Established in 1982, Bytes has grown rapidly and now employs over 600 people across 5 locations in the UK and Ireland. Our turnover in Financial Year 2019 was in excess of £520M. We work with SME’s, corporates and public sector organisations to modernise and digitally transform their IT infrastructures. We invest in our employees through on-going support, training and advice to help them achieve their career aspirations, rewarding success both financially and personally. There is opportunity to grow and move internally which can be seen through our long-standing employees who have developed existing and new skills to move into senior positions in the organisation leaving space for new team members to begin their journey. Your Future Starts Here Why Bytes? Over 600 staff (plans to double in size over the next 5 years) Operating from modern, hybrid working environments with offices in Leatherhead, Reading, London or Manchester Winners of an array of industry awards Sunday Times Top 100 Best Places to Work Excellent training and career prospects offered Fantastic office with gym, canteen, open plan, smart casual dress code, regular incentives and company events Supporters of 85 charities with strong commitment to diversity and sustainability POSITION DETAILS: Position Title: Cloud Solutions Architect Reports to (POSITION): Microsoft Services Manager Team: Cloud Implementation Team Department: Technical Solutions PURPOSE OF JOB: To support the Cloud Implementation team in the definition, creation, and delivery of Professional Services for our customers. This will be working on Azure projects for our customers – the main project types are migrations into Azure, the creation of Landing Zones, Azure Virtual Desktop, and customer enablement workshops. 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 Creation of IaC (Infrastructure-as-Code) templates for deploying workloads. WIDER TEAM NETWORK Internal Pre-sales, Sales, Marketing and Support External Clients, Vendors and Partners QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE, & SKILLS: Educational Qualifications: Degree qualified in aligned subject. GCSE A-C in Mathematics & English DESIRABLE ESSENTIAL Professional Qualifications Solutions Architect Expert certification status DESIRABLE Years of Experience 3 years working with production workloads in Azure ESSENTIAL Other Requirements Strong background with Terraform or Bicep ESSENTIAL Experience delivering workshops and/or training to colleagues or customers ESSENTIAL Production experience with M365 (particularly around security with MS-500) DESIRABLE DevOps Expert certification status DESIRABLE Scripting such as PowerShell or Python DESIRABLE CORE Competencies & SKILLS – BASED ON POSITION AND GRADE (IF APPLICABLE) 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 Other details Job Family Employee Job Function Technical Solutions Pay Type Salary