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tekHouse, a leading company in IT consulting for the telecommunications industry, is seeking a Remote VMware Architect - Azure Cloud Urgent for immediate hire. The successful candidate will have a proven track record in designing and deploying advanced virtualized infrastructures leveraging the latest VMware and Azure cloud technologies. You will be responsible for analyzing customer requirements, designing, and implementing end-to-end solutions, ensuring excellent performance, security, and reliability. As a remote worker, you will work closely with the tekHouse team to deliver high-quality services that exceed our clients' expectations. tekHouse's IT consulting practice helps CIOs and IT leaders design and implement advanced solutions in IT governance, security, data management, applications, and compliance.
Job Description:
Key Technology requirements: 10 YR EXPERIENCE
- Azure Cloud VMware Standard Private Cloud solutioning, design and deployment (VCP level resource)
- Cloud Infrastructure: Virtual Machines, Azure Database, and storage technologies (Storage Accounts, SQL Server, CosmosDB), Virtual Networks, Azure Site Recovery, Traffic Manager, Azure Automation, ARM Templates, Azure Load balancer, API Gateway and Azure AD.
- Cloud Management: Policy, RBAC roles, Cost Management, Monitor and Alerting, Site Recovery, Disaster Recovery
- On-premises infrastructure: Active Directory, DNS, VMWare, Hyper-V, firewalls, routing
- Identity and user management solutions provided by Azure or 3rd party.
- Familiar with Azure DevOps, Visual Studio Team Server (VSTS), Jenkins, Github, Octopus Deploy.
- Experience with Automation scripting including PowerShell and other configuration as code tools.
- Deployment automation languages and tools such as JSON Template, Terraform, Ansible
- Experience with Azure and 3rd party monitoring tools and firewall devices
- Experience with Windows and Linux-based operating system configuration, automation, and management
- Experience with Cloud Security and (SIEM) Security Incident and Event Management Monitoring integration
Technology Plus:
(Ideal candidate similar to below level - but “not required”):
- Strong Azure design and hands-on experience solutioning with customers
- Any Microsoft Azure VMware Solution training/certification
- Microsoft Certified - Azure Solutions Architect Expert Exam AZ-305
- Microsoft Certified - Microsoft Azure Virtual Desktop AZ-140
- Microsoft Azure Certified – Exam AZ-300: Microsoft Azure Architect Technologies
- Microsoft Azure Certified – Exam AZ-301: Microsoft Azure Architect Design
- Microsoft Azure Certified – Exam SC-200: Microsoft Security Operations Analyst
- Hands-on Experience with Terraform and/or Bicep but ARM scripting a must
- Knowledge and/or experience of Microsoft Azure Synapse, Azure Data Factory and Azure Data Lakes
- Knowledge of Microsoft Partner Funding programs (ECIF, AMPP, PIE, etc…)
Experience with AWS and GCP (Nice to Have)
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