Cloud Architect

Are you passionate about providing digital transformation solutions to your clients and want to work for a company that has made a commitment to excellence?

We are looking for a dynamic and results-focused Cloud and Infrastructure Architect for our Edmonton branch to design and deliver solutions across infrastructure and Azure Cloud - Public, Private, datacenter, storage, virtualization and Business Applications. This is a hands-on role that blends solution architecture, presales leadership, and delivery oversight, working with clients on complex transformation initiatives.

A Day in the Life:

• Working with customers and internal stakeholders, defining customer solutions, and delivering engagements that are innovative and exceed business requirements
• Continuously improve team processes to ensure information is of the highest quality, contributing to the overall effectiveness of the team
• Ensure technology designs and implementations solve clients’ requirements and challenges
• Design, and implement standard or custom technical solutions
• Develop complete customer-focused technology solutions for current and new service offerings, considering all aspects of architecture including business and technical requirements, sizing, infrastructure, data protection, security and recovery items
• Create relevant documentation as required including conceptual design, logical and physical designs, bill of materials, as-built diagrams, knowledge transfer materials, FAQs, and transition to operations information
• Collaborate with other team members to develop and enhance deliverables
• Provide pre-sales technical assistance, demonstrations, and product education as required
• Meet with clients to determine needs and/or identify problem areas
• Develop estimates, Statements of Work (SOWs) and proposals which outline professional services required to meet client requirements
• Represent Long View at vendor and industry events as required
• Participate and contribute including sharing learnings and information with the larger Long View team that is not present at the event
• Assist with hosting presentations and/or education sessions such as Lunch & Learns
• Align with clients to build long term relationships that further business value for both the client and Long View
• Analyze complex requirements and develop IT strategies and multi-technology solutions that are aligned with industry-accepted best practices
• Stay abreast of architectural and industry changes, especially in the areas of Cloud

What You Bring:

• 10+ years in enterprise solution architecture, consulting, or senior engineering roles with a strong infrastructure technology stack focus (compute, storage, database, containers, serverless, migrations)
• Possess and demonstrate experience in architecting and implementing industry leading technologies and solutions at an enterprise level.
• Expertise in managing client requirements through strong business and technical consulting skills and be proficient in creating complex multi-technology solutions across multiple architecture domains.
• Work with multiple business units, service delivery practices, and technical disciplines to lead opportunities from pre-sales through to successful implementation and conclusion, and hand-off to operational support or PS delivery.
• 5+ years of industry experience multi-technology solutions through diverse business and technical consulting

• Design and implement Azure Local (formerly Azure Stack HCI) solutions, including highly available hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), compute, storage, and networking.

• Architect integration with Azure Arc, Azure management services, identity, monitoring, security, and governance to enable centralized management of on-premises infrastructure.
• Lead the assessment, planning, and migration of workloads from VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix and traditional datacenters to Azure Local, ensuring minimal downtime and business disruption.
• Design resilient architectures incorporating clustering, fault tolerance, backup, disaster recovery, network security, and business continuity best practices.
• Lead end-to-end solution delivery, including hardware sizing, capacity planning, architecture documentation, proof of concepts, deployment standards, troubleshooting, and collaboration with infrastructure, cloud, and application teams.
• Ability to effectively communicate to different audiences including stakeholders and peers clearly and concisely in written, oral and various presentation formats and situations
• Proven pre-sales capabilities and technological leadership experience
• Proven ability to understand and capture complex business requirements to create technical solutions
• Familiarity with IT architecture principles and industry frameworks to work within the approved Long View Systems architecture frameworks and methodologies
• Professional services consulting experiences
• Excellent problem-solving and multitasking skills

What Makes You Extra Awesome:

• Technical Certifications for Microsoft Azure
• Technical Certifications from Citrix, Nutanix, VMWare
• TOGAF Certified

Why Work at Long View:

• Great people and culture
• Comprehensive benefits package from day one
• Career growth - Permanent staff positions, paid training, career life planning, and relocation and travel opportunities
• Interesting work - Be part of exciting projects while accessing all the latest technologies
• Flexible environment - A workplace that values the importance of flexibility for personal/professional growth, happiness and wellness