Who are we looking for
A senior level Hybrid Infrastructure Architect having 1518 years of experience working as Enterprise/Infrastructure architect and go to person for accounts team in reputed company. The Individual should be passionate about technology and would have worked as Architect to end client for short and longterm Infrastructure transformational projects.
Technical Skills:
- 1518 years of experience in architecting designing and consolidating data center infrastructure with expertise in VMware Windows Linux AWS and HPE GL (Good understanding).
- Strong experience in assessing existing data center environments and conducting business workshops to understand the needs and challenges for consolidation and migration to new Colos or cloud platforms like AWS.
- Expertise in designing scalable highly available and secure data center infrastructures using VMware (vSphere vCenter vSAN) AWS and onpremises server platforms (Cisco UCS HP DELL IBM).
- Conducts thorough assessments of current infrastructure identifies gaps and recommends solutions for optimization consolidation and modernization using VMware HPE GL and other relevant technologies.
- Leads the design and planning of data center consolidation strategies ensuring proper integration with cloud platforms (AWS) Active Directory and existing IT systems.
- Collaborates with business stakeholders and technical teams to gather requirements define solutions and design architectures that meet both technical and business objectives.
- Skilled in developing detailed data center migration plans including resource allocation timeline and risk management to ensure smooth transitions to new Colos or cloud environments.
- Expertise in migrating legacy systems to VMwarebased virtualized environments and AWS cloud platforms ensuring seamless application data and infrastructure migration with minimal downtime.
- Works closely with engineers and technical teams providing guidance and mentorship throughout the migration process ensuring adherence to best practices and successful execution.
- Leads business continuity and disaster recovery (DR) solution designs ensuring that recovery objectives (RTO/RPO) are met for both onpremises and cloudbased environments.
- Experienced in integrating and managing identity and access management systems (Active Directory) in both hybrid and fully cloudbased data center architectures.
- Proficient in planning and implementing the consolidation of physical and virtual environments optimizing resource usage and improving performance for businesscritical applications.
- Provides leadership in evaluating and selecting the appropriate technologies (VMware AWS HPE GL etc.) for data center projects ensuring that selected solutions align with the organizations longterm goals.
- Develops and manages the technical documentation for all phases of the data center consolidation including architecture design migration planning and implementation processes.
- Mentors and leads teams of engineers ensuring successful execution of migration tasks problem resolution and continuous improvement of data center operations.
- Works crossfunctionally with network storage and security teams to ensure that all elements of the infrastructure are wellintegrated and meet operational requirements.
- Leads efforts to automate and streamline data center operations using VMware AWS and other tools to reduce manual processes and improve efficiency.
- Coordinate with Citrix/Database/Backup & Storage architects to define the transformation journey planning consolidation design and deployment of Future Infrastructure
Process Skills:
- Help team with critical technical know how
- Strong knowledge on ITIL and worked on incident/change/problem on regular basis.
- Strong in Technical Documentation and design process and standards
- Strong experience in Migration framework and methodologies
Behavioral Skills:
- Must have superior problemsolving skills with extremely high levels of initiative and assertiveness.
- Effectively collaborate with stakeholders Customers and Partners in a Service Delivery environment
- Able to thrive in rapid environment and adopt new technology Fastly.
- Participate in business meetings with various stake holders
- Identify the Gaps and provide documentation / suggestion faced during Execution.
Qualification:
- Bachelors or Masters degree preferably in Computer Science or Information Systems and /or equivalent formal training or work experience.
- 1518 years of relevant experience in DC & Cloud Infrastructure transformations
- Must have the below certifications
- AWS Certified architect
- Windows/Linux Certifications
- VMware certified architect.