Infrastructure Architect

ROLE TITLE:

• Seeking
  Sr. Person who has the ability to take full ownership of the project and knows what works, what does not works for the Project.

• Candidate must be V strong in Infrastructure side for eg – who can prepare proposals, who can design Implementations, and all sorts of Deployment related to Infrastructure projects.
• Person needs to be
  primarily focused on Public Cloud design i.e. (a candidate needs to be the protagonist in
  minimum 2 Public clouds i.e. (Azure and Google Cloud Platform).
• Must have
  solid experience in “managing Large Data Centre” environment.
• Candidate
  coming from Insurance background i.e. 2-3 years of experience is MUST i.e. 1’st preference will be given to candidates who have INSURANCE experience.
• Candidate must be proficient and Strong understanding of Project Mgt concepts, Project Scope, Determining timelines i.e.
  This role is NOT just a pure Technical Role. Having said that
  – this role requires experience/ability to identify Risk Mitigation.
• Selected Person will be SPOC for project Lifecycle.

• Must be solid with Microsoft Technologies.
• Since this is a Sr. level role,
  1’st preference will be given to a candidate who has an Architect level of Certificationsi.e. AZURE OR AWS OR Google Cloud Platform (
  At least 1 certification is MUST)
• Experience in IT Consulting is preferred.

• 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 a level-4 escalation point for the 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 the 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

• 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 the 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

• 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