M&A Network & Infrastructure architect

Job Description

Responsible for the effective provision of network & infrastructure architectural services for all mergers & acquisitions.

Responsible for the delivery of network & infrastructure architectural strategy, designs and plans to support mergers & acquisitions.

Set the strategy, principles, and models for how we integrate acquired entities into Cadence Design Systems and guide all solution decisions

Provide technical leadership for all mergers & acquisitions.

Author and publish detailed reports documenting technical integration and transformation.

Survey, assessment, and design network (SDWAN, WAN, LAN, and WLAN) and infrastructure (physical/virtual/cloud servers, storage, database, backup & recovery) factoring requirements for capacity, speed, and redundancy.

Identify all license and support & maintenance contracts related to mergers & acquisitions.

Support troubleshooting to isolate and diagnose common technical problems during integration phases.

Submit, review, and approve technical changes, measures, and monitoring.

Participate in proof-of-concept development to assist in defining technology strategy.

Understand and implement compliance documentation.

Qualifications 

 

• In-depth product knowledge of
• Having an architectural sense for ensuring availability, reliability and scalability are necessary.
• 12+ years' experience in architecture, design, implementation, and/or support of highly complex IT infrastructure.
  • Minimum of 3 year's experience in a M&A solution architect role
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, system analysis or a related study, or equivalent experience

o SDWAN platforms

 

• WAN technologies: Dark fiber, Point to Point leased lines, IEPL (private Lines)
• Network switches, firewalls across various platforms like Cisco, Arista, PAN etc.,
• WLAN technologies on various platforms like Client., Cisco etc
• Microfocus monitoring, Nagios
• SSL VPN remote access
• Cloud networking
• Cloud platforms AWS, Azure, GCP etc.,
• Service virtualization
• Compute - Windows/Linux, VMware, Cisco UCS
• Storage and Backup - NetApp, PURE, Veritas, Rubrik, Zamanda and other Cloud native storage solutions.
• Deep understanding of cloud computing technologies, business drivers, emerging computing trends, and deployment projects (where necessary, managing various stakeholder relationships to get consensus).