Principal Architect - Private Cloud in London

As our Principal Architect - Private Cloud you'll 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, you'll 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 responsibilities include:

• 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 excellence and 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 Iomart's 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 VMware's 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 transparency between product practices across the Group, removing silos.

You'll 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.

We want to hear from you if you:

• Have experience either from product development or technology within a managed services provider.
• Have experience 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 VMware's 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.

What's in it for me?

£Attractive package

Iomart is the UK’s leading Secure Cloud Managed Services Provider. We are passionate about delivering Hybrid Cloud, Data Protection, Cyber Security and Secure Connectivity to over 9,000 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 prospect of being a key driver of change across our business. If you do not have an up to date CV or want to discuss the role first, please contact us at careers@iomart.com. We’re an equal opportunities employer and want our vacancies to be available to all, so if you need us to make any reasonable adjustments during the process then just let us know.