Solution Architect – Azure VWAN Migration Program
Long term contract
Calgary AB-Hybrid
Key Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end solution architecture, design, and governance for migration from Hub-and-Spoke architecture to Azure VWAN.
- Ensure alignment with enterprise architecture, cloud, security, and application modernization standards.
- Define and implement application-centric migration strategies for complete application stacks, including:
- Web applications, Middleware, APIs, Databases, Integrations
- Infrastructure components. Assess current-state applications and design target-state architectures that support scalability, resiliency, security, performance, and maintainability within Azure.
- Perform application portfolio assessments and dependency analysis across:DMZ-hosted applications, Internal systems, Databases, APIs, Shared services, Third-party integrations
- Collaborate with application development teams to review application architecture, identify modernization opportunities, and validate cloud readiness.
- Define and oversee transit firewall decommissioning strategies while maintaining security, compliance, and business continuity.
- Lead the implementation of Web Application Firewall (WAF) architecture and compliance standards in Azure.
- Design and govern Azure VWAN network architecture, including: Routing
- Traffic engineering, User Defined Routes (UDRs), Connectivity, Micro-segmentation, Hybrid-cloud, integration
- Oversee firewall policy redesign and migration for secure communication across DMZ, internal environments, Azure services, and application workloads.
- Define and execute the roadmap to decommission legacy Hub-and-Spoke architecture and transition to Azure VWAN.
- Lead architecture reviews covering: Application integrations, Authentication mechanisms, API communications, Data flows, Service dependencies
- Develop migration patterns, reference architectures, standards, and best practices.
Essential Skills
- Azure Virtual WAN (VWAN)
- Enterprise Architecture
- Solution Architecture
- Application Development
- Application Modernization
- Azure Cloud Architecture
- Network Architecture
- Hub-and-Spoke Migration
- Web Application Firewall (WAF)
- Firewall Policy Design and Migration
- Routing and Traffic Engineering
- User Defined Routes (UDRs)
- Hybrid Cloud Integration
- API Architecture and Integrations
- Application Portfolio Assessment
- Dependency Analysis
- Security and Compliance Governance
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Calgary, AB
