AVS (Azure VMWare Solution) Architect

RED Global; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company in cloud solutions is seeking an AVS Architect for a 12-month hybrid contract in London. The successful candidate will leverage over a decade of IT experience to architect and deploy complex migrations to Azure VMware Solution, guiding enterprise customers in modernizing their infrastructure.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of IT experience.
• Minimum 3 years on Azure VMware Solution.
• 5+ years on VMware vSphere, Azure cloud services.

Responsibilities

• Plan and guide complex infrastructure deployments for enterprise customers.
• Define requirements and processes for migrations to Azure VMware Solution.
• Engagement with customers on infrastructure and security.

Skills

Cloud migration

VMware expertise

Infrastructure design

Team collaboration

Azure services

Networking technologies

Job description

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