Cloud Solution Architect (Solution Architect I - Cloud Infrastructure Services)

at  UST Global

SKILLS

Azure Iaas, Azure Paas, SQL, Azure

ABOUT UST

UST is a global digital transformation solutions provider. For more than 20 years, UST has worked side by side with the world’s best companies to make a real impact through transformation. Powered by technology, inspired by people and led by purpose, UST partners with their clients from design to operation. With deep domain expertise and a future-proof philosophy, UST embeds innovation and agility into their clients’ organizations. With over 30,000 employees in 30 countries, UST builds for boundless impact—touching billions of lives in the process

ROLE DESCRIPTION

UST is recruiting for Cloud Solution Architect to join our client team in East Midlands, who will be responsible for defining and driving the client’s migration of applications from on premises or existing tenants to the new IT2A tenant. This includes driving assessments of existing application and infrastructure implementations on premises or Azure, reviewing current architecture and applying Azure cloud best practices of PaaS where appropriate and ensuring current application capabilities are supported.
Location: Nottingham
Type: Fixed Term/ Full time employment/ Contract inside IR35
Join: ASAP
Working model: 5 days work from client office location
The role will be responsible for communicating with application, DBA, and service teams to schedule assessment sessions to collect current state, access existing on-premises or Azure deployments and producing accurate current state architecture and deployment artefacts such as security groups, service accounts and user assessments to support a smooth migration from one tenant identity to another. As part of a programme of work the role will be responsible for technical leadership and giving clear migration guidance and technical project status.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Drive migration assessment and discovery

• Align to CCoE / Azure best practices and design patterns.
  • Creation of High-Level Designs including Key Design and Architectural decisions.

  • Provide project specific guidance

• Outline migration approaches and best practice modernisations where appropriate.

• Work alongside the CCoE engineering, DBA and build teams to support the production of low level designs – build sheets.
• Participate in engagement with business partners to provide migration plans and agree appropriate downtime and migration plans.
• Provides direction for infrastructure & application architecture in cloud environments.
• Collaboration with Cloud Engineers to unblock solutions, reviewing IaC assets and identify any gaps in the CCoE engineering patterns to support build and ensure smooth and timely build and migration.
• Participate in project standups and planning sessions to ensure technical integrity and guidance of plans, take ownership of technical deliverables and support the application migrations from design through to migration and warranty.