Strong expertise in DevOps, Agile methodologies, containers, CI/CD and tools like VSTS, Jira.
- Experience with software and product development lifecycle (incl. coding, coding standards and reviews, source control, testing, debugging, build, deployment and operations).
- Familiarity with front‑end / UI technologies including frameworks such as React/Angular.js.
- Experience with REST/Webservices, SQL, XML, JSON, Linux, ELK stack, Splunk, Solr, GIT, Ant/Maven, Jenkins.
- Familiarity with data ingestion, analytics, AI technologies.
Qualifications
- At least 3‑5 years of deep technology experience at very large enterprises or web‑scale product companies.
- At least 3‑5 years of architecture, design, implementation and/or support of highly distributed applications (ensuring availability, reliability, etc.) on cloud.
- Experience in presenting ideas, papers, patents to varied audiences.
- Microsoft Azure related certifications (other cloud provider certifications such as AWS or Google Cloud accepted).
What We Look For
Highly motivated individuals with excellent problem‑solving skills, ability to prioritize shifting workloads in a rapidly changing industry, and effective communication. You should be a confident leader with strong people‑management skills and a genuine passion to make things happen.
Benefits
- Competitive remuneration package with individual and team performance rewards.
- Inclusive employer with flexible working arrangements.
- Continuous learning opportunities.
- Supportive leadership and coaching.
- Diverse and inclusive culture.
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