IT Infrastructure Lead/Architect (for Database, Middleware & AWS)

London  ‐ Onsite
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Description

IT Infrastructure Lead (for Database, Middleware & AWS) - London/Germany.

Contract length likely 12 months+

This role is working for a global, well-known company. A lot of time will be in Germany for this role. You must be flexible around this.

I am looking for IT Infrastructure Lead possessing deep technical skills in systems architecture, Databases, Middleware and AWS cloud. This includes a strong background in Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, SQL/T-SQL, PL/SQL, PowerShell, Ansible, Splunk and Linux/Unix Scripting, backup and recovery, performance tuning, troubleshooting, and data extraction/loading utilities.

The ideal candidate will have excellent customer-facing skills and a passion for educating, training, designing, and building solutions for a diverse and challenging set of business requirements.

As a trusted customer advocate to business, you will help the organisation understand best practices around advanced cloud-based solutions and how to migrate existing workloads to the cloud. The ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of large scale computing solutions and enjoys sharpening their existing technical skills and developing new ones. The ideal candidate will have demonstrated the ability to think strategically about business, create technical definitions around customer objectives in complex situations, develop solution strategies, motivate and mobilize resources, and deliver results. This role will have the opportunity to help shape the next generation of cloud computing and influence the adoption and usage patterns.

RESPONSIBILITIES

  • Participate in technical discussions to ensure solutions are designed for successful deployment.
  • Creating solutions architecture, algorithms, and designs for solutions that scale to the customer's enterprise/global requirements
  • Analyze processing issues and data anomalies to identify solutions
  • Ensure high availability and optimal performance of all databases/services
  • Proactively monitor the database systems to ensure secure services with minimum downtime
  • Responsible for problem escalation to vendors or third party service providers as appropriate
  • Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the field and internal teams.
  • Act as lead in this area of Infrastructure and related technologies and contribute to the development of future services
  • Assist cross functional teams in troubleshooting and problem identification
  • Evaluate and analyse systems, performance, issues and metrics in order to provide recommendations for service improvements
  • Author or contribute to standard building blocks, documentation, business cases and presentations
  • Have a business acumen and an ability to work in an outsourced environment.

MAIN QUALIFICATIONS

  • Demonstrated experience in architecting, deploying and management of solutions. Past experience working directly in implementations is highly desirable.
  • Experience across IaaS, AWS Cloud, Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, SQL/T-SQL, PL/SQL
  • 10+ years of IT development or implementation/consulting experience in the software or infrastructure industries and an intermediate understanding of applications, server technology, networking and security.
  • Strong verbal and written communications skills. Past experience writing and publishing technical white papers.
  • The successful candidate will have spent at least 5 years of their career in customer facing roles with a proven record of earning trust as well as effective collaborations across multiple internal organizations and in interactions with partner and customers.

DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS

  • Experience migrating or transforming customer solutions to the cloud.
  • Familiarity with common enterprise solutions (ie, Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, VMWare, PLM, HPC etc.)
  • Experience with other cloud platform including AWS, Azure or Google Compute Platform is a plus.
  • Experience with Infrastructure Automated Deployment models preferably leveraging CI/CD supported by DevOps teams
  • Experience with deployment of Splunk as a security and operational monitoring tool
Start date
ASAP
Duration
3months+ rolling
(extension possible)
From
Optima IT Recruitment
Published at
17.10.2018
Project ID:
1650452
Contract type
Freelance
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