Senior Technical Consultant – Cloud & Platform Engineering

🕒 August 20

🇮🇳 India – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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AHEAD

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1001 - 5000 employees

💼 Consulting

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🏢 Enterprise

💰 $5.7M Venture Round - AHEAD on 2024-05

Consulting • Artificial Intelligence • Enterprise

AHEAD is a technology consulting and systems-integration firm that accelerates digital transformation by engineering integrated solutions across infrastructure, applications, data, and security. The company specializes in AI transformation and AI-enabled infrastructure, data platform and platform/workload modernization, secure and resilient architectures, operational excellence, and managed services including IT lifecycle and procurement (AHEAD Hatch) and hardware integration (AHEAD Foundry). AHEAD delivers end-to-end services from strategy and financial consulting to build and run operations, partners with major cloud and infrastructure vendors (AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft, Cisco, Dell, VMware, NVIDIA, ServiceNow, Palo Alto Networks, Rubrik, etc. ), and serves enterprise clients across industries such as healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, retail, and public sector.

📋 Description

• Own every engagement end to end as Engagement Lead, from kickoff through executive readout • Serve as the primary customer point of contact and single point of accountability for delivery • Set success criteria, manage change control, and align stakeholders on outcomes and boundaries • Run standups, status reporting, stakeholder and steering reviews, RAID management, and decision logs • Resolve engagement risks before they threaten scope, timeline, or client relationships • Drive quality control through peer reviews and readiness checks on client-facing deliverables • Lead a 2–3 person pod across discovery, analysis, and executive readout • Plan staffing, set pod-member goals, provide coaching and feedback, and manage utilization • Maintain engagement risks, decisions, and artifact version control • Drive technical discovery and analysis across multi-cloud, platform engineering, identity, networking, security, and application/data domains • Produce prioritized recommendations, effort sizing, and sequenced roadmaps • Translate findings into executive-ready narratives tied to business outcomes • Implement AI-driven solutions to reduce toil and accelerate insight • Capture and evolve delivery collateral and incorporate it into the Rapid Solutions playbook • Define and refine Rapid Solutions offerings, playbooks, templates, and delivery standards • Partner with practice leaders to align standards with AHEAD delivery frameworks and cross-practice initiatives

🎯 Requirements

• 7+ years of relevant experience • Experience in engagement leadership • Experience leading end-to-end client engagements from kickoff through executive readout • Experience managing scope, statements of work, change control, governance, status reporting, stakeholder and steering reviews, RAID management, and decision logs • Experience resolving engagement risks and escalating issues • Experience with quality control, peer reviews, and readiness checks for client-facing deliverables • Experience leading and staffing a 2–3 person pod • Experience setting goals and providing structured coaching and feedback • Experience managing utilization and forecasting staffing needs • Experience with multi-cloud environments: AWS, Azure, and GCP • Knowledge of platform engineering, identity, networking, security, and application/data domains • Experience producing prioritized recommendations, effort sizing, and sequenced roadmaps • Experience translating technical findings into executive-ready narratives tied to business outcomes • Experience implementing AI-driven solutions • Experience developing playbooks, templates, scoring rubrics, questionnaires, and delivery standards

🏖️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance coverage for employees, with options to extend coverage to dependents • Paid time off and company holidays, along with additional leave benefits as per policy • Flexible work arrangements, supporting work-life balance • Learning and development opportunities to support continuous growth and upskilling • Employee wellness initiatives and programs focused on physical and mental well-being • Retirement and statutory benefits in line with India regulations • Inclusive and people-first culture, with a strong focus on collaboration and ownership • Cross department training and development • Sponsoring certifications and credentials for continued learning