Hybrid Cloud Architect

Core Focus Areas

• Title:

  Hybrid Cloud Architect

• Solution Architecture

   focused on

  Hybrid Cloud

• Strong experience in

  Hybrid Cloud(Private Cloud (on-premises) and Public Cloud)

   and

  VMware / Microsoft Azure / Azure Local

• Slightly less experience into

  Public Cloud

   is also considerable.
• Profiles from Broadcom, Dell, Microsoft would be suitable fit to look for
• Hands-on creation, deployment, and end-to-end architectural ownership (Professional Services Experience).

Hybrid Cloud Experience

• Predominantly private cloud (on-premises) experience.
• Blend of Both Private Cloud & Public Cloud is what is being expected.
• Public cloud familiarity (preferably Azure/AWS/GCP) is acceptable.
• Experience creating reusable architecture patterns, frameworks, and documentation

Technological Depth

• Strong expertise in either one of the following key technology domains---

1. VMware

    stack experience

   (

   vSphere / ESXi  Compute virtualization, vCenter Server  Centralized management, NSX / NSX-T – Network virtualization and micro segmentation, vSAN – Software-defined storage, VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) – Full-stack hybrid cloud platform, VMware HCX – Seamless workload migration, VMware Tanzu – Kubernetes and container orchestration, VMware Cloud on AWS / Azure VMware Solution)

2. Microsoft  Azure

   (Azure Arc – Hybrid and multicloud management, Azure Stack Hub / Edge / HCI – On-premises Azure services, Azure Site Recovery – Disaster recovery and failover, Azure ExpressRoute / VPN Gateway – Hybrid connectivity, Azure Active Directory (AAD) – Identity and access management, Azure Monitor / Log Analytics – Observability and diagnostics, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS) – Container orchestration)

3. Azure Local

    (Hyper-V – Virtualization layer, Storage Spaces Direct (S2D) – Software-defined storage, Azure Arc Resource Bridge – Connects on-prem to Azure, Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) – Local session hosts, AKS on Azure Local – Container orchestration, Azure Update Manager – Patch management, Azure Monitor / Defender for Cloud – Security and observability

• Hands-on exposure to

  Red Hat

   and

  OpenShift

   platforms
• Full lifecycle experience: from planning, design to deployment of hybrid solutions
• Must have executed

  on-the-ground deployments

  —not just strategy or oversight