Infrastructure Architect

Description

A global telecommunications consultancy are currently looking for an Infrastructure Architect to work on site with an end client based in Amsterdam.
This role is a 6-month rolling contract with long term opportunities. The rate is c€550 per day and expenses will be covered for applicants based throughout wider Europe.
Main responsibilities:

• Create and update Data Centre infrastructure architecture and design documents- applicable to new application/server builds, and to expansion of existing capacity
• Serve as a technical Subject Matter Expert (SME) in Data Centre infrastructure technologies - relating to Servers, virtualization, storage, cloud technology and logical network configurations.
• Gather technical and business requirements from other technology units and reflect into the design documentation
• Organise design reviews with delivery and ops teams; capture and implement recommendations; gain acceptance & sign-off.
• Engage with projects to ascertain infrastructure requirements and to provide clear documentation/designs.
• Review project documentation/designs to ensure they adhere to guidelines.
• Acting as the lead advocate, expert adviser, and communicator for the portfolio delivery service.
• Handle difficult stakeholders, hold difficult conversations and make difficult decisions

Experience required:

• Recent Industry qualifications or certifications (eg Microsoft, AWS, RedHat or VMware).
• 5 years previous experience in infrastructure architecture and solution design,
• 5 years in Data Centre design
• Server hardware (x86 required, SPARC desirable)
• Server virtualization (VMware, LDOMs, zones, containers)
• Storage knowledge (NAS, SAN, RAID concepts, file storage, block storage)
• Foundation services (automation, monitoring, asset management, security)
• Multi-tenancy concepts (Cisco ACI, Juniper Contrail, VMware NSX)
• Cloud technologies (Azure, AWS, GDC)
• 5 years in design of server, storage and databases.
• Technical skills in modern data center technologies.
• A solid background in networking including concepts of SDN, IPv4, IPv6, VLANs, subnets, NTP, DMZs
• Experience with databases (eg Oracle, SQL Server) in a High Availability configuration.
• Security concepts, Firewalls, compliancy and ISO .
• Experience of analysing, assessing and resolving complex technology requirements, problems and issues.

If this sounds like an ideal role for you then please apply with an updated CV ASAP or feel free to get in touch for a more in-depth discussion on the role.