Public Cloud Delivery Team Leader

Six Degrees is a leading secure, integrated cloud services provider, where everyone is welcome. We believe success lies in harnessing a truly diverse and inclusive culture.

Our business protects UK organisations with the goal of enabling them to operate effectively and securely in the cloud, by giving them secure platforms to innovate and grow. We support our customers on their digital transformation journey regardless of their maturity.

This role sits within the Six Degrees Professional Services Technical Delivery team, which is responsible for the delivery of consultancy & engineering services supporting clients with transition, transformation, and modernisation across Private Cloud, Public Cloud and Connectivity services.

The core focus of this role will be to provide consultation services to our customers on Azure solutions, supporting our customers with transition, transformation, and modernization. Supporting the Pre-Sales team with scoping, performing cloud assessments, creating low-level designs, and owning the solution through the delivery process. As a Team Leader you will be responsible for the day-to-day management of the Azure delivery team and a point of escalation for the engineers.

You should be a highly skilled professional - someone who is well-educated, dedicated, a quick learner, adaptable, and will be able to pick up a new technology with relative ease. You will need strong technical skills with Microsoft Azure and Microsoft Server technologies.

You will also need to be comfortable communicating regularly with clients. The role is customer facing and you will be expected to engage with external customers confidently and with passion. Although we need you to be technical adept, it is as important that every client feels we have given them 100% every time.

You will work closely with other teams and business units to support the development of Professional Services Public Cloud offerings.

Key Responsbilities

- Lead information gathering and design workshops in line with the Microsoft Cloud Adoption
Framework (CAF).

- Ownership of solution through delivery and supporting the engineers.

- Attending regular project meetings.

- Monitor progress of your activities within a project providing the Project Manager with feedback regarding the status of your tasks whilst being aware of time and budget constraints.

- Maintain technical knowledge and provide recommendations to changes in 6DG Standards where
necessary.

- Manage your own work effectively to meet the challenges of your role, ensuring you make the
most economic use of your time.

- Identify solutions, beneficial to clients, and highlight these to the relevant team

- Collaboration with PS Pre-Sales specialists on opportunity scoping and effort estimations

Experience

- Minimum of 3 years delivering within the Microsoft Azure platform.

- Excellent interpersonal skills, the ability to work cross functionally and interact confidently with multiple.

- Experience deploying and migrating to Microsoft Cloud solutions

- Experience working within a managed services or consultancy environment

Certificates

- Azure Administrator Associate (AZ- 103/104)

- Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ- 300/301/304)

- Azure Network Engineer (AZ-700)

Must Have:

- Azure DevOps Engineer (AZ-400)

- Azure Security Engineer (AZ-500)

- Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty (AZ-140)

Six Degrees has been honoured as an ENEI Silver TIDE Winner. We take pride in fostering and sustaining an inclusive culture, which is essential for our entire business.

This includes all aspects of recruitment and employment - our recruitment and selection processes are transparent and fair, and we will always consider any reasonable adjustments or flexible working requirements.

At Six Degrees we’ve created a female-led networking program that enables women within our organisation to interact and exchange ideas, share their experiences, and utilise one-to-one support. We are proud of initiating an outreach program that connects our female talent with external mentors. This ensures they can tap into new and different perspectives that will help them identify and achieve career goals at Six Degrees.

Our Benefits

In return for the passion our people bring to everything they do, we want them to enjoy a range of benefits that enrich their lives. We are a Real Living Wage employer, and through our additional employee benefits we feel we’ve got something that will help everybody live their best life.

We recognise the immense joy and significance of family leave for our employees, which is why Six Degrees provide an enhanced maternity and paternity leave package. We’re also keen to support people with flexible working, so everyone can have the personal time they need whilst still doing great work here at Six Degrees.

We have some fantastic benefits on offer, with everyone being given Private Medical Insurance, Life Assurance, a matched pension scheme and 25 days holiday and as a happy birthday from Six Degrees, all employees get a day off for their Birthday.

Throughout the business, our people have a causes and initiatives that they support and that is close to their heart. That’s why we give everyone the chance to volunteer one day year in addition to annual leave to make a difference.

What is more, we also make a contribution to any additional benefits you may wish to choose. Every Six Degrees employee has instant access to private medical care is available, as well as mental health and employee wellbeing support 24/7. Whether it’s a wellness benefit, such as gym benefits, fitness programmes and genetics wellness testing to our life benefits with discounted rates on travel, critical illness and dental insurance. We also provide discounts on well-known brands, in restaurants, supermarkets, the list goes on!