Azure Solutions Architect
Posted 7 days ago by N Consulting Global
Negotiable
Undetermined
Hybrid
London Area, United Kingdom
Summary: The Azure Solutions Architect role focuses on designing and implementing Azure-centric solutions with an emphasis on migration and archival strategies. The position requires rapid development of high-level designs, utilizing tools like Sharegate for data migration, and ensuring robust security measures. The architect will also be responsible for automating infrastructure provisioning and providing stakeholder reporting on costs and timelines. This contract role is based in London and operates in a hybrid work mode.
Key Responsibilities:
- Rapidly develop an Azure-centric high-level design (HLD) prioritizing security and robustness.
- Design a solution incorporating Azure Files and Azure Backup for disaster recovery.
- Utilize Sharegate for migrating 7 TB of data from SharePoint 2019 to Azure.
- Author Terraform scripts for Azure environment provisioning, including networking and identity controls.
- Provide monthly cost implications and forecasts for proposed Azure resources.
Key Skills:
- Proven architectural mindset with experience in technical design.
- Deep hands-on experience with Sharegate for large-scale SharePoint migrations.
- Expertise in Azure networking, security, and data encryption.
- Experience managing high-volume data migrations under tight deadlines.
- Proficiency in Terraform for infrastructure automation.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: London
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: undetermined
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Roles: Azure Solutions Architect / Senior Technical Consultant (Migration & Archival Focus)
Location: London, UK
Contract Role
Work Mode: Hybrid
Key Responsibilities
- Urgent High-Level Design (HLD): Rapidly develop an Azure-centric HLD that prioritizes security and robustness to gain immediate approval from technical architects and IRR.
- Design a solution that incorporates Azure Files and Azure Backup, ensuring that while primary storage is locally redundant, backups are stored in a different region (e.g., outside UK South) for disaster recovery.
- Address long-term data retention needs (up to 22 years) and the potential for a separate Azure subscription for the business unit.
- Migration Strategy & Tooling (Sharegate): Utilize Sharegate to facilitate the migration of 7 TB of data from SharePoint 2019 to Azure.
- Ensure the migration preserves metadata, utilizing Sharegate’s ability to export metadata into readable formats like CSV for long-term archival accessibility.
- Provide an end-to-end testing framework to validate data integrity post-migration.
- Automated Infrastructure Provisioning: Author Terraform scripts to provision the necessary Azure environment, including networking (private endpoints/tunnels) and identity controls (Entra ID).
- Deliver validated non-production and test environments to allow for immediate migration dry-runs.
- Stakeholder & Financial Reporting: Provide clear monthly cost implications and forecasts for the proposed Azure resources.
- Present milestones and technical designs to the client, ensuring they understand the timeline required to hit the mid-July deadline.
Required Skills and Qualifications
Location: Must be based in the UK.
- Architectural Excellence: A proven "architect mindset" with experience creating technical designs that meet stringent enterprise quality standards.
- Sharegate Expertise: Deep hands-on experience using Sharegate for large-scale SharePoint migrations, specifically for extracting data and metadata into file-based archival systems.
- Azure Networking & Security: Expertise in Private Endpoints, secure tunnels, and data encryption at rest and in transit.
- High-Volume Migration: Experience managing large-scale data moves (multiple terabytes) under tight time constraints.
- IaC Skills: Proficiency in Terraform for Azure infrastructure automation.
Critical Success Factors
- Speed of Delivery: The ability to move from requirement gathering to a proposed solution within days to meet the mid-July decommissioning of SharePoint 2019.
- Security Approval: Designing a solution that is "IRR-ready" to bypass the need for unsecure interim platforms.