Description
Infrastructure Solution Architect - Broadcast Industry
Hilversum - Netherlands
6 Month Contract
Start ASAP
Competitive Daily Rate
My client, a major broadcast technology provider, is looking to recruit an Infrastructure Solution Architect to join their team in Hilversum - Netherlands. on an initial 6 month contract.
Main Responsibilities and tasks
The role has responsibility for building relationships with a diverse set of stakeholders to gather requirements for new projects and services within the Infrastructure domain. Once requirements are understood the Infrastructure Design and Integration team are responsible for working with appropriate Subject Matter Experts to translate the requirements into a high level Infrastructure design and associated Bill of Materials that is aligned to business wide best practice.
- Ensure end to end completeness of Infrastructure Technical Design, including NFRs validated and realised.
- Ensure adherence to standards and influence solutions towards the Infrastructure future state model.
- Keeping up to date with business road maps, technology road maps and feeding wider business requirements into central infrastructure and engineering teams.
- Analysis of service related trends and recommendation of technology change or improvements that better fit business needs.
- Contribution to Infrastructure Service Catalogue
Experience and Skills Required
- A proven and recent background within the Broadcast/Media Industry within an Infrastructure Architecture or similar position
- Fluent in both Dutch and English (Written and Verbal)
- Strong background in Infrastructure Architecture across a broad range of technologies including but not limited to the following.
- Datacentre, Server and network infrastructure
- Virtualisation technologies
- Enterprise Storage Solutions (SAN, NAS, File store).
- Knowledge of Enterprise Security Infrastructure (Antivirus, Patching, Firewalls, IPS/IDS, Certificates, Secure file transfer, Active Directory)
- Experience of Data Centre migrations, technology re-platforming, technology upgrade projects
- Has experience in security, performance tuning, capacity planning, resilience and availability across heterogeneous architectures.
- Experience of having worked as part of a Matrix-managed delivery team, ideally as a project/product technical lead, solution manager, or equivalent.
- Excellent visual and verbal communication skills, with experience of successfully influencing others, negotiating effectively and winning over audiences with compelling and persuasive presentations
- The ability to evaluate and solve problems creatively and laterally when needed, using appropriate evidence and data over instinct wherever possible to inform project decisions.
- Excellent attention to detail and a unfaltering desire to deliver exceptional service
- Highly comfortable with web, IT, and new media and broadcast technologies
- Able and willing to challenge the status quo, and to empower others they work with to challenge their own assumptions.
- A positive and resilient character. There are many competing stakeholder interests, so tenacity is required to ensure that an appropriate balance of stakeholder needs is achieved.
If you are interested in this position and have the skills and experience required, please apply online. All successful candidates will be contacted within 1 working day.
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