Cloud Architect

Long View. A career that helps you get more out of life.

A Long View career helps you get more out of life. We don’t just say it, we prove it. Every day. We’re proud of our reputation as one of North America’s most dynamic IT providers — and we’re even prouder of our culture that allows our people to live life to its fullest. At Long View, we create an environment of collaboration and support, of innovation and enthusiasm, of inclusion and belonging. As a member of the Long View team, you’ll see how our company’s core pillars — Integrity, Competence, Value, and Fun — resonate through the workplace. And in a recent survey, 89% of Long View team members rated Long View as a good or great place to work!

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) and Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) architecture 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 from 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

Want to learn more about our culture and life at Long View? Check us out on LinkedIn and Instagram!

Long View’s mission of building the best and most sustainable team-driven organization requires dedicated and ambitious people. Through employee resource groups, impactful and effective conversations, townhalls and various company-wide training, including how to reduce unconscious bias, we are fostering an inclusive environment. We are committed to taking consistent, positive and lifelong action to be a diverse and equitable workplace because we know that the most effective companies are made up of people with varied identities, experiences and backgrounds.

Long View is an equal opportunity employer. If you have any accommodation requests for your interview or the role, please let your friendly Recruiter know