Architect, Infrastructure Job Description
Architect, infrastructure
provides technical leadership and work together with & guide agile software development team to evolve the Industrial Safety Platform and ecosystem.
Architect, Infrastructure Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Define and execute technology vision, strategy and roadmaps, guiding principles, policies, processes, infrastructure architecture, and planning for all SAP infrastructure initiatives within Bottling Investments Group
Liaison with Regional IT Heads / Infrastructure Mangers to ensure awareness of Infrastructure Architecture and roadmaps
Champion Infrastructure Architecture core principles, ensuring compliance across all Group IT Infrastructure activities
Provides support to the Lead Infrastructure Architect to develop the strategic vision and architectural direction for infrastructure within the Enterprise
Provide consultancy to support platform projects and create ad-hoc infrastructure designs
Evaluate current infrastructure technology
Train and mentor other Infrastructure team members
Gather, analyze and drive project requirements, design and implement multi-layer infrastructure architecture components
Ownership of the Global Infrastructure Architecture function
Drive strategy and oversee all Infrastructure technology and its overall integration
Architect, Infrastructure Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Licensing or Certifications for Architect, Infrastructure
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: AWS, WAN, ITIL, MCSE, SAN, NAS, LAN, PMP, TOGAF, VCP
Education for Architect, Infrastructure
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the architect, infrastructure job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Technical, Education, Technology, Information Systems, Information Technology, Business, Science, Architecture
Skills for Architect, Infrastructure
Desired skills for architect, infrastructure include:
Collaborate and share with the technical community
Infrastructure
Market trends and competitive insights
Software
Storage
Technologies and capabilities of the platform
ITIL Framework
Sarbanes Oxley
Security and business architecture areas
Agile approaches to software development and able to put key Agile principles into practice to deliver solution incrementally
Desired experience for architect, infrastructure includes:
Develop alerting thresholds and alerting standards to appropriate audience
Performance, Trending and capacity planning
Degree in Computer Science or College with 5 years’ experience
Familiarity with architectural frameworks, , TOGAF, DODAF
Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal, good interpersonal skills
Possess a sound understanding of EA functional and business objectives that drive and shape technology requirements and design deliverables
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Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of architect, infrastructure. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for architect, infrastructure
- Creation of Infrastructure Architecture core principles from Global Technology strategy
- Ensuring that the Infrastructure Architecture team deliver the following for all architectural engagements led by other areas of Global Technology
- Represents the Lead Infrastructure Architect as required at architecture governance reviews, such as ARB (Architecture Review Board), EAB (Enterprise Architecture Board), IAR (Intermediate Architecture Review) etc
- Meets with a broad range of business and IT stakeholders to gather requirements for the design of infrastructure solutions
- Acts as the primary infrastructure contact for applications across the Enterprise, with a focus on resiliency, Safety & Soundness, non-functional requirements, scalability and security that is both pragmatic and that lays the foundation for a long-term strategy
- Working with the different infrastructure engineering teams, review existing alerting and monitoring tools to determine most appropriate sources for alerting to operations, and most appropriate approach to triaging of incidents on a per OSI layer basis
- Provide to the clients consultancy about technical infrastructure
- Ensure a smooth implementation of new technologies into the computer system infrastructure
- Create and maintain comprehensive and detailed documentation for all production systems, architectural frameworks - Resolve complex infrastructure issues & outages
- High-end changes like change in cluster, hardware replacement, software/driver Upgradation on production systems
Qualifications for architect, infrastructure
- Hands-on experience in operation large enterprise with user population more than 30,000 plus for maintaining smooth management and operations of the Data network local, regional and wide-area networks and services
- At least 5 years experience in Managing and supporting network architecture
- Use knowledge and understanding of EMC, CISCO and VMware technologies and competitive technology and business applications to credibly and persuasively articulate features and benefits of these products and their value to the customer
- Determine how industry trends, product announcements and advances in technology may impact the customer from becoming obsolete and assesses potential opportunities
- Provide oversight and technical guidance for project work
- Developing nonfunctional requirements
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Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of architect, infrastructure. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for architect, infrastructure
- Create infrastructure designs for the implementation of new solutions
- Investigate, understand and document the current Infrastructure environment
- Developing platform infrastructure server strategies
- Perform consultative, solutions-based design for business clients who desire outsourced infrastructure options to enhance their own technical capabilities
- Determine client requirements and provide designs for complex Hybrid IT solutions including Managed Hosting Infrastructure, Cloud, Virtualization, SAP Hana, VDI and Managed Services Solutions
- Responsible for delivering the appropriate technology solutions across multiple platforms in-line with the infrastructure strategy and roadmap
- Oversee the infrastructure architecture of client environments and are to be considered a subject matter expert for the entire environment within the datacenter
- Collaborate with the client to obtain the solution and associated infrastructure requirements
- Design and document the infrastructure solution that meets or exceeds the requirements utilizing a reference architecture
- Ensure infrastructure solution designs fulfill functional and technical requirements, adhere to processes and standards, and can consistently meet progress against service level agreements (SLAs.)
Qualifications for architect, infrastructure
- Has experience in security, performance tuning, capacity planning, resilience and availability across heterogeneous architectures
- Experience of having worked as part of a matrix-managed delivery team, ideally as a project / product technical lead, solution manager, or equivalent
- Highly comfortable with web, IT, and new media and broadcast technologies
- Strong empathy with the needs of users, stakeholders and colleagues
- Able and willing to challenge the status quo, and to empower others they work with to challenge their own assumptions
- A positive and resilient character
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Our company is hiring for an architect, infrastructure. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for architect, infrastructure
- Experience with IaaS (conceptual and/or practical), including software
- Contributes to the construction of infrastructure architecture components
- Coordinates all conceptual infrastructure architecture components (e.g., data architecture, application architecture, technical architecture)
- Creates the construction of infrastructure architecture components
- Establishes overall infrastructure architecture vision and ensures specific components are appropriately designed and leveraged
- Defines infrastructure architecture standards that are in-line with customer, IT and industry standards
- Responsible for the infrastructure architecture of client environments and is considered the subject matter expert for the entire environment within the data center
- Ensure infrastructure solution design fulfills functional and technical requirements and can consistently meet progress against service level agreements (SLA's)
- Mentor team members performing engineering and operational activities
- Hands on engineering, configuration, and of highly available server infrastructures
Qualifications for architect, infrastructure
- Experience in providing High Availability and Fault tolerance, load balancing and proxying
- Prior experience in Java JEE technology stack would be a plus
- Knowledge about industry standards and IT trends in Cloud computing, mobile solutions
- TOGAF certification will be beneficial
- You work well in a fast paced, collaborative environment
- You have strong capabilities in authoring technical documentation including HLD/LLD/NIP
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Our company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of architect, infrastructure. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for architect, infrastructure
- Provide advanced technical expertise, oversight and accountability for resolution of outages, service level issues and other events in partnership with support teams
- Ability to multi-task, managing multiple tasks at one time
- Demonstrated ability to translate business requirements into IT solutions
- Ability to articulate end-to-end technical requirements across delivery functions
- Understands systems dependencies and interrelation to the business
- Able to define process improvements
- Understanding of the competitive IT landscape from both a business and technical perspective
- Drives understanding of underlying customer issues beyond the obvious
- Identifies, researches and pilots new technologies
- Contributes to overall platform architecture vision and ensures specific components are appropriately designed and leveraged
Qualifications for architect, infrastructure
- Customer facing skills to represent Blizzard IT services well within the organization and drive discussions with business units regarding business needs, use cases, and relevant technology services
- Demonstrate ability to think strategically about business, product, and technical challenges
- Highly technical and analytical, possessing a minimum of 7 years’ experience in IT implementation
- Integration of cloud technologies with on-premises technologies from Microsoft, Oracle, HP, VMware
- Expert level knowledge of VMware platforms (vRealize Suite, NSX, vSphere)
- Configuration management using Chef & Puppet
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Our innovative and growing company is looking to fill the role of architect, infrastructure. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for architect, infrastructure
- Review critical customer platform advisories, assess their potential impact to our existing infrastructure, and suggest steps for remediation
- Work occasional non-business hours in support of infrastructure and application maintenance (outages, upgrades)
- 12+ years experience with a Bachelor's degree
- Understand the competitive landscape from both a business and technical perspective
- Server Hardware Vendors (HP, Dell, IBM, Cisco)
- Physical Servers and Blade Technology
- Unix (RHEL, CentOS, AIX, Solaris, HPUX, LDAP)
- Symantec (Endpoint Protection, Netbackup)
- Monitoring (BMC, CA, Shavlik, LANSweeper)
- Cisco Nexus
Qualifications for architect, infrastructure
- Infrastructure design and implementation experience in global financial services or investment management industry preferred
- Familiar with managing infrastructure vendors and their products and solutions
- Able to articulate business value and risk for technical solutions
- Comprehensive understanding of the concepts, tools and frameworks behind the design of multi-tiered, highly available, extensible infrastructure environments
- Hands-on experience with key technologies Cisco networks, NetApp & EMC Storage, VMware, Configuration Management
- Requires a minimum of five years Infrastructure and Operations experience, including demonstrated knowledge using and/or supporting monitoring in an enterprise environment