What we are looking for? This is a unique opportunity for a senior technologist with an entrepreneurial spirit to get involved in an exciting start-up position. As the Head of Cloud Platforms for Germany your primary role will be establish us in the local market, and prepare the business for enduring growth. You can use what we have achieved from our base in the UK as a building block for our European dream. To fully leverage our top tier partnership Amazon you will be responsible for establishing a strong technical relationship with the local engineering teams. At this time you will also provide the consulting and technology prowess to help sell and deliver our first projects in the local market. Your next challenge will be to recruit, build and lead a "world class" technical team to execute our projects in the German operation. You will also be expected to execute at an individual level in the beginning. In most of our engagements our technical peers on the customer's side are CTOs and CIOs, and you will be expected to have experience of dealing with people at this level. You will be a member of the Cloudreach management team responsible for your region and expected to be able to contribute to the strategy and vision of the business beyond your function as a technical manager. Cloudreach is looking for an inspirational technical manager with around 10 years industry experience who are keen to grow their skills with this emerging technology. We are looking for commercially astute managers who are capable of working directly with senior clients to build relationships and deliver the many benefits of cloud solutions. Given the diverse nature of our work you will have a real desire to understand a wide range of technologies and systems. You'll work with friendly and smart colleagues in the Platforms team, focusing predominantly on Amazon Web Services deployment projects. In some projects you may work as the project manager, in others you'll work as the sponsor - overseeing activities and providing governance. You will have the commercial and planning skills of a project manager, combined with the team leadership and commercial talent to drive project success and business expansion. Take a look at our employee LinkedIn profiles to see the backgrounds we hire from. Some work will be on site with customers - predominantly, but not exclusively, located around your main office location - but we are not a typical consulting organisation so you'll spend a lot of time in the office as well where you can share knowledge with - and learn from - your colleagues. You will be working in the following areas (and more!): Green field projects focusing on Amazon Web Services infrastructure (EC2, VPC, etc), i.e. looking at an existing service or data centre and then working with your technical team to architect a more effective solution in the cloud Enhancing and refining our processes - we believe in continuous feedback and you'll meet 1-1 with your team on a weekly basis to aid this In line with the above point, you'll ensure your team is a well oiled engineering and consulting machine - without the red tape one might associate with a traditional consulting organisation Business generation. Using your relationship management skills, you'll make contacts within major enterprises to ensure they keep coming back to Cloudreach for more of our services Recruitment! We need more people to deliver our projects, and you'll play a key role in helping to select them We will train and certify you on Google deployment best practices, and also provide expert assistance to get you up to speed with Amazon Web Services. The skills you'll learn at Cloudreach are in real demand in the market and will be a major asset on your CV (not that you'll ever want to leave Cloudreach!).