Infrastructure Architect - Azure

Candidate's required/essential experience
* Cloud awareness regarding integration on and off premise platforms
* Awareness of working on large scales programmes
* Utility experience preferred
* Stakeholder experience
* Minimum of five years/relevant or equivalent of hands-on design and implementation experience
* A wide-ranging infrastructure exposure, including as many of the following as possible:
i. Provision of infrastructure for business applications
ii. Digital solutions
iii. Cloud delivery - Microsoft Azure infrastructure and costing
iv. Cloud delivery - AWS infrastructure and costing
v. Application Delivery - Citrix XenApp, MS App-V ,
vi. Network design
vii. Middleware
i. Servers and storage
ii. Virtualisation - Hyper-V and VMware
iii. Provision of infrastructure for databases - SQL and Oracle
iv. Operations
* Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments
* Project solution architecture experience
* Excellent interpersonal skills in areas such as teamwork, facilitation and negotiation
* Excellent analytical and technical skills

With a focus on the below:
* Experience with Azure infrastructure such as Account structures e.g. (subscription, tenant), Azure Active Directory, Azure Active Directory Domain Services, Service Principles, RBAC, IAM.
* Azure Arm Template scripting and management through Azure DevOps
* Express route configuration and management
* Ability to take a flexible approach to design with limited defined as is architecture and NFR's
* Ability to ensure architecture designs follow internal standards
* Ability to understand complex requirements for application migration to the cloud utilising cloud native technologies.
* Azure Arm Template scripting and management through Azure DevOps
* Express route configuration and management
* Strong Windows server background on both physical and virtual (VMware) infrastructure
* Experienced server migration elements to both on-premise and off-premise
* Hyper-V experience and design
* Migration of applications and services into cloud environment (Azure or vender SaaS platforms)
* Ability to understand complex requirements for application migration to the cloud utilising cloud native technologies