Azure Implementation Consultant

Reports to (POSITION): 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:

Professional Qualifications

• Solutions Architect Expert certification status
• DevOps Expert certification status

Years of Experience

• 3+ years working with production workloads in Azure

Other Requirements

• Experience delivering workshops and/or training to colleagues or customers
• Production experience with M365 (particularly around security with MS 500)
• Scripting such as PowerShell or Python

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)