Azure Cloud Transformation Architect - Enterprise Scale

DGH Recruitment Limited; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

DGH Recruitment Limited in London is seeking an Azure Infrastructure Architect (Technical - engineering and architecture) to drive cloud transformation from on premise infrastructure to Azure. The role operates within a globally distributed team and requires strong Microsoft Azure and on-premise cloud experience.

The position focuses on creating modular cloud-based systems, maintaining infrastructure best practices, and ensuring performance, uptime and security across both cloud and data centre

Qualifications

• Strong experience in on premise to cloud transformation.
• Experience automating into public cloud providers.
• Experience with Microsoft Azure.
• Experience with Azure Migrate.
• Experience in private cloud datacentre technology including VMware, Cisco UCS, Dell EMC.
• Experience in private cloud networking including Cisco ACI, F5 load balancing, Palo Alto firewall, SDWAN.
• Certifications such as AZ-104 or AZ-305 advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for assessing current technologies and preparing for cloud transformation, working with the Platform Engineering team
• Develops, maintains and documents infrastructure best practices, guidelines, and guardrails for on-premise and cloud technologies
• Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale, maintaining high standards for code quality and thoughtful design
• Identifies, analyses, and resolves legacy and cloud infrastructure vulnerabilities and deployment issues
• Develops and deploys modular cloud-based systems
• Working with the Platform Engineering team, provide automation enhancements to help keep the environment consistent
• Works with vendor partners to test and benchmark new infrastructure solutions. Provides findings to Infrastructure Architects team and appropriate levels of management
• Works with application and Infrastructure teams, to ensure both new and existing systems follow BC/DR guidelines, have documented plans, and are tested and reviewed on an agreed basis
• Acts as an escalation point for the IT Operations team

Skills

Azure

Azure Migrate

VMware

Cisco UCS

Dell EMC

Cisco ACI

F5

Palo Alto

SDWAN

PowerShell

Terraform

Tools

Terraform

PowerShell

Job description

DGH Recruitment Limited in London is seeking an Azure Infrastructure Architect (Technical - engineering and architecture) to drive cloud transformation from on premise infrastructure to Azure. The role operates within a globally distributed team and requires strong Microsoft Azure and on-premise cloud experience.

The position focuses on creating modular cloud-based systems, maintaining infrastructure best practices, and ensuring performance, uptime and security across both cloud and data centre