Enterprise Infrastructure Architect

g solutions to the world's top automotive manufacturers

Summary of Position:

The Enterprise Infrastructure Architect supports delivery teams implementing technical solutions for global projects that meet our business requirements. The Enterprise Infrastructure Architect is involved from the initial shaping of the solution, creating designs and developing them into a High Level Design deliverable with associated cost estimations for execution and steady state operations.

The Enterprise Infrastructure Architect works closely with other Architects in order to identify, recommend, develop, implement, and support cost-effective solutions.

Responsibilities:

Primary responsibilities of this position are related to the architecture and delivery of solutions leveraging IT standards. Some of the specific responsibilities of this role include:

• Author architecture artefacts including ROM (Rough order of Magnitude) , HLD (High Level Design) & BRD (Business Requirement Document) for programs, projects and initiatives.

• Own the solution end to end, incorporating input from other Solution Architects, Enterprise Architects, business partners, SME's and Vendors.

• Highlight areas of risk and dependency, with associated mitigation proposals.

• Oversee all technical aspects of implementations end-to-end.

• Maintain in-depth knowledge of the organization's technologies and architectures including cloud, on-premise hosting and networking.

• Develop logical, conceptual and physical architectural models.

• Communicate solutions, architectural decisions, plans, and goals to project teams and business functions.

• Support business and IT strategic planning.

• Support the Enterprise Architecture Governance processes.

• Review new and existing program/project architecture for compliance with IT standards, policies and architectural plans.

Candidate Qualifications:

The Enterprise Infrastructure Architect will be able to conceptualize, plan, document and communicate effectively. The Enterprise Infrastructure Architect will be an effective communicator and leader. The candidate will possess energy, have a flexible approach, be a creative thinker, develop value-added service definitions, and help lead change.

The successful candidate for this position will have the following experience and expertise:

• 10+ years relevant work experience with at least 6+ years' experience as an Enterprise Infrastructure Architect.

• Knowledge of operating systems, virtualization, Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI), backup & storage and infrastructure tooling.

• Knowledge of AWS, Azure or GCP cloud platforms.

• Develop and implement physical data center, office and manufacturing network designs, with a focus on redundancy, high availability, and fault tolerance.

• Ability to multi task across several projects simultaneously.

• Clear thinker who anticipates and develops strategies for anticipated future consequences and trends on both application and infrastructure components.

• Works collaboratively with multiple levels to develop innovative creative solutions to meet business requirements.

• Knowledge of current and future IT technology trends.

• Deals with concepts and complexity comfortably.

• Effective communicator and presenter in formal and informal settings.

• Self-motivated and team-oriented.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or information systems

• Industry IT certifications are a plus

Technology Skills:

• VMWare and virtualization technologies

• Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI)

• Wide experience with Storage technologies:

  • Dell Storage
  • CommVault Data Protection
  • VMware vSAN
  • HPE Storage: Alletra, EVA, 3Par

• Wide experience with server hardware, but not limited to:

  • Dell
  • HPE

• Good experience working with networking, specifically Cisco routing and switching.

• Good experience working with wireless technologies.

• Good experience working with server operating systems including Windows and Linux.

• Experience of security technologies (encryption, access & authentication, network segmentation, firewalls).

• Experience of infrastructure monitoring and tooling.

• Experience working with and architecting solutions in the Cloud:

  • AWS

  • Azure

  • GCP

Application and Database experience considered advantageous.

Apply today, and together let's change tomorrow!

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