Cloud/Infrastructure Architect

Job Description:             

Responsibilities

• The Senior Infrastructure Architect will gain organizational alignment for all high-level infrastructure plans related to but not limited to, Private Cloud, Servers, Virtualization, and Storage; and initiate and participate in projects to evaluate technologies and methods for implementing these plans
• Responsible for designing scalable and adaptive hardware solutions that address business needs and satisfy operational needs within the Enterprise standards
• Create standardized visual design diagrams of logical infrastructure, including platform, storage, and networking information
• Participate in technical architecture discussions to determine the most-appropriate scalable model, taking into consideration high availability, failover, disaster recovery, and cost
• Actively participate in project, support, and development initiatives designing solutions to optimally address current and future business requirements and infrastructure plans

Qualifications

• 5+ years related work experience working with infrastructure technologies – support, setup, monitoring and performance testing
• A minimum of 5 years in an Infrastructure Architect role in developing infrastructure design solutions covering network, server, database, application, and reporting domains
• Ability to translate disparate business strategies into comprehensive, pragmatic technology strategies and execution plans (roadmaps) to satisfy business strategy
• Ability to design and deliver solutions that factor in system performance, usability, quality, cross-system interdependencies, scalability while accounting for development and maintenance costs
• Broad technical expertise with the software and hardware components of modern computing environments, including a deep knowledge and understanding of information technology approaches, applications, architectures, tools, and methodologies, as well as a broad-based background in a wide variety of technology platforms
• Has depth and breadth of expertise in multiple related disciplines, such as Windows Operating systems, Unix Operating Systems (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), server, storage, network, security, virtualization, and cloud technologies
• Demonstrated ability in evaluating and recommending technologies as part of an overall strategic plan, including establishing priorities, developing long-range plans, and managing strategically
• Strong communication skills (written / verbal) with varied audiences
• Experience modeling as-is and to-be architectures based on business requirements
• Solid grasp of the ITIL framework
• Experience with researching/implementing Cloud Based solutions
• Experience explaining difficult concepts to decision makers to help shape technology strategy
• Detailed design knowledge of hardware, networking, database and applications in a large data center scenario
• Active/Active and Disaster Recovery design experience