Principal Cloud & Infrastructure Consultant

The Principal Consultant is responsible for the high-quality delivery of consulting services to our customers, primarily focused on transformation projects and programmes. The PC leads a technical project team, providing direction, delegation of key activities and deliverables, ensures adherence to adopted delivery methodologies, and owns mitigation of technical risks and issues. Works with the delivery team and customer stakeholders to define and gain consensus on migration/transformation strategies, roadmaps and solutions. Through implementation design and execution, the PC acts as the technical design authority. The PC manages customer stakeholders through the lifecycle of a project, demonstrating our value and building trust in delivery capability. Able to interpret business requirements/goals and translate into technical solutions and outcomes. Experience of leading infrastructure and application migration/transformation initiatives. Broad knowledge of Cloud, Infrastructure & Security technical domains. Ability to effectively manage workshops with customers and delivery teams, taking ownership of workshop facilitation and goals. Excellent consulting and interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to influence and gain consensus. Experienced in engaging with senior customer stakeholders. Strong written and verbal communication skills – ability to deliver effective and persuasive presentations and opinions. Skills: Microsoft Entra (Active Directory) Microsoft 365 Administration (Tenant migration, configuration, policy, identity, security) Microsoft Windows Server build, deploy & automate Design and build PoC environments (M365 testing, Migrations etc.) Microsoft Azure Core Services – IaaS, Networking, Azure Security Centre, SSO etc. Experience : 3 to 5 years consulting experience, designing & delivering customer solutions 3+ years experience designing and deploying Microsoft 365 solutions 3+ years experience designing and deploying Entra (Active Directory) solutions 3+ years experience delivering infrastructure into Azure and on-premises environments Certifications: AZ-305 – Azure Solutions Architect Expert MS-102 – Microsoft 365 Certified: Administrator Expert or equivalent experience AZ-800/801 – Microsoft Certified: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate or equivalent