Platform Architect

Overview

On Site
Accepts corp to corp applications
Contract - Independent
Contract - W2
Contract - Month(s)
50% Travel

Skills

Infrastructure Advanced Certification
OpenShift
Ansibl

Job Details

Job Title: Platform Architect

Location: Manassas, VA(Hybrid)

Experience: 12+ Years

Job Description:

Reporting into Technology Platform Strategy and Architecture group, the Platform Architect is accountable for leading the development of technology architectures, for the planning and development of solutions as part of the overall Technology Platform in support of business requirements, and for supporting operational activities as part of architecture governance. The architect is responsible for providing High Level Design of the proposed solution and be able to articulate the architecture and technology choices to a variety of audience (senior management, delivery DevOps squad..). The platform architecture work is primarily focus on migrating workload to cloud, enabler our hybrid hosting strategy through blueprint (on-prem, cloud app blueprint, segmentation..)

Responsibilities:

  • Build a strong partnership across the infrastructure and engineering organizations and drive the transformation roadmap and architecture.
  • Analyze and understand user needs and expectations, as well as alternative infrastructure architectures and trends
  • Conduct analyses of technology and associated operational processes, with a view to recommending infrastructure designs and strategies that will improve service, lower costs, and prevent unforeseen operational issues.
  • Design services in technology solutions, operations architecture and SWIFT standards.
  • Articulate key aspects of architecture and design (e.g., scalability, availability, manageability, robustness, appropriate incorporation of new technology) through models, documentation, and code ; present architectures to executive management, clients, and developer teams
  • Execute projects using various technology solutions.

Professional Skills:

  • Infrastructure Advanced Certification (VMware, Microsoft, RedHat, Cisco, etc.) or hyperscaler Advanced Certification (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform)
  • Experience with Private / hybrid cloud solutions either commercial tools (VMware, BMC, HP, Cisco, Microsoft) or OpenSource (Openstack, Cloudforms, etc.).
  • Strong experience with container technologies (OpenShift ) and related storage
  • Experience with automation and Orchestration of infrastructure operational processes (Ansible, BMC, VMware, Red Hat, Chef, Puppet, etc.).
  • Knowledge of main hypervisors (VMware, Hyper-V) and network virtualization (NSX, etc.)
  • Familiar with main operating systems (Linux and Windows) and middleware (appservers, webservers, databases and others).
  • Experience with Containers (Kubernetes, Docker, etc.)
  • Experienced in technology consulting assignments:
    • Data Center Transformation assessments
    • Definition of Infrastructure Strategies and Roadmap
    • Architecture Design and Implementation of Infrastructure and Automation Solutions.
    • Optimization of compute and storage
    • Migration between Data Centres and/or to Cloud
  • Strong understanding of Service Management principles
  • Developing mechanisms and controls to meet security and audit compliance;
  • Utilizing Zero Trust Architecture, Firewalls, and Load Balancers; and automation tools for monitoring and configuration management.
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