Senior Hybrid Cloud Architect

Job summary

Designs, implements, and supports secure hybrid cloud solutions across Microsoft Azure and on-premises infrastructure, translating customer business and technical requirements into scalable, resilient solutions. The role covers Azure PaaS, VMware, and HPE or Dell enterprise storage, including workload placement, secure connectivity, migration planning, disaster recovery, technical documentation, customer discovery, troubleshooting, and coaching junior team members.

Benefits

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree, college diploma, or certificate in information technology, computer science, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience and industry certifications
• Seven or more years of progressive experience designing, implementing, or supporting enterprise infrastructure and cloud solutions.
• In-depth experience with Microsoft Azure PaaS, including application hosting, managed databases, integration services, storage, secrets management, monitoring, and private connectivity.
• Strong hands-on experience with VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter Server, clustering, high availability, virtual networking, lifecycle management, and migrations.
• Strong experience designing or supporting HPE or Dell enterprise storage, including capacity planning, performance analysis, replication, snapshots, SAN, NAS, Fibre Channel, and iSCSI.
• Experience with Azure networking, Microsoft Entra ID, Azure Policy, role-based access control, Private Link, private endpoints, VPN, and ExpressRoute concepts.
• Working knowledge of Windows Server, Linux, backup, disaster recovery, ransomware resilience, and recovery testing.
• Experience delivering customer-facing professional services engagements with defined scope, timelines, documentation, and acceptance criteria.
• Experience with ITIL-based incident and change management processes.

Responsibilities

• Assess customer infrastructure, application, virtualization, storage, security, and cloud requirements.
• Design and implement hybrid solutions using Microsoft Azure PaaS, VMware, and HPE or Dell storage technologies.
• Advise customers on workload placement, including on-premises retention, Azure migration, PaaS modernization, and phased hybrid approaches.
• Design secure hybrid connectivity, identity, governance, monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Develop migration and implementation plans that include testing, validation, rollback, and business continuity requirements.
• Create technical designs, statements of work, bills of materials, implementation plans, as-built documentation, and operational runbooks.
• Lead customer discovery sessions and support pre-sales activities, solution presentations, effort estimates, and technology recommendations.
• Provide senior-level troubleshooting and technical guidance for complex cloud, virtualization, storage, performance, and integration issues.
• Research emerging technologies and recommend improvements, standards, and best practices.
• Provide coaching and technical support to junior team members.

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Work schedule

Travel

Industry

Relocation