POSITION DETAILS: Position Title: Azure Implementation Consultant (6 month FTC) Reports to (POSITION): Service Lead – Microsoft Azure Team: Microsoft Services Team Department: Technical Solutions Grade (If Applicable): PURPOSE OF JOB: (OVERALL DESCRIPTION OF THE POST WITHIN THE TEAM AND ORGANISATION) To support the Cloud Implementation team in the delivery of Professional Services for our customers. Initially this will be working on migrations into Azure, the creation of Landing Zones, and Azure Virtual Desktop. However, you will also be involved with application modernization projects to move customers away from virtual machines and onto platform native tooling. The successful candidate must have solid experience in all of the above areas to be considered. KEY RESPONSIBILITIES: Responsible for the delivery of projects from pre-sales scoping to project planning and implementation Engage with the Service Delivery team to collaborate on future services that we can deliver to customers Designing and documenting customer solutions INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITIES: Delivery of migrations into Azure using various migration methods and tooling Azure Virtual Desktop migrations and/or customer workshops Design and implementation of Azure Landing Zones Creation of IaC (Infrastructure-as-Code) templates for deploying workloads. Delivery of application modernisation projects (Azure PaaS and containerisation) Delivery of Azure VMware Solution deployments WIDER TEAM NETWORK (WHICH TEAMS WILL THE POSITION WORK WITH DIRECTLY AND WHO WILL THEY RELATE TO EXTERNALLY) Internal Pre-sales, Sales, Marketing and Support External Clients, Vendors and Partners QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE, & SKILLS: (DELETE AS REQUIRED IF ESSENTIAL OR DESIRABLE, REMOVE UNNECESSARY REQUIRENENTs) Educational Qualifications: ESSENTIAL OR DESIRABLE Professional Qualifications Solutions Architect Expert certification status DESIRABLE Azure Administrator (AZ-104) certification DESIRABLE Years of Experience 3 years working with production workloads in Azure ESSENTIAL Other Requirements Experience delivering workshops and/or training to colleagues or customers ESSENTIAL Production experience with M365 (particularly around security with MS-500) DESIRABLE DevOps Expert certification status DESIRABLE Scripting such as PowerShell or Python DESIRABLE CORE Competencies & SKILLS – BASED ON POSITION AND GRADE (IF APPLICABLE) (INCLUDE CORE COMPETENCIES & SKILLS REQUIRED FOR THIS POSITION BASED ON THE GRADE) Excellent knowledge of Azure service offerings and products Practical knowledge of Windows Server and SQL Server Good knowledge of networking including TCP/IP, OSI, and VPNs Experience with CI/CD tools such as Azure DevOps, Jenkins etc Experience of Project Management tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps Boards etc Good experience with ARM, Terraform, or Bicep for writing IaC Good working knowledge of Azure Migration tools such as Azure Migrate Assessment, Data Migration Assessment (DMA), SQL Server Migration Assistant (SSMA), Azure Migrate Server Migration, Database Migration Service, Storage Migration Service Experience with migrating and scaling Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) and FSLogix Delivery of Azure VMware Solutions deployments MEASURES & GOALS (HOW WILL THE SUCCESS OF THE PERSON IN THIS POSITION BE MEASURED – WHAT ARE THE EXPECTED OUTPUTS) OBJECTIVE MEASURE FREQUENCY