Azure Consultant

About the job

Established in 1982, Bytes has grown rapidly and now employs over 800+ people across 6 locations in the UK and Ireland. Our turnover in Financial Year 2024 was in excess of £2bn. 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 800 staff (plans to double in size over the next 5 years)
• Operating from modern, hybrid working environments with offices in Leatherhead, Reading, London, Manchester, Port Solent and Dublin.
• 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

PURPOSE OF JOB:

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 modernisation 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

QUALIFICATIONS, EXPERIENCE, & SKILLS:

Professional Qualifications

• Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification status - Desirable
• Azure Administrator (AZ-104) certification - Desirable

Years of Experience

• 3+ years working with production workloads in Azure - Essential

Other Requirements

• Experience delivering workshops and/or training to colleagues or customers - Essential
• Production experience with M365 (particularly around security with MS-500) - Desirable
• Azure DevOps Expert certification status - Desirable
• Scripting such as PowerShell or Python - Desirable

CORE Competencies & SKILLS

• 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