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Azure Cloud Lead

The Azure Cloud Lead is a pivotal role that blends market, sales and solutioning, people, and delivery excellence, helping clients to migrate to the cloud, modernize legacy applications and develop new cloud native applications to deliver real business value. Building and operating a resilient and secure cloud foundation, landing zones, data and applications platform to form the digital core. The Azure Could Lead is a pivotal role that blends market, sales and solutioning, people, and delivery excellence. This role owns the strategy that ensures the region Practice has the right capabilities to seize market advantage and is responsible for driving business growth, supporting sales development.

Come join us

In addition to relationships with clients and the practice community, this role collaborates with business leaders in the region from other practices, Solution Areas (SA), Business Groups (BG), Integrated Go-to-Market (IGTM), Sales, Client Service Leads.

What you’ll do

· Pro-actively work with Sales, Client Account, and Line of Business/Play Leads to identify, qualify, and prioritize opportunities that will drive additional sales and revenues.

· Provide support for sales development and closure including provision of insights, demonstrations, creation of proposals, delivery of client presentations and input into contracts.

· Provide expert solutioning support to assist with sales development/closure.

· Assist with the contextualization of the global go-to-market motions, e.g., Plays, so that they are relevant and have impact in the regional market.

· Sales and revenue targets for respective Solution Area.

· Drives Results, Ensures Accountability, Customer Focus.

Skills and experiences

Microsoft skills & Industry knowledge

· Strong Microsoft Azure knowledge in infrastructure and application resources in both IaaS and PaaS flavors: Virtual Machines, Storage, App Service, Functions, Batch, Automation, CDN, Caches, relational and non-relational databases, Site Recovery, backup, monitor…

· Strong skills in Azure networking: Virtual Networks, Gateways, Load Balancers, Express Route, Private Link, VPN, Front Door…

· Strong skills in Azure migrations for both, Lift & Shift and rehost/refactor strategies. Familiarity with Azure Migrate is expected.

· Governance in Azure via Policy, RBAC, Locks and Cost Management.

· Azure security services in all domains: identity (Azure AD), networking (NSG, ASG, Private Link, WAF, DoS protection), encryption (Encryption, Key Vault), SIEM (Sentinel)…

· Infrastructure as a Code via Azure Resource Manager or Terraform.

· Windows Server AND GNU/Linux system administrator skills.

· Scripting skills with PowerShell or GNU bash.

About you

Characteristics that can spell success for this role

· You have experience working with global teams.

· You have strong written and spoken English skills.

· You may possess a technical Degree in Computer Science, Telecommunications, any kind of Engineering or Maths.

· You may possess Microsoft Azure certifications.

Enjoy your career

Some of the best things about working at Avanade

· Opportunity to work for Microsoft’s Global Alliance Partner of the Year (14 years in a row), with exceptional development and training (minimum 80 hours per year for training and paid certifications)

· Real-time access to technical and skilled resources globally

· Dedicated career advisor to encourage your growth

· Engaged and helpful coworkers genuinely interested in you

Find out more about some of our benefits [1] here.

A great place to work

As you bring your skills and abilities to Avanade, you’ll get distinctive experiences, limitless learning, and ambitious growth in return. As we continue to build our diverse and inclusive culture, we become even more innovative and creative, helping us better serve our clients and communities. You’ll join a community of smart, supportive collaborators to lift, mentor, and guide you, and to lean on your expertise. You get a company purpose-built for business-critical, leading-edge technology solutions, committed to improving the way humans work, interact, and live. It’s all here, so take a closer look!

We work hard to provide an inclusive, diverse culture with a deep sense of belonging for all our employees. Visit our [2] Inclusion & Diversity page.

Create a future for our people that focuses on

• Expanding your thinking • Experimenting courageously • Learning and pivoting

Inspire greatness in our people by

• Empowering every voice • Encouraging boldness • Celebrating progress

Accelerate the impact of our people by

• Amazing the client • Prioritizing what matters • Acting as one

Learn more

To learn more about the types of projects our Security team works on check out this information:

[3] https://www.avanade.com/en/thinking/research-and-insights/avanade-presents/cybersecurity-for-nonprofits

[4] https://www.avanade.com/en/blogs/avanade-insights/security/catastrophic-cyber-attack

Interested in knowing what’s going on inside Avanade? Check out our blogs:

[5] Avanade Insights - exchange ideas that drive tomorrow’s innovation

[6] Inside Avanade - explore what life is like working at Avanade

References

Visible links

1. https://www.avanade.com/en-gb/career/benefits

2. https://www.avanade.com/en-us/about-avanade/inclusion-and-diversity

3. https://www.avanade.com/en/thinking/research-and-insights/avanade-presents/cybersecurity-for-nonprofits

4. https://www.avanade.com/en/blogs/avanade-insights/security/catastrophic-cyber-attack

5. https://www.avanade.com/en/blogs/avanade-insights

6. https://www.avanade.com/en/blogs/inside-avanade