MS Cloud Architect (Azure & M365)

Location: Remote working but once a month visits to London or South Coast offices.
TR Ref: TR13580
Salary: £70 – £75K base salary + £12K (car allowance and bonus) = < £87K total package.

About the Company:
A leading provider of IT solutions and managed services to clients ranging from SMEs to global PLCs. They are Microsoft Gold Partners with an internal team of over 250+ IT specialists, experienced in delivering projects from initial concept through to implementation.  

The Role:
This role sits within the technical consultancy team, where you will be playing a key role in driving digital transformation projects, designing, testing, implementing and documenting a range of complete infrastructure projects. You’ll get to work with a close-knit group of pre-sales consultants, helpdesk and project management staff, ensuring the smooth implementation of complete projects.

You:

• At least 5 years of experience in a similar Senior Cloud Consultant or Solutions Architect role
  • • • The ability to work effectively with business and IT stakeholders, both internal and partners.
• Evidence of previous technical design and architectural experience.
• Experience of working to tight deadlines.
  • • • A well-developed communication and presentation skills.
      • A background in Microsoft cloud technologies is essential. With a specialisation
        in Office 365 and Azure migration projects.
• Strong customer relationship skills
• Good time management
• Multitasker with a can-do attitude
• Flexible and tenacious
• The ability to define holistic IT strategies that align with business requirements

Skills and experience needed:

Mandatory:

• Experience working with and designing solutions across a range of technologies and specialisms.
• Experience of architecting solutions within public cloud providers such as Azure
• Awareness and understanding of serverless computing, IaaS, SaaS and PaaS
• Assuring and where applicable producing Low Level Designs – end to end architecture
  solutions within the Cloud arena.
• Evangelist in Microsoft Cloud solutions, keeping up with all the latest trends and emerging technologies.
• Excellent knowledge of Identity management systems (Azure AD, ADFS, MFA, SAML)
• Excellent knowledge of Office 365 (Planning and migrations)
  • • • Identity and Access management
      • Device and Application Management
      • Information Protection
      • Compliance management
      • Enterprise Mobility + Security
      • Modern Workplace
• Excellent Azure planning and migration projects
  • • • Azure Virtual Desktop implementation
      • Azure Networking
      • Azure Active Directory Domain Services
      • Azure Landing zones
• Experience writing and executing platform test plan

Desirable:

• Microsoft Azure scripting (JSON/BICEP/PowerShell)
• Microsoft Viva Platform
• Microsoft Powerplatform
• Good understanding of Office 365 E5 products
• A good understanding of SAN environments
• SUSE Linux Experience
• Experience in Citrix technologies
• Experience in VMWare products
• Knowledge of Microsoft Zero-trust security models and deployment.
• Knowledge cloud and Microsoft adoption framework
• Working towards a Compliance standard (ISO, Cyber Essentials, PCI-DSS)
• Microsoft Azure certifications (AZ-104, 140, 303 and 305)
• Microsoft 365 certifications (MS-500, MS-700)

Qualifications and Certifications Required:

• Minimum GCSE or equivalent Maths and English – grade C or above.
• Microsoft Role-based certifications: Azure, Identity or Mobility
• Full clean UK driving license.

Benefits:
Car allowance and bonus (paid in full every quarter for the last 10+ yrs) worth an additional £12K/yr
+ Healthcare, Pension, Discount scheme etc.