Principal Architect Private Cloud

As our Principal Architect - Private Cloud youll be part of our private cloud centre of excellence supporting the development of VMware-based private and public cloud platforms. From technology and product roadmap requirements youll provide guidance and act as a decision maker on behalf of technical leadership on the adoption and investment of go-forward technologies and identify validate and design solutions for our product portfolio.

Additional responsibilitiesinclude:

• Working closely with Product Management the Technology office and voice of the customer stakeholders to create and maintain a research and development roadmap that aligns with internal technology product and strategic alliance partner objectives.
• Translate customer and business requirements into technically feasible solutions by producing reference architectures and validating functional and non-functional requirements of chosen technologies.
• Prototype and validate new capabilities in lab or pre-production environments providing recommendations for productisation and operationalisation.
• Act as a contributor and decision maker within the extended centre of excellenceand technical design authority.
• Justify through business case development the investments required by the business to realise corporate and portfolio strategies.
• Understand and inform the business on how cloud technologies primarily VMware by Broadcom will operate alongside Iomarts extended technology ecosystems.
• Work beyond the remit of cloud and contribute to the development of adjacent technologies by working closely with architects responsible for networking security and storage and take shared accountability for the development of our platforms.
• Actively engage with market intelligence sources to provide current and forward thinking thought leadership on cloud technology trends and market drivers particularly VMwares development roadmap to provide competitive awareness to the business.
• Act as an evangelist for our cloud solutions supporting communication and training within the business on VMware technologies and best practices.
• Own and maintain solution architecture standards including design patterns documentation (reference architectures HLD LLD) and quality assurance and acceptance testing frameworks.
• Act as an approver and decision maker for the Go Live readiness of services and major service changes.
• Ensure there is ongoing collaboration and transparencybetween product practices across the Group removing silos

Youll be critical to Iomart retaining and maximising its VMware Pinnacle VCSP status and remaining at the front of the market for scalable secure hybrid cloud managed services

• Have experience either from product development or technology within a managed services provider
• Have experiencing designing private cloud platforms in an MSP environment including the design of networking (ACI VMware NSX) storage (fibre-channel vSAN) data protection (backup and recovery) and security (secure by design best practice network security IdAM).
• Have proven experience designing and implementing VMware-based cloud solutions across VMware Cloud Director legacy vSphere solutions and VMware Cloud Foundation 9.x.
• Have experience actively participating in VMwares partner forums including the VMware User Group Broadcom Knights or VMware vExpert Programme.
• Are experienced in documenting technical roadmaps implementation plans and high-level/low-level designs.
• Can contribute to business case development and decision making rationale to senior (C-suite director) stakeholders.

Qualifications/Credentials required:

• VMware Certified Advanced Professional - VMware Cloud Foundation Architect
• VMware Certified Advanced Professional - VMware Cloud Foundation Networking / Storage / Automation / Operations.
  
  

Attractive package

Iomart is the UKs leading Secure Cloud Managed Services Provider. We are passionate about delivering Hybrid Cloud Data Protection Cyber Security and Secure Connectivity to over 9000 organisations in the UK and globally.

• We have over 25 years expertise in data centre and cloud services
• Over 600 skilled professionals and turnover over 143m
• Our HQ is in Glasgow and offices across the UK.
• We provide critical services across all public and private sectors

This particular role will be part of the Product & Innovation function with a peer group of principal architects covering our other practices.

We are a Broadcom Pinnacle VCSP a Microsoft Azure Expert MSP and a Commvault Elite MSP - we use industry leading cutting-edge technology to deliver high value integrated services to organisations across the globe.

Please click apply if you like the challenge this role presents and the prospectof being a key driver of change across our business. If you do not have an up to date CV or want to have discuss the role first please contact us at

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