About the Role
This role is a contractor resource augment embedded within our customer, where V2 currently provides cloud architecture and engineering support. The contractor will operate as the effective cloud authority on the account — filling the function of the customers internal cloud architect while working under V2's engagement model.
Responsibilities
- Act as the primary cloud authority for the customer's Azure environment, guiding architecture decisions and overseeing the health of the platform.
- Manage relationships and technical escalations across their managed service providers, diagnosing, arbitrating, and driving resolution for vendor disputes.
- Investigate and resolve cloud networking issues across a heterogeneous, inconsistently-patterned estate, translating between on-premises networking concepts and cloud equivalents.
- Provide hands-on involvement in platform tasks (Azure console, CLI, VM configuration) where MSPs are slow, under-skilled, or not on the hook.
- Guide internal stakeholders and project teams on cloud architecture matters, security implications, and vendor accountability.
- Build documented understanding of the environment to support continuity and eventual handover, contributing to modernizing their cloud practice.
- Demonstrate basic FinOps awareness and the ability to identify optimization opportunities.
Requirements
- Strong, hands-on Azure experience is non-negotiable, with Azure as the primary cloud platform.
- Solid understanding of Azure networking (VNets, NSGs, peering, routing, DNS, firewalls) and the ability to bridge that with on-premises networking concepts.
- Experience in traditional infrastructure (sysadmin, on-prem networking, Windows/Linux environments).
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, with experience in technical to non-technical and vendor-to-vendor translation.
Skills
- Azure
- Cloud networking
- Azure networking (VNets, NSGs, peering, routing, DNS, firewalls)
- On-premises networking concepts
- Traditional infrastructure
- Sysadmin
- Windows environments
- Linux environments
- Communication
- Stakeholder management
- FinOps awareness
Work Type
- Contractor
About the Company
- V2 AI is a leading AI-Native consultancy backed by $30m in VC funding.
- We harness the power of AI to accelerate business outcomes for some of the world's largest brands.
- We bring decades of experience and a unique delivery model to partner with our customers on the most complex problems for immense, measurable impact.
- Our Services include AI Strategy & Governance, AI Literacy & Enablement, AI Build & Assurance, and AI & Data Security.
