Job Purpose and primary objectives:
•Should own the Architecture responsibility (end to end), Designing complex On premises and cloud solution.
•Overall governance of Azure Infrastructure and Platform.
•Design and Architecture knowledge for Azure Landing zone.
•Closely working on IAAS and Platform projects aligned with different support teams, Technical Architect, Security Team, Service Manager through a DevOps board.
•Management of Azure Landing Zone subscription hosting Infrastructure components.
•Migration of Application Workload from Legacy Management group and Subscriptions to Azure Landing Zone management group and subscriptions.
•Deliver Server using CIS hardened image for 2019/2022, App Services, SQL Managed Instance, SQL Database Server. Ensure high availability of services.
•Deliver secure way of network routing using Application Gateway, Azure Firewall, Network Security Group.
•Design and Configuration of point-to-site and site-to-site for high secure VPN connectivity from end user’s device and Sizewell C various offices and sites.
•Configuration of Data Lake storage, ensuring security hardening. Compliance of backup and restoration.
•Integration of IAAS, PAAS and SAAS application with Microsoft Entra ID (AAD) for secure access through SAML SSO.
•Maintain the lifecycle of Enterprise Application and App registration certificate.
•Closely working With Security Architect and Team to adhere zero-trust architecture by securing server policy, group policy, defender etc
•Tenant security – DDOS, Azure Firewall policy creation and maintain of Application, Network rule along with IDPS to ensure all the inbound/outbound traffic managed via AZFW.
•Password management, disk encryption management through Azure Key Vault limiting access.
•Working with Vodafone network team and Site IT to ensure smooth go-live of new Sizewell C sites and ensure internet and print functionality.
•Closely working with Lead Architect, Technical Architect to review the design and implement resources based on the approved design.
•Third party vendor Management mostly Microsoft Azure Support. Working with TAM and dedicated Solution Architect to ensure new features and updates are discussed and implemented based on requirement.
•Working with many different support organizations carrying out Auditing, Costing, Governance etc
•DevOps and IAC ( Terraform )
Key responsibilities:
•A good understanding and exposure to Microsoft enterprise services frameworks and practices
•The role must have strong on premises and Cloud Integrations skill. Good understanding of competitive technologies to properly assess feasibility to integrate with customer solutions and understanding of Agile life-cycle
•Should be Core On premises, Azure Solution Architect and have high experience in solution designing.
•Should have excellent communication skills, the role is to work along with customer, understand their business/technical requirement and design Domain Merger, Identity management, solutions which is best suited for the environment
•Should be well versed in creating issue documentation and technical FAQs
•Experience in architecting significant infrastructure and must have worked as Azure Technical Architect
•Good overall understanding of IT infrastructure design, IT operations and Experience in developing High Level and Low-Level Designs to meet Customer requirements
•Leading technical workshops, decision meetings, collaborative sessions, and deliver executive briefings related to the project.
•Good Knowledge on Windows 2016, Windows 2019 Server Operating Systems
•Provide guidance based on best practices through projects lifecycle and/or plan, manage migrations and implementations of cloud architecture, including hands-on deep dive when required.
•Leading the teams during Major Incidents and provide recommendations on fastest path to the major incident recovery or supporting technical delivery teams with root cause analysis for Major Incidents
•Experience of working on both SAFE / AGILE project delivery
Key Skills/Knowledge/Experience Required:
•MS Azure solution architect certified
•Strong knowledge on designing azure infrastructure and platform.
•Designing expertise on Azure landing zone using DevOps, Github and Terraform.
•Strong Expertise on Azure and Cloud network
•Facilitate and lead client configuration planning meetings and articulate pros & cons of design/architecture decision across a wide spectrum of factors
•Experience with PowerShell
•Strong working experience on Windows Servers 2019, 2022.
•Good to have hands on working experience upgrading Windows server operating system.
•Certification and Experienced Architecture