Architect Contract role

Contract role focused on supporting cloud migration project, Cyber secuirty reviews, Research Cloud HPC design and build, and strategic programme architecture and governance .

Architectured and Built a Research Cloud Platform on Azure for High Performance Compute.

Drains-up review of Cyber Security Technology services.

Defining and authored over £5m of investment priority business cases across IT and Digital Services.

Authored several board approved business cases for the above investments.

Worked directly alongside the Programme Office lead to ‘bring these projects to life’ and provide governance.

Lead and mentored the technical teams across multiple programmes and projects (Programme governance)

Reviewed, selected and designed an alternative ‘second data centre’ (co-locate) solution.

Resuscitated a stalled Azure Migration project delivering full cloud migration in 6 months.

Designed and delivered a NEW CAF Aligned Azure Landing Zone architecture.

Designed and delivered Azure VMware Solution (AVS) service with HCX Stretched networks.

Designed and delivered new vSAN 8 / ESA Private Cloud Infrastructure (8 node stretch cluster)

Designed migration waves and end-to-end designs for supporting services such as AD/DNS.

Designed and delivered new Cloud Based Rubrik Backup Solution for Hybrid Continuity and DR

Developed migration runbooks to ensure ‘repeatable’ process.

Moved 80% of servers (on target) to AVS on Azure.

Developed comprehensive strategic roadmap for phase 2 transformation (PAAS, Azure Native, etc.)

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