Azure VMware Solution Architect

ZipRecruiter; London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company seeks an AVS Solution Architect to lead complex infrastructure migrations to Azure VMware Solution. The candidate should possess extensive experience in VMware technologies and cloud services, alongside strong skills in architecture and communication, providing strategic guidance for major deployments.

Qualifications

• 12 years of IT experience with 3 years on Azure VMware Solution.
• 5 years on VMware vSphere Azure cloud services deployments.
• Experience with enterprise customers on Azure solutions.

Responsibilities

• Guide complex infrastructure deployments for customers moving to Azure VMware Solution.
• Define requirements with infrastructure and security stakeholders.
• Propose designs for AzureAVS and VMware product implementations.

Skills

Azure VMware Solution

VMware vSphere

VMware NSXT

Cloud migrations

Datacentre architecture

Communication skills

Education

BS or postgraduate degree in Computer Science

VCDXDCVCMA certification

CCDP CCNP VCPNV certification

Job description

Job Description

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
• VMware Site Recovery Manager vSphere Replication
• VMware management suite vCD vROps vRNI vRLI
• 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
• Azure Disk Pools and Azure NetApp Files
• Azure Monitoring and Security technologies Monitor Arc Security Center
• 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 but not required
• CCDP CCNP VCPNV certification is 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