Principal Cloud Engineer

Our Principal Cloud Engineers are responsible for leading and delivering strategically significant, complex client engagements across our portfolio of clients.

We believe that great delivery stems from a thorough understanding of our clients and their needs, strong discipline skills and subject matter expertise, excellent leadership and a clear vision of lasting and effective change in a public sector environment. We expect our Principal Cloud Engineers to bring all of that and enthuse our delivery teams with the same passion.

The successful candidate will lead the Cloud Engineering aspects of our client engagements while overseeing the wider delivery within the account (or industry) when appropriate. They will coach and develop team members on their engagements providing them with detailed performance feedback, as well as monitoring overall delivery to achieve the highest levels of client satisfaction.

In addition, our Principal Cloud Engineers are responsible for engaging with our clients to understand their challenges and build lasting, trusted advisor relationships. They will also oversee multiple, concurrent client deliveries to help ensure quality and drive the sharing of best practice across our engagements and industries.

Our Principal Cloud Engineers are members of the Cloud Engineering Practice leadership team with the responsibility to develop the capability of the practice to meet business needs and to accelerate the growth of the practice, their account and the wider business.

You will be responsible for the practice and service line-specific delivery elements of your engagement/account as well as a shared ownership for the overall delivery of client outcomes. You will leverage your client and delivery insight to support the account and industry teams to identify opportunities and develop client solutions.

The right person for this role will do this by combining their technical discipline/craft experience, leadership skills and industry network with Made Tech's unparalleled experience of delivering digital services and digital transformation for the Public Sector.

Key responsibilities

• Collaborate with clients to understand their needs, provide solution advice in your role as a trusted advisor and shape solutions that leverage Made Tech's wider capabilities and credentials.
• Assess project performance as a part of the billable delivery team, Quality Assure (QA) the deliverables and outcomes, and ensure client satisfaction. Coach and mentor team members as well as providing direction to enable them to achieve their engagement outcomes and to develop their careers.
• Act as a Technical Authority (of your appropriate capability) to provide oversight and ensure alignment with internal and industry best practices. Ensure engagement experience is captured and used to improve standards and contribute to Made Tech knowledge.
• Participate in business development activities, including bids and pre-sales within the account, industry and practice. Coach team members on their contributions and oversee the relevant technical aspects of the proposal submission.
• Undertake people management responsibilities, including performance reviews and professional development of your engagement and practice colleagues.
• Serve as a thought leader within Made Tech, our account engagements and the wider public sector and represent the company at industry events.

Skills, knowledge and expertise

Client

• Understanding of the issues and challenges that the public sector faces in delivering services that make the best use of data and digital capabilities, transforming legacy infrastructure, and taking an innovative and user-centric approach.
• Ability to innovate and take learnings from the commercial sector, other countries and advances in technology and apply them to UK Public Sector challenges to create tangible solutions for our clients.
• Experience building trusted advisor relationships with senior client stakeholders within the public sector.

Leadership

• Experience of building and leading high performing, consulting teams and creating the leveraged engagements to provide a cost-effective, profitable, successful client-facing delivery.
• Leadership of bids and solution shaping to produce compelling proposals that help Made Tech win new business and grow the industry.
• Experience of managing third-party partnerships and suppliers (in conjunction with Made Tech colleagues) to provide a consolidated and seamless delivery team to clients.

People Management

• Ambassadors of belonging at Made Tech, advocating and championing organisational commitments and priorities, recognising their role in modelling the way and embodying our values.
• Compelling communicators, ensuring key information is swiftly cascaded, understood, and feedback gathered and shared.
• Using their coaching skills to enable people to be their best, regularly and routinely providing meaningful, positive and constructive feedback.
• Make decisions that support the best interests of the business while recognising that our people are its foundation. Strive to achieve the best outcomes for individuals through persuasive and persistent efforts, ensuring these decisions uphold both the short- and long-term sustainability of the business.
• Inspire innovation and spark curiosity, encourage people to be positively disruptive and challenge the status quo.
• Seek collective success above personal glory, strive to ensure a constant culture of inclusion, trust and transparency.
• Lead your direct reports and positively influence the wider organisation as an inspiring people manager in line with our people manager objectives and key results.

Practice

• Experience in delivering complex and difficult engagements that span multiple capabilities for user-facing digital and data services in the public sector.
• Experience in identifying opportunities based on client needs and developing targeted solutions to progress the development of the opportunity.
• Experience of working with sales professionals and commercial responsibility for strategic organisational goals.
• An expert-level understanding of DevOps, SRE and Platform Engineering, and their places within a modern digital organisation.
• A deep knowledge of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure and GCP, as well as multi-cloud configurations, and many design patterns for different circumstances.
• Deep experience with containerisation and orchestration tools (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes), including administration and tuning.
• Experience architecting cloud infrastructure across the software lifecycle, building new systems, taking them through to deployment and support, and decommissioning older systems cleanly.
• A proven track record of consultancy on cloud technologies, treated by clients as a recognised technical advisor.
• Experience working within multidisciplinary teams with product, design, and technical disciplines all successfully collaborating.
• Experience of having worked directly with Cloud vendors, including as part of vendor partner programs, such as AWS APN and Azure Partners.
• Expert-level knowledge of well-architected frameworks and vendor-endorsed best practices.
• Relevant cloud certifications at the expert / practitioner level.
• Knowledge of UK public sector technology guidance and frameworks, such as NCSC’s Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF) and the Technology Code of Practice (TCoP).