Infrastructure Architect

Job ID: DEV-IND-2217

Department: Software Services
Job Type: Permanent
Location: India

Job Details

Looking for an experienced infrastructure architect with keen business acumen and the drive to adopt latest technologies across the enterprise. 

Key responsibilities:

  • Understanding of Customer strategies and business requirements
  • Create Architectural technologies and business roadmap that result in strong business / IT alignment and drive adoption and usage of technology across the enterprise.
  • Collaborate with key other infra domains, presales, and customer architect.
  • Have strong delivery & solution architecture view, assess business needs capacity management, and establish the technical framework
  • Acting as a key resource in the project lifecycle, from driving the initiation and infrastructure design to overseeing implementation.
  • Producing high-level and detailed technical designs and documentation for complex technical solutions. Mapping requirements onto practical, maintainable solutions, taking into account cost, quality, and complexity.
  • Creating and maintaining a repository for infrastructure artifacts covering the infrastructure architecture continuum.
  • Participate in Architecture design reviews and other technical governance forums across the organization representing the infrastructure team across multiple projects.
  • Assisting in defining and maintaining architectural, security, and technical standards, reflecting evolving technology and emerging best practice.
  • Providing ongoing mentoring to others in IT, including support teams.
  • Design and handhold the following technologies
    • Virtualization VCF
    • Coverage & Software define infrastructure.
    • Data Centre migration
    • Compute, Storage & backup
    • Data Centre Build & Implementation
    • Network (LAN & WAN) and Security
    • Service Integration & management tools
    • Disaster recovery and BCP
  • Excellent ability to handle Customers & IT Vendors
  • Excellent verbal & written communication skills to effectively present findings and reports at local and senior business management levels.

Requirements (Qualifications/Experience/Competencies)

  • 12+ years of overall work experience in the commercial and/or enterprise IT space.
  • Sound understanding of broader Data Centre technologies (Server, Storage, Networks, Server Virtualisation, etc.)
  • Experience in designing and deploying applications for Cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/G)
  • Experience in DevOps, CI/CD, and IAC
  • Design and deliver multi-tiered application infrastructure, including design changes to existing services.
  • Understand and apply IT security best practices, principles, and accreditations (ISO27001) to create high-level and low-level design elements as per project requirements.
  • Understand complex networking topologies and technologies.
  • Strong communicator, capable of understanding business requirements and translating them into IT approaches.
  • Create relevant build and design standards that promote re-use and shorten the delivery lifecycle of infrastructure assets. Participate in architecture design reviews and provide appropriate architecture governance.
  • Track record of successfully achieving project deadlines, budgets, and quality standards.
  • Industry certification and knowledge of architecture and delivery frameworks are distinct advantages.
  • Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science