Senior Hybrid Cloud Architect

Bulletproof; Halifax; Hybrid; CAD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employer-paid medical/dental/vision

RRSP matching

Comprehensive travel medical coverage

Certification reimbursement

Mental Health & Family Assistance

Volunteer time

Massage therapy coverage

Goodlife Fitness corporate rate

Performance bonus

Service award bonus

Job summary

Bulletproof in Halifax region seeks a Senior Hybrid Cloud Architect to design, implement, and support secure hybrid cloud solutions across Microsoft Azure and on‑premises infrastructure. The role emphasizes Azure PaaS, VMware expertise, and storage technologies, with travel for customer engagements.

The ideal candidate will translate business needs into scalable, resilient designs, and will lead customer discovery, pre‑sales activities, and senior-level troubleshooting while coaching junior

Qualifications

• Seven+ years designing, implementing, or supporting enterprise infrastructure and cloud solutions.
• In-depth Azure PaaS experience including hosting, databases, storage, monitoring, and private connectivity.
• Strong VMware expertise (vSphere/ESXi/vCenter, clustering, HA, migrations).
• Experience with enterprise storage (HPE/Dell), capacity planning, performance analysis, replication, SAN/NAS.
• Experience with Azure networking, Entra ID, Azure Policy, RBAC, Private Link, VPN, ExpressRoute.
• Windows Server and Linux knowledge, backup, DR, ransomware resilience, recovery testing.
• ITIL-based incident and change management; customer-facing services delivery.

Responsibilities

• Assess customer infrastructure and cloud requirements and design hybrid solutions.
• Lead implementation using Azure PaaS, VMware, and storage technologies.
• Advise on workload placement, on-premises retention, and phased hybrid transitions.
• Design secure hybrid connectivity, identity, governance, monitoring, and DR solutions.
• Develop migration plans with testing, rollback, and business continuity.
• Create technical designs, statements of work, BOMs, and runbooks.
• Lead discovery sessions, pre-sales support, and technology recommendations.
• Provide senior troubleshooting for complex cloud, virtualization, storage, and integration issues.
• Research emerging technologies and recommend best practices.
• Coach and mentor junior team members.

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher

Tools

VMware vSphere

Dell storage

HPE storage

Azure DevOps

Terraform

ExpressRoute

Job description

Title: Senior Hybrid Cloud Architect

Location: Halifax, NS or Fredericton, NB or Moncton, NS

Hybrid: 4 days onsite

Travel Expectations: Approx. 10%-15%, when necessary to customer offices.

Job Summary

The Hybrid Cloud Architect is responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting secure hybrid cloud solutions across Microsoft Azure and on-premises infrastructure. This customer-facing role requires in-depth knowledge of Azure Platform as a Service, VMware, and HPE or Dell enterprise storage, along with the ability to translate business and technical requirements into scalable, resilient, and supportable solutions.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Assess customer infrastructure, application, virtualization, storage, security, and cloud requirements.
• Design and implement hybrid solutions using Microsoft Azure PaaS, VMware, and HPE or Dell storage technologies.
• Advise customers on workload placement, including on-premises retention, Azure migration, PaaS modernization, and phased hybrid approaches.
• Design secure hybrid connectivity, identity, governance, monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Develop migration and implementation plans that include testing, validation, rollback, and business continuity requirements.
• Create technical designs, statements of work, bills of materials, implementation plans, as-built documentation, and operational runbooks.
• Lead customer discovery sessions and support pre-sales activities, solution presentations, effort estimates, and technology recommendations.
• Provide senior-level troubleshooting and technical guidance for complex cloud, virtualization, storage, performance, and integration issues.
• Research emerging technologies and recommend improvements, standards, and best practices.
• Provide coaching and technical support to junior team members.

Required Skills/Experience

• Bachelor’s degree, college diploma, or certificate in information technology, computer science, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience and industry certifications
• Seven or more years of progressive experience designing, implementing, or supporting enterprise infrastructure and cloud solutions.
• In-depth experience with Microsoft Azure PaaS, including application hosting, managed databases, integration services, storage, secrets management, monitoring, and private connectivity.
• Strong hands-on experience with VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter Server, clustering, high availability, virtual networking, lifecycle management, and migrations.
• Strong experience designing or supporting HPE or Dell enterprise storage, including capacity planning, performance analysis, replication, snapshots, SAN, NAS, Fibre Channel, and iSCSI.
• Experience with Azure networking, Microsoft Entra ID, Azure Policy, role-based access control, Private Link, private endpoints, VPN, and ExpressRoute concepts.
• Working knowledge of Windows Server, Linux, backup, disaster recovery, ransomware resilience, and recovery testing.
• Experience delivering customer-facing professional services engagements with defined scope, timelines, documentation, and acceptance criteria.
• Experience with ITIL-based incident and change management processes.

Preferred Certifications

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, AZ-305.
• Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate, AZ-104.
• VMware Certified Professional, Data Center Virtualization.
• HPE or Dell enterprise storage certification.
• Terraform, Azure DevOps, or related infrastructure automation certification.

Perks & Benefits - What’s in it for you?

• 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage
• Company-matched RRSP program
• Comprehensive travel medical coverage
• Professional certification reimbursement for relevant career development
• Mental Health Counselling and Family Assistance Program
• Community involvement and volunteer opportunities
• Give back while getting paid with dedicated volunteer time
• Competitive Extended health care benefits ($1500 per year massage therapy coverage)
• Goodlife Fitness corporate rate – It’s 25% off memberships
• Recognition and rewards, including score-card performance bonus, and service award bonus

About Bulletproof

At Bulletproof, we help organizations stay secure, compliant, and future-ready through Microsoft-powered technology solutions and managed services. For more than 20 years, we've partnered with public sector organizations, regulated industries, and commercial businesses across North America to reduce risk, modernize operations, and drive measurable outcomes. As a trusted Microsoft solutions partner, we combine deep expertise in cybersecurity, cloud, compliance, and managed services with a people-first culture that values growth, innovation, and meaningful impact.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Bulletproof is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status. Bulletproof is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.