Role: Infrastructure Architect
Location: Iselin, NJ, 08830 (3 days' work from office, no flexibility) Ideal to look someone local to the location
Job Purpose:
The Infrastructure Architect plays a key role in client s architecture / technology division. The role involves producing designs and overseeing the implementation of solutions encompassing hardware, software, and security to ensure performance, scalability, and reliability, bridging business needs on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments.
This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements, providing technical leadership, and ensuring designs meet client architectural principles and security standards. The architect should be a strong technologist that is very aware of current developments in the technology spectrum.
Key Responsibilities:
- Produce high-quality High Level Design documentation describing technical systems solutions, providing overall design direction and recommendations for resolution of complex technical issues.
- Analyse existing Design documents, find recommended options in the market, produce presentations to the Architect team with options and reasoning and later proceed with Design documents.
- Provide technical leadership and direction to the IT engineering, delivery and test teams throughout implementation phases.
- Support the Enterprise Architects in the development of infrastructure road maps to support the evolution of the technical and digital portfolios from current to future state.
- Act as a liaison between Architecture and Engineering and direct the development of technical standards and platforms, quality, and best practices.
Required Skills and Experience:
- Strong technical knowledge including Microsoft technologies, Red Hat Linux, Data Centre and Cloud, enterprise networking, WAN/LAN/WLAN, routing, firewall, IDS/IPS, WAN optimization, proxy, VPN services, load balancing, and IT security.
- Experience designing, documenting, integrating, and managing complex infrastructure solutions across on-premises and cloud environments such as AWS.
- Knowledge of networking, storage and server hardware configuration and design.
- Good knowledge of cloud networking (AWS and Azure) components.
- Ability to communicate solutions to other stakeholders.
- Ability to assess and recommend third-party tools and services to complement existing offerings.
- Stakeholder management.
- Knowledge of security design.
- Good knowledge of Risk management
- Work closely with other architecture disciplines including Enterprise, Infrastructure and Security, as well Engineering and Operations
- Provide technical guidance to team members and stakeholders.
- Identify and recommend opportunities for efficiency.
- Stay updated on new features and capabilities and best practices.
- Ability to deal with ambiguity and manage diversity.
- Share knowledge with the team and contribute to the organization's learning culture.
Education and Certification:
- Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
- Industry recognized certifications such as TOGAF, CITA, RHCA
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