Solutions Architect

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🔥 12 hours ago

🇿🇦 South Africa – Remote

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

💻 Solutions Engineer

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Babble

WebsiteLinkedInAll Job Openings

201 - 500 employees

Founded 2001

🤝 B2B

🔒 Cybersecurity

📡 Telecommunications

💰 $9M Private equity on 2015-01

B2B • Cybersecurity • Telecommunications

Babble is a UK-based B2B technology services firm that helps small and mid-sized businesses modernize and manage their core technology. It provides Microsoft 365 and Azure integration, cloud and IT managed services, cybersecurity assessments and ongoing protection, unified communications and PSTN migration support, and customer experience platform work. Babble focuses on making fragmented technology estates work as a single Core Operating System, improving security, performance, and AI readiness.

📋 Description

• Lead hands-on implementation of complex, high-risk and multi-domain customer projects • Build, configure and deploy Microsoft Azure environments, landing zones, management groups, subscriptions, Azure Policy, RBAC and cost governance • Implement Azure networking, hybrid connectivity, Azure Firewall, NSGs, VPN Gateway, Private Endpoints and Azure DNS • Deploy identity and access solutions using Microsoft Entra ID, Entra Connect, Cloud Sync, Conditional Access and Privileged Identity Management • Deliver Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365 deployments, including host pools, image management, FSLogix, scaling and security baselines • Plan and execute server, workload and data migrations to Azure using Azure Migrate • Implement Azure Backup and Azure Site Recovery, including recovery testing against agreed RTO and RPO • Configure security and monitoring across Azure and Microsoft 365 using Defender for Cloud, Defender XDR, Microsoft Sentinel, Azure Monitor and Log Analytics • Automate deployments using PowerShell, Azure CLI and Infrastructure as Code with Bicep, ARM and/or Terraform • Deploy and configure Microsoft 365, Intune, Sophos, Mimecast and Acronis solutions • Act as final technical escalation point, diagnosing and resolving complex configuration, integration and environment issues • Produce High-Level Designs, Low-Level Designs and Statements of Work • Provide design assurance, technical guidance and design reviews throughout delivery • Support pre-sales scoping, solution qualification, technical feasibility assessments and proposal design input • Conduct customer technical design reviews and secure solution architecture sign-off • Define technical standards, deployment checklists, configuration baselines and design templates • Validate UAT results and technical acceptance against approved designs and Statements of Work • Mentor Level 1 and Level 2 engineers and support their career progression • Collaborate with Support Desk, NOC, Product Managers and Solution Leads on operational supportability • Identify and communicate risks, design constraints and technical dependencies • Lead post-implementation design reviews and incorporate lessons learned into standards • Maintain expert technical skills and vendor certifications across the Babble solution portfolio

🎯 Requirements

• Extensive experience of solution design and delivery across Modern Workplace, Cyber Security, Backup/DR, Networking and Azure • Demonstrable authorship of High-Level Designs, Low-Level Designs and Statements of Work • Pre-sales technical experience • Track record of mentoring and raising the technical capability of a delivery team • Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert (AZ-305), or current successor certification — desired • Microsoft Certified: Cybersecurity Architect Expert (SC-100), or current successor certification — desired • Microsoft 365 Certified: Administrator Expert (MS-102), or current successor certification — desired • Sophos Certified Architect certifications for Sophos Firewall and Sophos Central Endpoint/Server, with corresponding Sophos Certified Engineer prerequisites — desired • Acronis Certified Engineer (Cyber Protect) — desired • Mimecast Certified Product Professional, Advanced level — desired • PRINCE2 7th Edition Practitioner or equivalent project management certification — advantageous • ITIL 4 Foundation or ITIL Version 5 Foundation — advantageous • CISSP or equivalent senior security certification; CompTIA Security+ is an acceptable foundational alternative — advantageous • CrowdStrike Falcon certifications such as CCFA or CCFR and familiarity with Falcon Complete — advantageous • Suitable home working setup with desk and chair in a quiet space • Stable internet connection • A solution to mitigate loadshedding; working from a public space is not acceptable

🏖️ Benefits

• Risk cover, including Life Cover, Critical Illness Cover, funeral benefits and some Disability benefits • 22 days holiday Balance PLUS UK Bank Holidays, with increased annual leave based on length of service • 5% allowance based on basic salary that can be towards Medical Aid • UPS provided to assist with load shedding (2-4hrs power for a laptop) • Babble issued laptop • Annual Company Celebrations • Home-based working • Stable internet connection support requirement for home working