Sydney / Melbourne / Brisbane

What do we expect from our Lead Consultants:

We want passionate consultants to help us grow our reputation in the marketplace by delivering high quality consulting services to our clients. As a Lead Consultant in our business, you will develop and grow trusted relationships with clients, which complement the company’s commercial and strategic relationships , whilst mentoring other team members. You’ll contribute to the development of our core platform and patterns to meet current and future client requirements. 

In your role as a Lead Consultant, you will:

• Provide consulting services that combine architectural vision with hands-on technical experience using some of the latest cloud technologies and methods
• Design, develop, build and operate sophisticated and highly automated secure AWS and Hybrid infrastructure that adheres with Industry compliance standards
• Use software development and Software Configuration Management (SCM), DevOps and Continuous Integration methods to build, configure and manage the infrastructure
• Define and drive new architectures based on the applicable regulatory compliance standards and work with multiple stakeholders to gain endorsement
• End to end ownership of projects and solutions at the client site; including management a project team of up 10 consultants
• Perform troubleshooting, analysis and resolve issues as needed to achieve project outcomes
• Liaise with the project team, clients, vendors and stakeholders using multiple communication channels to manage the delivery of the project
• Establish and maintain relationships with clients as a source of informed, reliable, professional advice about solution options based on the consultant’s specific skills and knowledge.
• Identify and completes tasks with minimal supervision and provides oversight and guidance to all level consultants
• Willingness to continually upskill; including learning new technologies and obtaining new certifications
• Build, recognise and promptly advise of potential follow-on business opportunities.

What you’ll need to be successful:

• Good written & verbal communication skills, including strong stakeholder management, presentation and communication skills 
• Ability to identify trends within their practice relating to products and services and communicate them effectively to the wider practice.
• Bring a positive can-do attitude to the team
• Ability to lead and mentor others where appropriate 
• In order to excel in this consulting role, you need to have excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

What tech you’ll need to know:

• Infrastructure as code - Terraform or CDK
• Container technologies - Docker, Kubernetes, ECS
• Serverless technologies - Serverless framework,
• Scripting and automating - Golang, Bash and/or Python
• Containerising applications and securing container workloads in the cloud
• Experience with observability implementation and management
• CI/CD tooling - Gitlab-CI, BuildKite, AzureDevOps, GitHub Actions
• AWS professional certifications
• Scripting - Powershell
• Windows - Server 2008,2012,2016,2019, 2022 (highly desirable)
• General windows sys admin and troubleshooting experience 

We value diverse skill-sets, and don’t necessarily require that you have all of the above. If you feel you cover roughly 70 – 80 % of the experiences/skills listed we still encourage you to apply or get in touch.

What you can expect from us:

• We know you won’t have one job for life. At Mantel Group we believe in supporting our team to take their career in a direction that aligns with their passions. We have internal opportunities across Cloud, Data, Security and Digital.
• You’ll get all the tools you need to hit the ground running including a new phone, laptop & swag. 
• We believe in unique experiences for all. Our My Deal program allows you to tailor your yearly plan, with the support of your Leader, to decide on what’s most important to you. That might be extra professional development, extra annual or parental leave, time to work on your side hustle, or something else completely different! One size does not fit all.
• You’ll be genuinely supported by an organisation that cares about not only you but your family as well, Mantel Group offers Flexible Personal Leave options for those unplanned moments in life.
• We support a flexible hybrid approach to working which is guided by our principles; we trust each other to “make good choices” about the best workplace locations for the requirements of the project, role and client. This can change based on our client needs.

We value a diverse workplace and strongly encourage people from all backgrounds and minority groups to apply.