Description
Aggressively investing in state of the art software and infrastructure management technologies that have the ability to significantly transform the industries in which organisations operate. This Technology Infrastructure and Compliance (TIC) organization provides technology services to internal and external clients across the globe! The business is growing rapidly and for this they have a need of a Senior Virtualization Architect to plan and design a world-class server and data center environment. This role is a thought-leader position responsible for designing Server, DataCenter, and virtualization architecture standards nationally. This leader will design architecture to improve value, performance, reliability, and scalability as well as providing a robust disaster recovery infrastructure. The leader will work with data center providers, hardware and software partners, and internal technology organization to understand current state and define their future architecture and capabilities. Create strategies, methodologies, and tools to increase their capabilities and measure their progress. Work with their product development team to create a platform on which to deliver products nationally. Recommends improvements to eliminate single points of failure and ensure proper implementation through a matrixed implementation team consisting of experienced engineers.
Responsibilities:
- Provide senior-level strategies for technology components including operating systems, server/desktop technologies, virtualization, storage technologies, database, telephony/CTI, and network connectivity
- Maintain awareness of standards, guidelines, and industry trends
- Develop and document reference architectures leveraging existing and emerging technology components and services. Ensure reference architecture delivers on business requirements and create cost models
- Incorporate standards and practices established by Enterprise Architecture group into reference architectures
- Develop and maintain IT technology roadmaps
- Serve as Tier 4 support, the last point of escalation for a technical problem
- Will collaborate with Product Management and bring a process discipline to a 24x7x365 cloud service operation to achieve highest customer satisfaction for both internal and external customers
- Develop, lead, and measure operational excellence and continuous IT improvements. Must be well versed in ITIL, High Availability, Service Delivery, and global Matrix management
- Understands systems monitoring and tool sets, knows how and what tools to deploy to improve operational performance and efficiency
- Successfully plan and performs data center failover, high availability failover, and disaster recovery tests on a regular basis for all data centers world wide
- Design solutions for 2,000+ users
Qualifications:
- 10-15 years of working technology experience
- 8 years of experience as technology lead for large corporation, OR 5 years of experience in Solution Architecture role
- Ability to take a highly conceptual business need and translate it into a technical structure that can be concretely implemented
- Proven ability to effectively communicate complex ideas, issues, concepts and solutions to all levels of the organization, including Executive leadership and the business
- Ability to understand business problems and translate these problems into automated and non-automated solutions
- Familiarity with technologies designed to make technology components highly available and disaster ready
- Ability to mitigate complex issues in a Professional and timely manner
- Ability to work independently while keeping Manager informed
- Citrix and other VDI technologies
- Cloud Technologies, VMware, and data center consolidation
- Multiple hardware platforms, including IBM Mainframe and iSeries, Oracle/Sun, Dell Servers, UCS, EMC storage
Huntress Group does not discriminate on the grounds of age, race, gender, disability, creed or sexual orientation and complies with all relevant legislation. PLEASE NOTE: You should make yourself aware of how immigration laws apply to your situation before applying for any jobs. We are acting as a Recruitment Business in relation to this role.