Azure VMware Solution Architect

Job Title: AVS Solution Architect

Location: London, UK

Job Type: Contract

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 onpremises 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 AzureAVS 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 selfhelp solutions and create training

Qualifications

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 VMwares Core Cloud Infrastructure Required
• Azure VMware Solution Required
• VMware vSphere 60 and above Required
• VMware NSXT network virtualization technologies NSX edge services DNS DHCP Gateway Firewall Distributed Firewall NSX implementation NSX migration from vlan or NSXv Required
• VMware vSAN Required
• VMware HCX Advanced Enterprise Preferred
• VMware Site Recovery Manager vSphere Replication Preferred
• VMware management suite vCD vROps vRNI vRLI Preferred
• VMware Cloud Director
• Experience with onpremisestoCloud or cloudtocloud migrations with VMware HCX
• Experience with relevant Azure technologies like Required Azure ExpressRoute and Azure VPN
• Required Azure Virtual WAN and Azure Route Server
• Required Azure networking Preferred
• Azure Disk Pools and Azure NetApp Files Preferred
• Azure Monitoring and Security technologies Monitor Arc Security Center Preferred
• 3rd party network virtual appliances firewalls loadbalancers routers for Azure and VMware environments
• Experience and good understanding of any leading cloud management systems and solutions
• Strong core platform architecture concepts including hardware platform hypervisor Networking security data protection high availability monitoring ing patching etc
• Familiarity with security compliance standards across a variety of enterprise IT landscapes
• Experience with Azure Hosting or Infrastructure background and public cloud highly desired
• A good understanding of datacenter networking fabric topologies and common architectures deployed both Layer 2 and Layer 3 based is highly desired
• Strong presentation influencing and communication skills

Education Qualifications

• BS or postgraduate degree in Computer Science or technology focused discipline or equivalent experience
• VCDXDCVCMA certification is preferred but not required
• CCDP CCNP VCPNV certification is preferred but not required

Desired Qualifications

• Experience working with enterprise customers on Azure specific solutions and deployment
• Ability to communicate effectively with corporate customers possess an understanding of the onboarding process and demonstrate a vision for the future
• Excellent customer service skills good oral and written communication skills proven ability to handle difficult and sensitive situations involving the most critical and politically charged customer situations to lead projects and to motivate others

Skills

Mandatory Skills : 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