Deliverable and Tasks:
· Migrate workloads to M365.
· Migrate remaining servers and applications from the VMWare environment to Microsoft Azure.
· Deploy Nutanix virtual environments to migrate Data Center systems not included in other projects to Nutanix environments.
· Replace remote office VMWare virtual environments with Nutanix systems.
· Review and develop architecture plans for Nutanix and Azure with vendor input.
· Review and develop plans for migration activities to Nutanix and Azure in conjunction with State Fund SMEs and vendor architects.
· Coordinate with other IT teams to research and resolve complex issues.
· Provide technical guidance and resources to other IT teams as needed.
· Escalate critical issues that impact pre-production and production systems when necessary.
· Perform post-event analysis to determine root cause and possible preventive measures.
· Coordinate administrative, maintenance, and support activities of infrastructure to support IT and business initiatives.
· Lead, plan, develop, implement, and participate in project design, system administration, maintenance, and support essential to the mission of client.
· Develop automation using tools such as Ansible and Python to streamline routine tasks.
· Ensure designs meet best practice security guidelines.
· Optimize systems for performance based on their use case.
· Optimize State Fund spending in Azure to prevent overspend.
· Assist State Fund management in proactively managing vendor resources.
· Lead design discussions, research, identify, and provide recommendations on solutions and best practices to improve or resolve mission-critical systems and issues.
· Coordinate with other IT teams to research and resolve complex issues.
· Perform post-event analysis to determine root cause and possible preventative measures.
· Act as a lead role in projects assigned by management.
Participate in the on-call rotation with other Server Operations staff.
Technical Knowledge and Skills:
· Advanced knowledge of security principles and configurations for Azure, Nutanix, M365 and AVD
· Advanced knowledge of Virtualization platforms, in particular VMware, Nutanix and AVD
· Advanced knowledge of Cloud architecture, in particular Azure and AWS
· Advanced knowledge of M365 architecture including Purview
· Advanced knowledge of M365 Purview
· Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Defender/Sentinel
· Solid knowledge of Azure networking design principles.
· At least 2 years technical implementation experience with storage technologies (SAN, FCP/ISCSI and NAS)
· Thorough understanding of networking technologies, including administration of enterprise routers, switches, firewalls and load-balancers (OSI layers 4-7)
· Understanding of network security methodologies as a whole, including but not limited to: ACLs, Stateful firewalls, VPNs (tunneling, IPsec, PPTP, etc.)