Azure DRBC and AVS - SC Cleared

Location: Remote

Pay rate: £66ph Inside IR35

Duration: 03/04/2023 to 29/09/2023

Position: Azure DRBC and AVS - SC Cleared

• Work with the Customer to design a second Azure region to deliver the initial capability for DR and BC requirements for the ICCM application. Through the following activities:
• Help with the discovery and review of the Customer's Legacy RPO/RTO and other resilience needs for the service. Participate in the production of a pack for the Customer SDR4 design gate.
• Attend the SDR4 meeting to support the design review.
• Participate in the further development of the SDR4 conceptual design to the production of a pack for the customer SDR8 gate (production readiness governance)
• Attend the SDR8 meeting to support the production readiness review

Work with the Customer to design an Azure AVS service capable of hosting Legacy (VMware virtualised) applications to run on/through Tier 1 cloud, assisting with the following activities:

Help with the discovery and review of the Customer's Legacy VMware service.

Skills Needed:

• Architecture, Detail Design and Deployment knowledge of the following:
• Azure Infrastructure: Creating, deploying and managing virtual machines, networks, storage, and other infrastructure components within Azure - Azure paired regions, local and remote HA, BC/DR, Azure site recovery.
• Automation and Scripting: Familiarity with automation tools and Scripting languages such as PowerShell, Python, and Terraform. Azure Security: Implementing and managing security features and controls within Azure to protect data and resources - including Microsoft defender for cloud, network security groups, defence in depth/zero trust.
• Azure Data Services: Storing, managing, and using Azure's various data services such as Azure SQL and storage accounts.

Knowledge of Architecting/designing AVS on Azure including the following:

• Azure Infrastructure: as above
• VMware Technologies: Strong understanding of VMware virtualization technologies such as vSphere, vSAN, NSX-T, and vRealize Suite.
• Networking: Knowledge of networking concepts and how to configure and manage network connectivity between on-premises and Azure infrastructure.
• Azure Infrastructure: as above
• Monitoring and Troubleshooting: Ability to monitor and troubleshoot AVS environment using various tools such as Azure Monitor, vRealize Operations, and vRealize Log Insight.
• Migration and Deployment: Understanding of migration methodologies and experience in deploying and managing VMware workloads on Azure infrastructure.
• AVS workload scalability.
• AVS high availability, redundancy and failover.

If you feel you have the skills and experience needed for this role; please do apply now.