Lead Project Engineer

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 Lead Project Engineer to join our professional services team here at Ekco, delivering transformational Public Cloud and Private Cloud migration and modernisation 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. 

Responsibilities 

• Leading the design, planning and implementation of Public and Private 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

• Driving the adoption of best practices within the professional services team

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

• Acting as an escalation point for project issues, taking ownership until the issue is resolved to the customers satisfaction 

• Regularly conducting 121s with the team, ensuring each team member has objectives and development plans in place 

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

• Ensuring KPI’s are hit for your team, reporting weekly & monthly to demonstrate this

About You:

• 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 Azure infrastructure services; Compute, Storage, Networking, Azure Virtual Desktop. 

• Experience managing or implementing Private Cloud services; IaaS deployments on managed datacentre platforms.

• Ability to collaborate with and manage diverse cross-functional teams for successful customer outcomes 

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

• Experience mentoring and developing a team of like-minded Professional Services engineers 

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

The Desirables:

• Experience architecting production environments across Physical, Virtualised and Cloud technologies

• Experience managing or implementing Microsoft 365 services; Entra ID and Conditional Access, Exchange Online, Intune, SharePoint. 

• Knowledge of DevOps best practices and CI/CD tools 

• Demonstratable knowledge of Terraform 

• 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