Principal Cloud Native Advisor

Company Description

Cloud Native Innovation Labs by Devoteam

Devoteam is a leading consulting firm with 25 years experience and more than 8,000 employees in Europe, Middle East and Africa. Part of our DNA, we strengthen Innovation and Entrepreneurship to accompany our customers in their digital transformation.

The IT world is currently massively adopting Cloud technologies and Devoteam is amongst the top European leaders with its 5 pillars around major hyperscalers such as AWS, Azure, GCP, ServiceNow and SalesForce. The current trends show the adoption of Cloud 3.0 with Cloud Native practices and technologies driving the hybrid and multi-Cloud acceleration from Private Clouds to Edge Clouds, of course going through Hyperscalers.

As recently stated by a major analyst firm, Industry Cloud Platforms along with Platform Engineering will be two of the Top 10 trends for 2023 directly impacting the way enterprises consume Cloud services. To help our customers in this new Cloud Native transformation and part of its "Infinite 2024" plan, Devoteam is launching a new capability, the Cloud Native Innovation Labs.

Those Labs mix both strong technical and consulting personnel to help their customers in :

• Leveraging new key Cloud Native technologies or companies such as Kubernetes, Hashicorp, GitLab…
• Adopting new Cloud Native ways of working such as Site Reliability Engineering, GitOps, Modern Testing...
• Rolling out Platform Engineering teams in charge of maintaining the Internal Business Platform to ease developers' life and reduce time to market
• Shaping the Cloud Native strategy and transformation plan to adopt those new operating models and transform their business applications to a platform model

Our Cloud Native Innovation Labs team will help customers from the initial inception phase down to the actual deployment of the Cloud Native capabilities.

Job Description

Your Roles & Responsibilities

As a Principal Cloud Native Advisor, you will be part of the Cloud Native Innovation Labs leadership team and will drive the executive relationship with our customers during their whole Cloud Native journey. You will also be accountable for the engagements to shape, define and execute the associated transformation programs.

Your activities will cover :

• Promote and deliver the Cloud Native Innovation Labs services with our customers from the initial discussions to the implementation of the Cloud Native boosters
• Act as a recognized thought leader on the Cloud Native Transformation as well as Platform Engineering topics
• Lead the Cloud Native technical teams working on infrastructure, application, operational and platform topics
• Work upfront with customers to understand their business, technical & transformation stakes around Cloud Native applications transformations
• Shape and present the propositions to accompany our customers through this journey at each phase of their adoption : Inception, Prototyping, Activation & Acceleration
• Act as a technical leader to coordinate all the Devoteam value accelerators to deliver the right value to our customers
• Maintain the long term relationship with our customers executives by acting as a “Trusted Advisor” in this Cloud Native journey
• Ensure the “At Scale” transition when handing over the acceleration to our managed services or application modernization teams
• Support the personal development of our young technical and consulting talents on both hard and soft skills required in this new Cloud 3.0 world
• Be accountable with the Cloud Native Innovation Labs director of the offerings roadmap
• Act as a key player of the extended Devoteam Distributed Cloud community working with our value accelerators as well as our 5 Cloud pillars

Qualifications

Your Background & Skills

You have more than 15 years experience both in technical and consulting roles including Cloud transformation programs, ideally including a CTO role. In particular, you experienced the transformation of business applications landscape and operating models with Cloud Native technologies such as containers, microservices, APIs…

In your career, you have been exposed to :

• Act as a CTO (Chief Technology Officer) on a major Cloud transformation program
• Drive large delivery technical teams on applications transformation programs
• Tackle the issues brought at the infrastructure and operational level by Cloud Native technologies
• Shape the application modernization programs by leveraging the 5 key pillars of Cloud Native transformation : Containers, Microservices, APIs, Orchestration and Modern Delivery
• Be a Trusted Advisor in front of the customer board, especially the IT board of directors
• Work with one or multiple major Public Cloud hyperscalers (AWS, Azure & GCP) as well as Private Cloud technologies leaders (RedHat, VMware)
• Deliver programs with modern agile ways of working with the associated methods and frameworks (Agile, Safe, Kanban, ITIL, Lean, TOGAF…)

On the required soft skills:

• Excellent oral and written communication skills in French and English
• Experience of working in a time-constrained environment
• Self-starter and highly motivated as well as analytical and logical
• Excellent organisation skills as well as communication and stakeholder management skills
• Excellent at working with a variety of stakeholders
• Strong team leader with the ability to work in multi-disciplinary teams
• … And of course be passionate about new Cloud technologies

And finally, as the next step of your career, you want to tackle the customer challenges raised by the new Business-as-a-Platform trends being part of a young, talented and dynamic team in an ambitious, entrepreneur-minded and innovative company, Devoteam.

Additional Information

"Le Groupe Devoteam œuvre pour l'égalité des chances, pour la promotion de ses collaboratrices et de ses collaborateurs au mérite et lutte activement contre toute forme de discrimination. Nous sommes persuadés que la diversité contribue à la créativité, au dynamisme et à l'excellence de notre organisation. Tous nos postes sont ouverts aux personnes en situation de handicap."