Cloud and Infrastructure Architect

Role: Cloud & Infrastructure Architect, Portsmouth (Penner Road) (Remote) , 6 months FTC, Pays up to £600 - £750 per day(Engagement via umbrella company)

Job Role / Description

Company requires an Infrastructure Architect for an initial 6-month engagement to deliver design specifications for multiple internal projects across the group. This will include Public Cloud and on-premises greenfield designs, design updates, and supporting delivery.

Core skills must include

• Minimum of five years/relevant or equivalent of hands-on infrastructure architecture/design and implementation experience
• Strong Windows Server 2008/R2, 2012/R2, 2016, 2019 server background on both physical and virtual (VMware/Hyper V) infrastructure, Active Directory / Group Policy
• Experience with networking technologies, firewalls, switches, routers / VLan's / DNS / DHCPFirewalls (Checkpoint an advantage), Load Balancing (Citrix NetScaler an advantage), VPN / VPN profiles, MS-Azure (General), Azure AD Proxy, Azure IaaS / PaaS components, Azure Storage /Networking, Hyper-V (2016 / 2019), Office 365 / Conditional Access / Azure Active Directory / Azure MFA
• Ability to take a flexible approach to design with limited defined as is architecture and NFR's
• Ability to ensure architecture designs follow internal standards
• Exposure to multiple, diverse technologies and processing environments
• Excellent interpersonal skills in areas such as teamwork, facilitation and negotiation
• Excellent communications skills, including the ability to present information
• Excellent analytical and technical skills
• Excellent understanding of Agile delivery frameworks