Hiring! DC Infrastructure Architect & Cloud Architect with Ansible - Remote

Overview

Full Time
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - W2
Contract - Independent
Contract - 12Month(s)

Skills

Azure
cloud
network
storage
Infrastructure
server
Data Center
Ansible

Job Details

Job Role: Infrastructure Architect & Cloud Architect with Ansible

Type: Contract

Location: Remote (US)

Visa Status: (NO DUAL CITIZENSHIP)

Work in conjunction with enterprise architect on design, strategy, and standards; documents and

publishes appropriate infrastructure architecture principles and standards, position papers,

blueprints, best practices, patterns, and frameworks

Set strategic direction for various infrastructure technologies such as public cloud, directory

services, collaboration services, network, storage, server, database and security best practices

Promotion of shared infrastructure and applications to reduce costs and improve information flows.

Ensure that projects do not duplicate functionality or diverge from each other and business and IT

strategies.

Serve as level-4 escalation point for operations team and assist with problem resolution and root

cause analysis as needed

Plans for life and refresh cycles. Ensures that architected solutions work in line with application,

network, desktop, server, storage, etc.

Develops and monitors technology architecture and technology vision; determines current and

future enterprise infrastructure needs

Ensures that installations and upgrades are done in accordance with established policies,

procedures, and license agreements

Identifies, implements, and monitors best practices for infrastructure technology architecture

Reviews software requirements and designs architecture for high availability and disaster recovery

as per business requirements

TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS

Minimum 5 years of architecture-related experience, at least 3 of which needs to be working as an

architect

Minimum 3 years of recent experience in financial services industry

Experience in IT Consulting is preferred

Ability to work with and lead Infrastructure and DevOps teams towards IT infrastructure solutions

Expert knowledge of standard infrastructure components such as Windows-based servers,

enterprise network components, public cloud Infrastructure/PaaS technologies, Microsoft

Exchange/Office 365, Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft SQL Server, Server Virtualization,

Enterprise SAN Storage

Cloud certification in AWS, Azure or Google Cloud

GENERAL QUALIFICATIONS

Excellent written and oral communications

Must be proficient in English

Ability to work with and present solution ideas to C-level executives

Demonstrated history of enterprise application Infrastructure design & several years' experience

creating enterprise Infrastructure architectures and solutions

Experience in leading projects

Experience with merger and acquisition IT Infrastructure planning

Analytical skills and ability to see the big picture

High degree of curiosity about new technologies

Negotiation and persuasion skills

EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS

B.S. in Computer Science or Software Engineering with at least 5 years of experience in hardware

architecture or system architecture or MS in Computer Science or Software Engineering with at

least 7 years in hardware and network systems architecture

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