Overview
The Technical Infrastructure Architect will play a pivotal role in a major VMware to Microsoft Hyper-V migration project within the financial services sector. This position requires collaboration with the internal infrastructure team to assess existing VMware systems, design the target Hyper-V architecture, and develop a comprehensive migration strategy. The successful candidate will leverage their virtualization expertise to ensure a smooth transition and maintain the operational integrity of the new environment.
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.
- Recommend appropriate migration tooling and methodologies.
- Collaborate 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.
Requirements
- Proven experience as a Virtualization Architect or Infrastructure Architect.
- Strong enterprise VMware experience.
- Strong Microsoft Hyper-V experience.
- 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.