Description
Cloud/Infrastructure Solution Architect
You will be responsible for gathering Infrastructure requirements, working with subject matter experts to translate them into effective solution designs and ensuring that the solution implemented meets the defined requirements. A good understanding of the Required Knowledge Areas is required to perform these tasks and to harness the potential of the Cloud.
Responsibilities:
- Ensure end to end completeness of Infrastructure Technical Design, including NFRs validated and realized.
- Ensure adherence to standards and influence solutions towards the Infrastructure future state model towards the Cloud
- Keeping up to date with business road maps, technology road maps and feeding wider business requirements into engineering teams and infrastructure as a whole - cloud & on-premises
- Analysis of service related trends and recommendation of technology change or improvements that better fit business needs.
- Contribution to Infrastructure Service Catalogue
Required Knowledge Areas - Solid cloud experience is required for this role.
Strong background in Infrastructure Architecture with an emphasis on the Cloud technologies like IaaS, PaaS, also across a broad range of other technologies including, but not limited to the following:
- Datacentre, Server and network infrastructure
- Virtualisation technologies
- Enterprise Storage Solutions (SAN, NAS, File, Tape store).
- Knowledge of Enterprise Security Infrastructure (Antivirus, Patching, Firewalls, IPS/IDS, Certificates, Secure file transfer, AAA)
- Experience of Data Centre migrations, technology re-platforming, technology upgrade projects
Requirements:
This role is split into two areas,
50% Technical
50% Communication
Scoping/Solution -
Technical Delivery Coordination -
Person specification -
- Has experience in security, performance tuning, capacity planning, resilience and availability across heterogeneous architectures including Cloud designs.
- 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
- Good communicator
- Speed of delivery, and getting it out there
- Thoughts, ability and expertise for solutions between clouds.