Strategy and Cloud Services

Version 1 has celebrated 30 years in business and continues to be trusted by global brands to deliver technology and transformation solutions that drive customer success. Our deep expertise enables our customers to navigate the rapidly evolving technology landscape. We foster strong partnerships with global technology leaders including Microsoft, AWS, Oracle, Red Hat, OutSystems, Snowflake, ensuring that our customers are provided with the highest quality solutions and services.  

 We’re an award-winning employer reflecting how our employees are at the very heart of  what we do:  

• UK & Ireland's premier AWS, Microsoft & Oracle partner  

• 3300+ strong, €350/£300m revenue business  

• 10+ years as a Great Place to Work in Ireland & UK  

• Best Workplace for Women in the UK & Ireland by GPTW  

• Best Workplace for Wellbeing in the UK by GPTW  

We’re a core values driven company, we hire people who share our values, and we reward those who display and foster them, it’s deeply embedded within our DNA. Invest in us and we’ll invest in you!. 

This is an exciting opportunity for an experienced Microsoft Azure consultant to join our Public Sector Practice. Version 1 have had continued success working with our customers to deliver value, innovation, and excellence.

The ideal candidate will have a proven track record with Azure technologies with demonstrable experience in designing and deploying highly available, performant, and secure solutions for enterprise customers. You will have experience of working with DevOps tooling to deploy Cloud native solutions and services and be passionate about continual learning and development to keep track of emerging technology.

Ideally coming from a consulting background, you will be an excellent communicator, with ability to clearly create and communicate technical designs, issues, and resolutions to both technical and non-technical audiences. You will have good commercial awareness and be able to articulate the commercial impacts of technical challenges and opportunities. You will be able to effectively collaborate with others, obtain buy-in for your delivery approaches and manage your own priorities and performance to deliver high quality, highly performant solutions to our customers.

As a consultant you will have the opportunity to lead projects and develop trusted relationships with our customers across the UK and Ireland and play a leading role in our growing team.

Your main responsibilities will be:

• Provide technical leadership within project delivery, and when consulting with customers.
• Leading conversations with customers to understand requirements and identify solutions and opportunities.
• Design and delivery of Cloud native solutions.
• Implementing DevOps processes and tooling for the delivery of IaaS and PaaS services using IaC in the public cloud for enterprise scale customers.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines for the delivery of applications to public cloud services.
• Producing high-quality documentation.
• Contribute to technical decisions and team development initiatives in a collaborative environment.

• Demonstrable experience as a consult engaging with senior stakeholders.
• 4 Years of Experience of working with customers to design and implement solutions that are scalable, resilient, efficient, and secure.
• Strong hands-on experience with Azure PaaS and IaaS services.
• Desirable experience with DevOps tooling such as Terraform, Azure DevOps etc.
• Strong understanding of networking and infrastructure principles.
• Strong understanding of security best practices.
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Passionate about continual learning and development to keep abreast of emerging cloud technologies.
• Azure Administration Certification desirable.

Why Version 1?  

 At Version 1, we believe in providing our employees with a comprehensive benefits package that prioritises their wellbeing, professional growth, and financial stability.  

• Share in our success with our Quarterly Performance-Related Profit Share Scheme, where employees collectively benefit from a share of our company's profits  

• Strong Career Progression & mentorship coaching through our Strength in Balance & Leadership schemes with a dedicated quarterly Pathways Career Development programme  

• Flexible/remote working, Version 1 is tremendously understanding of life events and people’s individual circumstances and offer flexibility to help achieve a healthy work life balance  

• Financial Wellbeing initiatives including; Pension, Private Healthcare Cover, Life Assurance, Financial advice and an Employee Discount scheme  

• Employee Wellbeing schemes including Gym Discounts, Bike to Work, Fitness classes, Mindfulness Workshops, Employee Assistance Programme and much more. Generous holiday allowance, enhanced maternity/paternity leave, marriage/civil partnership leave and special leave policies  

• Educational assistance, incentivised certifications, and accreditations, including AWS, Microsoft, Oracle, and Red Hat  

• Reward schemes including Version 1’s Annual Excellence Awards & ‘Call-Out’ platform.  

• Environment, Social and Community First initiatives allow you to get involved in local fundraising and development opportunities as part of fostering our diversity, inclusion and belonging schemes.  

And many more exciting benefits… drop us a note to find out more.     

Version 1 is an equal opportunities employer.  

We are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and respectful workplace where everyone feels valued and able to thrive. We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, identities and lived experiences, and we value the different perspectives people bring including those shaped by disability and neurodiversity.  

We want every candidate to have a positive and accessible recruitment experience. If you need reasonable adjustments at any stage of the process, please contact your recruiter at Version 1. We will consider all requests carefully, respectfully and confidentially.  

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