Cloud/Infrastructure Architect
Title:: Cloud/Infrastructure Architect
Location:: Bothell, WA/Frisco, Texas (onsite)
Type:: Contract
Minimum 15+ Years’ experience
Responsibilities
Location:: Bothell, WA/Frisco, Texas (onsite)
Type:: Contract
Minimum 15+ Years’ experience
Responsibilities
- The Senior Infrastructure Architect will gain organizational alignment for all high-level infrastructure plans related to but not limited to, Private Cloud, Servers, Virtualization, and Storage; and initiate and participate in projects to evaluate technologies and methods for implementing these plans
- Responsible for designing scalable and adaptive hardware solutions that address business needs and satisfy operational needs within the Enterprise standards
- Create standardized visual design diagrams of logical infrastructure, including platform, storage, and networking information
- Participate in technical architecture discussions to determine the most-appropriate scalable model, taking into consideration high availability, failover, disaster recovery, and cost
- Actively participate in project, support, and development initiatives designing solutions to optimally address current and future business requirements and infrastructure plans
- 5+ years related work experience working with infrastructure technologies – support, setup, monitoring and performance testing
- A minimum of 5 years in an Infrastructure Architect role in developing infrastructure design solutions covering network, server, database, application, and reporting domains
- Ability to translate disparate business strategies into comprehensive, pragmatic technology strategies and execution plans (roadmaps) to satisfy business strategy
- Ability to design and deliver solutions that factor in system performance, usability, quality, cross-system interdependencies, scalability while accounting for development and maintenance costs
- Broad technical expertise with the software and hardware components of modern computing environments, including a deep knowledge and understanding of information technology approaches, applications, architectures, tools, and methodologies, as well as a broad-based background in a wide variety of technology platforms
- Has depth and breadth of expertise in multiple related disciplines, such as Windows Operating systems, Unix Operating Systems (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), server, storage, network, security, virtualization, and cloud technologies
- Demonstrated ability in evaluating and recommending technologies as part of an overall strategic plan, including establishing priorities, developing long-range plans, and managing strategically
- Strong communication skills (written / verbal) with varied audiences
- Experience modeling as-is and to-be architectures based on business requirements
- Solid grasp of the ITIL framework
- Experience with researching/implementing Cloud Based solutions
- Experience explaining difficult concepts to decision makers to help shape technology strategy
- Detailed design knowledge of hardware, networking, database and applications in a large data center scenario
- Active/Active and Disaster Recovery design experience
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