Job Description
Principal Cloud & Infrastructure Solution Consultant
We are looking for a Principal Cloud and Infrastructure Solution Consultant to join CACI. We aim to be a trusted advisor to our customers at all engaged levels, giving a clear-eyed, data-driven view of the challenge at hand.
A Cloud and Infrastructure consulting and engineering background is required for this role; key activities include internal and external strategic consulting, planning and solution leadership, Cloud and Infrastructure product management, service design and transition. Bid support and pre-sales experience.
Key Responsibilities
* Technical Leadership: Direct the efforts of multi-disciplinary teams to deliver customer projects. Provide deep knowledge of public cloud, VMware virtualisation, domain services, and infrastructure architecture. Maintain awareness of industry trends.
* Stakeholder Engagement: Synthesise information from a variety of sources into a clear high-level management overview. Communicate technical concepts clearly to stakeholders at all levels, enabling them to make informed decisions.
* Technology Consultancy: Engage with business stakeholders and end users to identify issues and present high-level solutions with recommendations to management. Clear and professional written communication pitched appropriately to business or technical stakeholders is essential. Once a solution has been selected, produce or oversee the creation of high- and low-level designs to support delivery.
* Service Development: Help to define and develop CACI's cloud services, detailing the offering, approach, benefits, and capability requirements as they evolve within the market.
* Collaboration and Development: Work with project teams composed of CACI and customer colleagues to ensure smooth interaction with customer teams and develop designs. Mentor and develop senior CACI engineers.
Key Skills & Experience
* Strong written and presentational skills.
* Technical background focusing on virtualisation, cloud, and DevOps/IaC principles.
* Logical approach to technical challenges.
* Supporting bid work in pre-sales involves providing technical expertise, strategic, and administrative support to win new business, often acting as a trusted advisor to clients. Key activities include qualifying opportunities, developing tailored solutions, crafting proposals, conducting demos, and analysing competition. Pre-sales enhances sales by bridging technical needs with commercial goals.
* Capable management of skilled engineering teams (direction, not line management).
* Strong relationship building skills, able to both lead projects to successful conclusions and navigate struggling projects through troubled times.
* A degree of business acumen sufficient to engage at with other disciplines and at higher management levels.
Desirable Skills & Experience
* Cloud Solution Consulting
* Cloud Service Definition and Design
* ITT/RFP Cloud Solution Support
Qualifications
This role would suit a candidate with exposure to a broad range of technologies. They might have (or have had) these certifications:
* VMware vSphere or Operations certifications
* VCP - VMware Cloud Foundation Administrator 2V0-17.25
* VCP - vSphere Foundation Administrator 2V0-16.25
* VCP - VMware Cloud Foundation Architect 2V0-13.25
* VCAP - Cloud Foundation 9.0 Operations 3V0-22.25
* Azure Solutions Architect, Network Engineer, or Security Engineer
* Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305)
* Microsoft Certified: DevOps Engineer Expert (AZ-400)
* AWS Architect, Engineer (AWS-SAA, AWS-SOA)
* Solutions Architect - Associate C03
* Solutions Architect - Professional C02
* CloudOps Engineer - Associate
* Terraform, Git, or other DevOps tool certifications.
* Windows and/or Linux Operations certifications (eg, MCSE, RHCSA, LPIC)
* Cisco networking and security certifications (eg, CCNA-DC, CCNP-DC)
Training
CACI Network Services develops individuals through a portfolio of training and development options such as certified training courses, workshops, technical conferences, boot camps, on-line training and much more. You will have the opportunity to work on some of the most advanced networking hardware in the industry as well as development of your abilities and talents to become one of the best in the field.
Flexibility
The key to our success is our teamwork and collaboration. We take a hybrid approach – working remotely and coming into the office depending on the business demand and collaboration required as part of the delivery process.
Benefits
* Competitive salary
* Target based commission package
* Matched pension contributions up to 5%
* Life Insurance
* Personal Accident Insurance
* Private Health Insurance from 2nd anniversary
* Sickness & Disability income protection from 3rd anniversary
* On site gym membership at our Kensington Office.
Equal opportunities
CACI is proud to be an equal employer. Embracing the diversity of our people, we are on a journey to build a truly inclusive work environment where no one is treated less favourably due to ethnic origin, age, gender, veteran status, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marital status, and disability or health condition, actively working to prevent discrimination.
As a Disability Confident employer, we will:
* Provide reasonable adjustments in the recruitment process where requested (contact a member of the recruitment team on 020 7602 6000 to discuss individual requirements further).
* Offer people with health conditions and disabilities, meeting the minimum criteria for a role, an interview.
* Our people are unique, and we encourage, and support them, to be confident in contributing to our inclusion journey.