Description
Tank have been instructed by one of our global clients to recruit an Azure Infrastructure Architect based around AVS (Azure VMware Solutions). This is a fully remote contract for an initial 6 months and has been deemed inside IR35.
SC Clearance is essential.
Responsibilities:
- Work with the Customer to design a second Azure region to deliver the initial capability for DR and BC requirements for the ICCM application. Through the following activities:
- Help with the discovery and review of the Customer's Legacy RPO/RTO and other resilience needs for the service. Participate in the production of a pack for the Customer SDR4 design gate.
- Attend the SDR4 meeting to support the design review.
- Participate in the further development of the SDR4 conceptual design to the production of a pack for the customer SDR8 gate (production readiness governance).
- Attend the SDR8 meeting to support the production readiness review.
- Work with the Customer to design an Azure AVS service capable of hosting Legacy (VMware virtualised) applications to run on/through Tier 1 cloud, assisting with the following activities:
- Help with the discovery and review of the Customer's Legacy VMware service.
Skills:
Architecture, Detail Design and Deployment knowledge of the following:
- Azure Infrastructure: Creating, deploying and managing virtual machines, networks, storage, and other infrastructure components within Azure - Azure paired regions, local and remote HA, BC/DR, Azure site recovery.
- Automation and Scripting: Familiarity with automation tools and Scripting languages such as PowerShell, Python, and Terraform. Azure Security: Implementing and managing security features and controls within Azure to protect data and resources - including Microsoft defender for cloud, network security groups, defence in depth/zero trust.
- Azure Data Services: Storing, managing, and using Azure's various data services such as Azure SQL and storage accounts.
Knowledge of Architecting/designing AVS on Azure including the following:
- Azure Infrastructure: as above
- VMware Technologies: Strong understanding of VMwarevirtualization technologies such as vSphere, vSAN, NSX-T, and vRealize Suite.
- Networking: Knowledge of networking concepts and how to configure and manage network connectivity between on-premises and Azure infrastructure.
- Azure Infrastructure: as above
- Monitoring and Troubleshooting: Ability to monitor and troubleshoot AVS environment using various tools such as Azure Monitor, vRealize Operations, and vRealize Log Insight.
- Migration and Deployment: Understanding of migration methodologies and experience in deploying and managing VMware workloads on Azure infrastructure.
- AVS workload scalability.
If you think you would be a good fit for the role, then please apply with your up to date CV.