Infrastructure Architect

Role: Infrastructure Architect

Location: Houston TX/Chicago IL

Duration: Long Term Contract





Job Description:


The senior solutions engineer serves as the designer for onpremise application infrastructure topology.
They will work closely with teams managing new or existing onpremise applications and their cybersecurity partners to understand and synthesize those applications infrastructure requirements.
The solutions engineer will take those inputs and design an application infrastructure topology based on Uniteds standards and input from other infrastructure engineering teams. Designs can include but are not limited to physical or virtual servers load balancers storage network location etc.
They will then present designs to an architecture review committee for feedback and approval.
After the design is complete the solutions engineer will collaborate with infrastructure engineering and operations teams to have infrastructure components built and configured to the applications requirements before handing everything off. Buildouts are generally managed using workorders in Uniteds service catalog but specialized requirements may be managed on a more adhoc basis with the appropriate teams.


Application Topology Design


Collect requirements from onpremise application teams and security partners for new and changing applications.
Reference United engineering standards to design application infrastructure topologies.
Collaborate with engineering teams to support design.
Design application infrastructure topologies and write their associated design documents.
Present designs to an architecture review committee made up of engineering leads from the infrastructure team.


Infrastructure Build


Submit workorders for buildout of onpremise infrastructure including virtual servers load balancers storage network configurations etc.
Manage the buildout of specialized infrastructure components like dedicated physical servers appliances airport site servers etc.
Communicate progress and status to project managers and application teams


Qualifications


Bachelors degree or equivalent experience.
5 years of experience with application architecture platform engineering network engineering or related field.
Familiarity with the full range of onpremise infrastucture components consumed by applications including networking compute storage load balancing etc.
Experience working in a large enterprise with complex security requirements and enterprise standards.
Organizational skills to manage and prioritize multiple small projects at once.
Comfort and ability to present to a technical audience and graciously collect feedback and constructive criticism.

LOAD BALANCING , NETWORKING