Lead Consultant - Cloud Infrastructure

Contractor - Cloud Infra Job

YASH Technologies is a leading technology integrator specializing in helping clients reimagine operating models, enhance competitiveness, optimize costs, foster exceptional stakeholder experiences, and drive business transformation.

 

At YASH, we’re a cluster of the brightest stars working with cutting-edge technologies. Our purpose is anchored in a single truth – bringing real positive changes in an increasingly virtual world and it drives us beyond generational gaps and disruptions of the future.

 

We are looking forward to hire Azure Professionals in the following areas :

 

Experience

10-13 Years

Job Description

• Participate in understanding customer requirements and provide tailored solutions.
• Manage upgrades, migrations, and Disaster Recovery (DR) test activities for multiple clients.
• Recommend changes to improve performance, capacity, and stability.
• Prepare Statements of Work (SOWs) and responses for Request for Proposals (RFPs); actively participate in defense meetings.
• Prepare and review Quarterly Business Review (QBR) data; participate in customer meetings.
• Provide actionable recommendations to improve Customer Satisfaction (CSAT) scores.
• Identify operational challenges and provide effective solutions.
• Suggest process improvements and tools recommendations to reduce support issues and improve efficiency and  uptime.
• Propose automation solutions using PowerShell scripting or other cost-effective tools.
• Conduct capacity planning and forecasting.
• Design ,recommend and implement domain and Data Centre (DC) consolidation strategies.
• Engage in account mining and identify new opportunities.
• Define strategies for cleanups and optimization.
• Handle escalations and conduct negotiations effectively.
• Handle IT Cloud Infrastructure L3 workloads.

Required Technical/ Functional Competencies

Infrastructure Management:

• Expert understanding of Infrastructure concepts on on-premise, cloud and support both.
• Execute infrastructure automation scripts, follow SOP and centralized process.
• Identify/resolve infrastructure issues, conduct impact analysis and RCA.

Change & Release Management:

• Expert knowledge of CR tool, CM activities, Release management activities.
• Monitor & improve effectiveness of CM process.
• Enforce CM activities, conduct change impact assessment.
• Manage any CRs excluded from SLA reporting.

Configuration Management:

• In-depth knowledge of configuration management tools/processes, release management tools/process.
• Manage CI life cycle & implement configuration management process.
• Ensure modifications to CMDB & monitor inconsistencies.
• Identify configurable items, support audit process, & define release scope.

Negotiation Skills:

• Awareness of negotiation Techniques while using right information.
• Understand key stakeholders & communicate individual requirements.
• Establish working-level relationships with third-party counterparts to resolve issues.

Audit and Compliance Management:

• Good knowledge of Audit Control Frameworks and audit process guidelines.
• Conduct audits, ensure compliance through various audit frameworks.

Estimation and Resource Planning:

• Awareness of estimation and resource planning techniques.
• Identify required resources and utilize suitable estimation models for low-medium complete scenarios.

Problem Management:

• Facilitate problem management process and assign owners to problem records.
• Initiate process for unsuccessful changes, conduct periodic reviews and resolve problem management ticket.

Service Level & Transition Management:

• Assist in SLA compliance/monitoring and provide procedures to restore services.
• Plan/Execute transition for large/complex activities and define standards in transition management.

Platform/ Technology Knowledge:

• Implement/configure/customize products, contribute to reusable assets and solutions.
• Analyze frameworks/tools, present recommendations and develop training materials.

Customer & Stakeholder Management:

• Working knowledge of customers' business domains/technology suite and Use latest technology, proactively suggest solutions to increase business, understand customer's business.

Organisational Awareness:

• Clearly understands vision/mission and overall objectives to relate to their responsibility areas. Contributes to and understands organisation’s overall strategy.

Requirement Gathering and Analysis:

• Working knowledge of requirement management processes and requirement analysis processes, tools & methodologies.
• Able to analyze the impact of change requested/ enhancement/ defect fix and identify dependencies or interrelationships among requirements & transition requirements for engagement.

Project & Delivery Management:

• In-depth knowledge of PM process/tools/templates and deal modeling, commercial and pricing models.
• Grow account, forecast revenues and analyze complex internal reports & manage 1 complex account (>10m) or multiple small account independently.

Required Behavioral Competencies

Accountability:

• Being a role model for taking initiative and ensuring others take initiative, removing obstacles for others, taking ownership for results and deadlines for self and others, and acting as a role model for being responsible.

Agility:

• Works with a diverse set of situations, people and groups and adapts and motivates self and team to thrive in changing environment.

Collaboration:

• Reaches out to others in team to ensure connections are made and team members are working together.
• Looks for ways to integrate work with other teams, identifying similarities and opportunities, making necessary changes in work to ensure successful integration.

Customer Focus:

• Engages in executive customer discovery to predict future needs of customers and drives customer relationships with a long-term focus and takes actions to enhance customer loyalty.

Communication:

• Communicates and presents complex ideas, information, and data to multiple, broad, and demanding stakeholders internal and/or external to the Organization.
• Helps others communicate better with their audience. Demonstrates honest, direct, and transparent communication and facilitates conversations within the team and its close collaborators.

Drives Results:

• Proactively seeks challenging and differentiated opportunities and drives and motivates team members to take on more responsibility.

Resolves Conflict:

• Balances the business interests of all stakeholders and manages any conflicts offering mutually beneficial options.

Certifications

AZ-305: Designing Microsoft Azure Infrastructure SolutionsAWS - SAP-CO2: AWS Certified Solutions Architect ProfessionalGoogle Cloud ArchitectOracle Cloud Architect ProfessionalGood to Have: ANS-C01: AWS Certified Advanced Networking - SpecialtyTOGAF V2 Certification

 

At YASH, you are empowered to create a career that will take you to where you want to go while working in an inclusive team environment. We leverage career-oriented skilling models and optimize our collective intelligence aided with technology for continuous learning, unlearning, and relearning at a rapid pace and scale.

 

Our Hyperlearning workplace is grounded upon four principles

• Flexible work arrangements, Free spirit, and emotional positivity
• Agile self-determination, trust, transparency, and open collaboration
• All Support needed for the realization of business goals,
• Stable employment with a great atmosphere and ethical corporate culture

Experience Level

Senior Level