Modern Workplace Consultant

About Ekco

🚀 Founded in 2016 Ekco is now one of the fastest growing cloud solution providers in Europe! We specialise in enabling companies to progress along the path of cloud maturity, managing transformation and driving better outcomes from our customers’ existing technology investments. ☁️ In a few words, we take businesses to the cloud and back! 🌍 We have over 450 highly talented and supportive colleagues (and counting) across a number of regional offices in the UK, Benelux & Ireland.

About the role

We are looking for a talented and dedicated Modern Workplace Consultant to join our professional services team here at Ekco, delivering transformational Public Cloud modernisation and transformation projects to our customers. We are a multi-disciplinary, agile team of experts covering activities relating to consulting and engineering, closely collaborating with our business colleagues and customers to ensure the best possible service is delivered to our customers.

Requirements

• Leading the design, planning and implementation of Public Cloud projects for key Ekco clients

• Working closely with the Project Management team to deliver exceptional projects and solutions

• Creating detailed high-level and low-level design and project handover documents to communicate solutions to clients and Ekco’s service delivery teams

• Collaborating with business units and stakeholders across the architecture, commercial and technical teams to support the implementation of customer solutions

• Providing technical coaching to team members, ensuring that technical documentation is maintained in line with Ekco standards and policies  

About You You will have:

• A strong customer focus, with an ability to continually anticipate and meet customers’ needs, excelling in communicating at all levels within a customer organisation

• Excellent working knowledge of M365 technologies such as Intune, SharePoint, Teams (including Teams Voice)

• Demonstrable experience implementing data governance and data loss prevention within M365 using Microsoft Purview

• Possess a solid understanding of Microsoft Copilot to effectively guide organisations in leveraging its capabilities

• Experience working to ensure customer solutions and services comply with the relevant product standards and internal documentation (in accordance with ISO certification)

• A Minimum of 5 years’ experience working in a Professional Services role for a Cloud Managed Services provider

The Desirables

• Experience managing or implementing Microsoft 365 security solutions; Conditional Access, Microsoft Defender for Endpoint/Office 365/Identity/XDR

• Familiarity with Microsoft Power Platform

• Understanding of Service Management best practices frameworks such as ITIL

• Knowledge of on-premise networking principles and products and how they integrate with cloud services

Benefits/Perks

• ☀️ Time off - 25 days leave + public holidays

• 🎂 x1 day Birthday leave per year

• 💰 Company Pension Scheme (employer contribution 5%) + flexible salary sacrifice

• 📞 Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) - access to dedicated mental health, emotional wellbeing and general advice

• 🏃‍♀️ EkcOlympics - a global activity for fun!

• 📚 Learning & development - Unlimited access to Pluralsight learning platform

• 🌱 A lot of responsibilities & opportunities to grow (also internationally)

Why Ekco

• ⭐️ Microsoft’s 2023 Rising Star Security Partner of the year

• 🚀 VMware & Veeam top partner status