Title: Senior Hybrid Cloud Architect
Location: Halifax, NS or Fredericton, NB or Moncton, NS
Hybrid: 4 days onsite
Travel Expectations: Approx. 10%-15%, when necessary to customer offices.
Job Summary:
The Hybrid Cloud Architect is responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting secure hybrid cloud solutions across Microsoft Azure and on-premises infrastructure. This customer-facing role requires in-depth knowledge of Azure Platform as a Service, VMware, and HPE or Dell enterprise storage, along with the ability to translate business and technical requirements into scalable, resilient, and supportable solutions.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Assess customer infrastructure, application, virtualization, storage, security, and cloud requirements.
- Design and implement hybrid solutions using Microsoft Azure PaaS, VMware, and HPE or Dell storage technologies.
- Advise customers on workload placement, including on-premises retention, Azure migration, PaaS modernization, and phased hybrid approaches.
- Design secure hybrid connectivity, identity, governance, monitoring, backup, and disaster recovery solutions.
- Develop migration and implementation plans that include testing, validation, rollback, and business continuity requirements.
- Create technical designs, statements of work, bills of materials, implementation plans, as-built documentation, and operational runbooks.
- Lead customer discovery sessions and support pre-sales activities, solution presentations, effort estimates, and technology recommendations.
- Provide senior-level troubleshooting and technical guidance for complex cloud, virtualization, storage, performance, and integration issues.
- Research emerging technologies and recommend improvements, standards, and best practices.
- Provide coaching and technical support to junior team members.
Required Skills/Experience:
- Bachelor's degree, college diploma, or certificate in information technology, computer science, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience and industry certifications
- Seven or more years of progressive experience designing, implementing, or supporting enterprise infrastructure and cloud solutions.
- In-depth experience with Microsoft Azure PaaS, including application hosting, managed databases, integration services, storage, secrets management, monitoring, and private connectivity.
- Strong hands-on experience with VMware vSphere, ESXi, vCenter Server, clustering, high availability, virtual networking, lifecycle management, and migrations.
- Strong experience designing or supporting HPE or Dell enterprise storage, including capacity planning, performance analysis, replication, snapshots, SAN, NAS, Fibre Channel, and iSCSI.
- Experience with Azure networking, Microsoft Entra ID, Azure Policy, role-based access control, Private Link, private endpoints, VPN, and ExpressRoute concepts.
- Working knowledge of Windows Server, Linux, backup, disaster recovery, ransomware resilience, and recovery testing.
- Experience delivering customer-facing professional services engagements with defined scope, timelines, documentation, and acceptance criteria.
- Experience with ITIL-based incident and change management processes.
Preferred Certifications:
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert, AZ-305.
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Administrator Associate, AZ-104.
- VMware Certified Professional, Data Center Virtualization.
- HPE or Dell enterprise storage certification.
- Terraform, Azure DevOps, or related infrastructure automation certification.
Perks & Benefits - What's in it for you?
- 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Company-matched RRSP program
- Comprehensive travel medical coverage
- Professional certification reimbursement for relevant career development
- Mental Health Counselling and Family Assistance Program
- Community involvement and volunteer opportunities
- Give back while getting paid with dedicated volunteer time
- Competitive Extended health care benefits ($1500 per year massage therapy coverage)
- Goodlife Fitness corporate rate - It's 25% off memberships
- Recognition and rewards, including score-card performance bonus, and service award bonus
