Michael Atkins Email & Phone Number

England, United Kingdom

Hove, England, United Kingdom

Brighton, United Kingdom

As head of Head of Infrastructure Architecture my role acts as a critical bridge between the design teams and the Strategy Director, with an ability to shape delivery against the current short-term architecture road map for the next 5 years and is a key position to help shape the future strategy and road-maps.Key role highlights:• Design and provision Legal and Generals Public Cloud;• Providing standard design templates for Hybrid Cloud and best workload placement;• Design and migrate on-prem workloads to full Hybrid Cloud;• Investigate and design solutions for cutting edge technology;• Matrix management of the design function made up of architects and design authorities.

Hove (Brighton & Hove)

Providing first line Infrastructure Architecture design, governance and implementation support for strategic change and transformation initiatives (e.g. End User Computing refresh, Microsoft Office 365 services adoption, Public Cloud - AWS/Azure).Providing appropriate guidance, advice and governance oversight to Legal and Generals business unit change teams to ensure the integrity of central IT services where business change activity crosses the recognised shared infrastructure boundary.Management and escalation of identified IT Infrastructure technology risk and issues, ensuring that significant items are escalated in a timely manner using the appropriate risk control frameworks and processes.Key Skills:• Public Cloud• Microsoft Azure• Azure Active Directory (Azure AD)• Amazon Web Services (AWS)• IT Security• Governance• IT Transformation• Windows 10• Enterprise Mobility• End User Computing (EUC)

Worthing

Configuring & deploying PaaS, IaaS using Microsoft Azure.Configuring & deploying PaaS, IaaS using Microsoft WAP.Key Skills:Microsoft ServersRemote Desktop Services, Hyper-V (HA/Failover Clustering).Linux Red Hat Enterprise.Configuring and deploying Microsoft System Centre 2012 products including: SCOM, SCCM and VMM.Configuring & deploying Exchange 2010/2013.Migration of Active Directory 2008 to Server 2012.Red Hat Enterprise virtualisationSome Project Management5+ years’ experience working with Windows Server 2003, 2008 and 2012 (R2).Microsoft Azure deployments.