Technical Consultant

Location: Great Stukeley

Technical Consultant Location :
London Our client is looking to hire a Technical Consultant, expected to be experienced in scoping, designing and delivering a variety of Microsoft Azure technologies to a range of clients across multiple sectors. A regular commitment to attend customer sites (in and around London) and their office location based in North Greenwich. The ideal candidate will play a key role in developing their future offerings within the Azure space, including both one-off engagements and managed services – experience in the pre-sales process would also be desirable.

Suitable experience of Microsoft 365, networking and traditional on-premises technologies would be beneficial, alongside a desire to keep pace with AI in relation to Microsoft products and beyond.

Role Overview :
Core Azure platform Designing, deploying and supporting Azure IaaS — VMs, availability sets/zones, scale sets, managed disks, storage accounts Azure networking: VNets, subnets, NSGs, peering, VPN and Express Route, Azure Firewall, Application Gateway, Front Door, private endpoints and DNS Hybrid integration with on-premises services Azure Backup, Site Recovery and broader BCDR design and testing Identity and security Microsoft Entra t design, hybrid identity, Entra Connect, Conditional Access, MFA, PIM and RBAC Microsoft Defender for Cloud and Defender XDR, Sentinel, secure score remediation Key Vault, encryption, certificate and secrets management Azure Policy, management groups, landing zone and governance design (Cloud Adoption Framework / Well-Architected Framework) Migration and modernisation Discovery and assessment using Azure Migrate;

lift-and-shift and re-platforming of server and application workloads and any experience of 3 rd party capability SQL Server migration to Azure SQL / Managed Instance Windows Server and SQL end-of-support upgrade paths, Azure Hybrid Benefit and licensing awareness Azure Virtual Desktop / Windows 365 design and deployment Automation, monitoring and operations Infrastructure as Code — Bicep, ARM or Terraform Power Shell scripting and Azure CLI;
Azure Automation, Update Manager, Logic Apps Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, alerting, dashboards and cost management/Fin Ops Responsibilities Running workshops and discovery sessions with technical and non-technical stakeholders Producing HLDs, LLDs, as-built documentation and handover to internal and external teams Scoping and estimating work, contributing to bids and pre-sales conversations Working to project timelines and mentoring junior engineers Required

Certifications:

The ideal candidate should have the following as a minimum: AZ-104 (Azure Administrator Associate) You should also have or be working towards immediate completion of at least some of the following certifications: AZ-305 (Azure Solutions Architect Expert) AZ-700 (Azure Network Engineer Associate) AZ-140 (Azure Virtual Desktop Specialty) If you don't tick all the boxes but feel you have a strong foundation with at least some of the products and technologies and have the aptitude and drive to grown, learn and develop with their team, then we want to hear from you.

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