IT Infrastructure Analyst
Department: Technology
Employment Type: Fixed Term Contract
Location: Remote
Description
Sumer is a values led, purpose driven professional services group on an ambitious growth journey. Built through acquisition, Sumer brings together high quality regional firms under a collaborative and entrepreneurial model. As the Group continues to scale, we are establishing a permanent procurement function to support commercial performance, supplier governance and operational consistency across the business. We are seeking an experienced IT Infrastructure Analyst to support a major transformation programme, consolidating multiple accountancy firms into a centralised Microsoft Azure environment. This role will play a key part in migrating diverse legacy infrastructures (including on premises and existing cloud estates) into a unified, secure, and scalable Azure platform. The contractor will work closely with internal IT teams, third party vendors, and business stakeholders to ensure smooth and efficient transitions.
Key Responsibilities
- Support the migration of infrastructure, systems, and services into Azure
- Assess and document existing environments (on prem, hybrid, and cloud based)
- Design and implement migration strategies (lift and shift, replatforming, or modernisation)
- Ensure security, compliance, and governance standards are maintained throughout
- Troubleshoot and resolve migration related issues
- Collaborate with project managers to track progress and manage risks
- Produce clear technical documentation and handover materials
- Provide knowledge transfer to internal teams post migration
Execute migrations of:
- Servers and virtual machines
- Active Directory / Azure AD (Entra ID)
- File services and storage
- Line of business applications
- Support tenant consolidation and identity integration across multiple entities
Skills, Knowledge & Expertise
Strong hands on experience with Microsoft Azure, including:
- Azure Virtual Machines, Networking, Storage
- Azure Migrate and related tooling
- Azure AD / Entra ID, identity management, and hybrid identity
- Proven experience delivering infrastructure migration or transformation projects
Experience migrating from:
- On premises environments (VMware / Hyper V)
- Existing cloud platforms (Azure / AWS)
Solid understanding of:
- Networking (VPNs, firewalls, routing)
- Security best practices in cloud environments
- Backup and disaster recovery solutions
- Experience with Microsoft 365 tenant migrations
- Strong troubleshooting and problem solving skills
- Experience within professional services or accountancy firms
- Familiarity with accountancy platforms such as CCH & IRIS
- Azure Landing Zones
- Infrastructure as Code (e.g. ARM, Bicep, Terraform)
- Endpoint management (Intune)
- Data migration tools and strategies