Lead Consultant

**Hi, we're' Telstra Purple** People bringing purpose to technology.

We're Australia's largest owned technology services business, focused on outcome-based, transformative tech solutions that help our customers cut through IT complexity to achieve their bespoke goals faster. If solving unique problems sparks your interest in helping change a business, a community or the environment for the better - we're' in sync.

**The opportunity**

Do terms like Cloud Adoption Framework, governance, and secure cloud infrastructure deployment using IaC excite you? Are you passionate about solving business problems with technology? Well, you're the kind of techie we're happy to get on board.

We're looking for a seasoned Azure Consultant to join our public cloud team in Melbourne. We'd love a real team player who loves hands-on delivery but is also really comfortable in pre-sales, designing and delivering public cloud solutions to our external customers. Our team loves collaborating and learning from one another and is genuinely passionate about technology.

**Responsibilities**
- Use your consulting skills to provide our customers with the best technical solutions to enable their business by leveraging your understanding of the customer requirements to scope best practices and leading workshops.
- Lead the design, development and delivery of technology consulting engagements; providing technical authority for the overall design, approach and customer deliverables and producing exemplary technical and non-technical documentation for customers
- Act as a central point of customer contact for technical communications and escalations, and leverage your deep experience and lessons learned to develop issue mitigation strategies and support your team in resolving risks to service delivery
- Engage and manage key stakeholder relationships both internally (e.g. across Telstra Purple Sales, Delivery) and externally with customers) to deliver outstanding solutions.

**About you**
- You're a seasoned professional with proven experience in pre-sales, consulting, design and implementation.
- Fundamentally strong on cloud identity solutions and implementing them securely
- Proven track record on end-to-end delivery of cloud-based projects in Public Cloud migration,
- Proven experience in Cloud Computing (Public/Multi/Hybrid)
- Understands Infrastructure as Code and DevOps to build repeatable and automated deployments.
- Proven hands-on skills in Azure Services
- Experience in capacity planning and cost optimisation techniques
- Experience with Azure Sentinel and Microsoft Defender for Cloud is highly desirable
- Scripting tools like PowerShell, JSON and YAML to automate solutions is a plus
- Knowledge and experience with complexities of migration and transformation within Enterprise and Government environments
- You have industry certifications like Azure Solutions Expert or similar

**What we offer**
- 15 dedicated days per year for professional development; meaning you don't have to use your holiday allowance to upskill + study
- A Toolkit allowance of $4200 to spend on your personalised toolkit, renewed every 2 years
- Access to the $10,000 Short Term Incentive plan
- 15 days paid personal/carers leave per year
- 16 weeks of paid parental leave for both primary and secondary carers
- Work-life integration - we understand life happens when you're busy making other plans
- 20GB Hotspot to enable you to work from anywhere
- Work/life enablement; so you can balance work + life's other responsibilities
- An epic (free) Telstra mobile phone plan
- An extra 'Purple Day' per year, for you to take off and spend as you like
- Purchased Annual Leave scheme
- 25% discount on Telstra products and services

**Why Telstra Purple**

Our people are at the heart of our business - a uniquely talented community of business-minded and tech experts helping businesses cut through IT complexity to achieve their unique goals faster.