AVS (Azure VMWare Solution) Architect
Posted 1 day ago by RED Global
Negotiable
Undetermined
Hybrid
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The AVS Architect role involves leading complex infrastructure deployments and migrations for large enterprise customers, specifically transitioning from on-premises VMware environments to Azure VMware Solution. The position requires extensive experience in IT, particularly with Azure and VMware technologies, and entails collaboration with various stakeholders to define requirements and strategies. The successful candidate will also be responsible for knowledge sharing and training within the organization. This is a 12-month contract with hybrid working arrangements.
Key Responsibilities:
- Partner with program managers and service delivery teams to plan, architect, and guide complex infrastructure deployments and migrations.
- Work directly with customer application, infrastructure, and security stakeholders to define requirements, strategy, and processes.
- Maintain knowledge of the latest Azure/AVS and VMware products to propose designs to customers.
- Act as a subject matter trainer for other specialists and share knowledge through solution documents.
- Engage technical communities, build automated self-help solutions, and create training materials.
Key Skills:
- 12+ years of IT experience.
- Minimum 3 years of experience on Azure VMware Solution.
- 5+ years of experience on VMware vSphere, Azure cloud services deployments, and cloud migrations.
- Experience in architecting and designing datacentre and cloud infrastructures using VMware and Microsoft technologies.
- Knowledge of VMware HCX, NSX-T, vSAN, Site Recovery Manager, and Azure networking.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
AVS Architect 12 Month Contract London - Hybrid Working (2 days per week in office) 12+ years of IT experience and minimum 3 years of experience on Azure VMware Solution and 5+ years of experience on VMware vSphere, Azure cloud services deployments, and cloud migrations.
Responsibilities
- You will partner with program managers and service delivery teams to plan, architect, and guide complex infrastructure deployments and migrations for large enterprise customers, moving customers from on-premises VMware environments to Azure VMware Solution.
- You will work directly with customer application, infrastructure, and security stakeholders to define requirements, strategy and processes for successful design, deployment & migrations.
- Maintain knowledge of the latest on Azure/AVS and VMware products in order to propose designs to customers and act as subject matter trainer for other specialists.
- Share knowledge with others through solution documents, engage technical communities, build automated self-help solutions, and create training.
Successful Candidate Competencies:
- Relevant experience in architecting and designing datacentre and cloud infrastructures using VMware and Microsoft technologies.
- Knowledge and implementation experience designing and developing solutions using VMware’s Core Cloud Infrastructure Technical Skills Azure VMware Solution VMware vSphere 6.0 and above.
- VMware HCX Advanced & Enterprise Experience with on-premises-to-Cloud or cloud-to-cloud migrations with VMware HCX VMware NSX-T network virtualization technologies.
- NSX edge services (DNS, DHCP, Gateway Firewall, Distributed Firewall) NSX implementation NSX migration from vlan or NSX-v VMware vSAN VMware Site Recovery Manager & vSphere Replication.
- VMware management suite (vCD, vROps, vRNI, vRLI) VMware Cloud Director Azure ExpressRoute and Azure VPN Azure networking.
- Azure Disk Pools and Azure NetApp Files