DC Cloud SME - Ansible

Overview

Remote
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - Independent
Contract - W2

Skills

DC Cloud SME - Ansible

Job Details

Title: DC Cloud SME - Ansible

Location: Remote

Terms: Contract

Job Description

Role Responsibilities

  • 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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