Principal Consultant Australia

**Principal Consultant**

SECTION6 is looking for a passionate and proactive Principal Consultant who has a solid track record in leading customer delivery teams taking a technical hands on approach.

**IMPORTANT - PLEASE TAKE NOTE**- _This role requires _**_eligibility for an Australian Government security clearance_**_, and able to meet the following eligibility requirements: _
- _Australian citizenship - determined by the sponsoring entity before requesting a clearance. _
- _Checkable background - determined by Australian Government Security Vetting Agency as part of the vetting assessment. Background check/ personal history verification for the previous 5 years._
- _The role requires _**_occasional travel to Canberra_**

S6 Core Values

At SECTION6, We openly share our knowledge and perspective. We do the right thing the right way. We seek and champion the best ideas. We challenge norms, embrace change, and we are united by a shared purpose.

What We Do

We are looking for the right people to join our mission, could this person be you?

What to Expect when joining SECTION6
- You will be a valued individual contributor and team member.
- You will contribute to shaping SECTION6's culture and together promote the behaviours that align with our shared values.
- Your knowledge and skills will be welcomed and recognised. They will be utilised to take our company to the next level.
- You will be challenged, encouraged to grow, and to you thrive.

About SECTION6
- We work exclusively with Essential Services Organisations across New Zealand and Australia, with plans of expanding into other geos.
Our teams are cross-functional and responsible for the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment.
- We guide our customers to accomplish their missions by leading the way in making complex software systems and delivery simple, reliable, and secure.

About the role

The Principal Consultant plays a key role and is the primary technical point of contact for select customers for establishing and maintaining successful customer relationships and for driving conversations around technical decisions. Through having an understanding of the technical landscape the Principal Consultant partners with the customers leadership team to develop and realise long-term strategies, with the aim of delivering visionary results.

**The role requires a depth and breadth of experience in the following**:

- Legacy and modern cloud-native architectures with Infrastructure-as-Code
- Configuration management tools, DevOps, CI/CD
- PaaS platforms
- Software-development -lifecycle (SDLC)

**To be successful in and suited to this role you are required to have**:

- 10+ years experience with a good portion of this gained within large Enterprise Organisations to enable you to understand the technical demands and to enable you to navigate difficult landscapes with various levels of hierarchy, stakeholders and operational procedures.
- You will need to be comfortable with ambiguity, be action-oriented, and able to work in a fast-paced environment.
- Have the ability to operate under pressure within dynamic, fluid environments and be constantly challenged.

As part of this role you will help to build the technical capability for our Australian region and work with the SECTION6 teams to scope, and win engagements in highly competitive environments, identifying opportunities where SECTION6 can contribute to and advance customer strategy objectives.

**Responsibilities**:

- Be the technical lead on, digital transformation project for our Australian clients.
- Work as a strategic partner to business leaders, helping them navigate uncertainty and risk to make informed decisions.
- Identify and capitalise on opportunities to augment and advance customer strategy.
- Leading technical teams to align with, and meet business objectives.
- Leading SECTION6 and customer delivery teams, you will track the progress of projects and continually seek opportunities for improvement, delighting customers by doing the right thing and exceeding expectations wherever possible.
- Identify and mitigate project risks and challenges.
- Implement a variety of mission critical greenfield and brownfield projects.
- Develop business proposals, functional and technical specifications and other documents where required.
- Design and implement CI/CD workflows, container platforms and automate all aspects of the SDLC, further enhancing and optimising release and repository management.
- Assist organisations with migrating workloads to public cloud IaaS and PaaS platforms, including OpenShift, Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud Platform, and contribute to open source projects.
- Engage with key stakeholders to understand and consider all the dimensions for creating the right solution, including the desired business outcome, business requirements, operational context, and the software-development -lifecycle (SDLC) suitable for each client.
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