Key Responsibilities:
* Data Centre Migration Design & Implementation: Lead the end-to-end design, planning, and hands-on implementation of the HP to Cisco migration within a live data centre environment, ensuring minimal disruption and maximum uptime.
* High Availability Planning: Develop and implement robust high availability and failover strategies to maintain business continuity during the migration.
* Equipment Decommissioning: Execute the phased decommissioning of legacy HP equipment post-migration, ensuring a seamless transition and optimised resource usage.
* Change Management: Implement and adhere to change management protocols, aligning with best practices for risk assessment, planning, and execution.
* Stakeholder Communication: Serve as the primary point of contact for project-related updates, providing regular status reports to stakeholders and managing expectations for both technical and non-technical teams.
* Documentation & Knowledge Transfer: Produce detailed project documentation and oversee knowledge transfer sessions to internal teams, ensuring long-term manageability and sustainability.
* Suitable experience in infrastructure or Hyper-V to VMWare migration is beneficial.
The successful Network Architect will work remotely and travel to site when the project is live. There will be an onsite requirement in Slough.
This is a 6-month contract outside of IR35.