Infrastructure Architect – Lead Full Time

P2 Consulting

Role

• Analyze infrastructure solutions
• Provide infrastructure analysis services to internal stakeholders
• 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.
• Create architectural standards
• Rationalise Servers and infrastructure to optimise performance and minimise maintenance and licencing costs.
• Interview technical teams to gather relevant information to facilitate architectural requirements definitions
• Establish, explain, and validate the solution-testing criteria for projects
• Design services in the area of technology solutions, operations architecture and IFGL standards.
• Develop solution architectures that promote a clear, consistent business vision
• Define group data, application and network security standards
• Conduct analysis of alternative architectures and define a solution’s cost-of-ownership
• Articulate key aspects of architecture and design (eg, scalability, availability, manageability, robustness, appropriate incorporation of new technology) through models, documentation, and code; present architectures to executive management, clients, and developer teams
• Assist projects with implementing solutions.

Knowledge and Experience

• Technical Bachelor’s degree or equivalent
• Minimum of 5 years of experience of working in IT infrastructure engineering/architecture
• Strong experience with On-Prem/Private Cloud Infrastructure services.
• Responsible for the creation of a well-informed cloud strategy and administer the adaption process
• Evaluation of cloud applications, hardware, and software on an ongoing basis
• Develop and organize cloud systems and work closely with IT security to monitor the company’s cloud privacy
• At least 1 Infrastructure Advanced Certification (VMware, Microsoft, RedHat, Cisco, etc.) or hyperscaler Advanced Certification (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Experience with Private/hybrid cloud solutions either commercial tools (VMware, BMC, HP, Cisco, Microsoft) or OpenSource (Openstack, Cloudforms, etc.).
• 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:

Familiar with Public Cloud services (AWS, Microsoft Azure). Experience in DevOps around Continuous Integration & Delivery Team player with strong analytical skills and the ability to understand and resolve complex problems. Excellent written and oral communication skills with ability to clearly communicate ideas and results to client and company supervisors.Data Center Transformation assessments Infrastructure that supports big data Definition of Infrastructure Strategies and Roadmap Architecture Design and Implementation of Infrastructure and Automation Solutions.

YOU WILL BE

Joining one of the fastest growing consultancies in Europe. We are now 1 400 + people. We’re doers who think. Who can take the client’s strategy, turn it into an actionable blueprint and help the client get it done. Who have deep expertise in operationalising strategy, process design, digitisation, data and analytics, automation, technology and change. But because the whole will always be greater than the sum of the parts, we weave these skills together in different ways to respond to new opportunities and challenges.