Technical Infrastructure Architect - £700 - £750 Per Day – VMware to Hyper V Migration – Financial Services
Overview:
A global organisation is looking to engage an experienced Virtualization Architect to support a major VMware to Microsoft Hyper-V migration programme.
The successful candidate will have proven experience architecting and delivering VMware-to-Hyper-V migrations and will work closely with the internal infrastructure team to assess the existing VMware estate, define the target Hyper-V architecture and develop a pragmatic migration strategy.
Role & Responsibilities:
- Assess the existing VMware estate and infrastructure architecture
- Design the target Microsoft Hyper-V architecture
- Develop the VMware-to-Hyper-V migration strategy and roadmap
- Review existing compute, storage and networking infrastructure
- Assess and recommend appropriate migration tooling and methodologies
- Work with the internal infrastructure team to define migration waves and implementation plans
- Identify technical dependencies, risks and potential migration challenges
- Support high-level design and architecture documentation
- Support Design Review Board approval
- Ensure the internal team is capable of independently managing and operating the Hyper-V environment following the engagement
- Provide ongoing fractional architectural support as required
Essential Skills & Experience:
- Proven experience as a Virtualization Architect / Infrastructure Architect
- Strong enterprise VMware experience
- Strong Microsoft Hyper-V experience
- Proven experience delivering VMware-to-Hyper-V migrations
- Strong understanding of Windows Server and Microsoft infrastructure
- Experience across compute, storage and networking environments
- Enterprise SAN / storage experience
- Experience with virtualization migration tooling and methodologies
- Strong architecture and technical design experience
- Experience developing migration strategies and phased migration plans
- Strong technical documentation skills
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
- Comfortable working collaboratively with internal infrastructure and engineering teams
Package:
- £700 - £750 Per Day
- Outside IR35
- Fractional / deliverables-based consultancy engagement
- Occasional travel to London
Technical Infrastructure Architect - £700 - £750 Per Day – VMware to Hyper V Migration – Financial Services