CloudInfrastructure Architect

Title:: Cloud/Infrastructure Architect

Location:: Bothell WA/Frisco Texas (onsite)

Type:: Contract

Minimum 15 Years experience

Responsibilities

The Senior Infrastructure Architect will gain organizational alignment for all highlevel infrastructure plans related to but not limited to Private Cloud Servers Virtualization and Storage; and initiate and participate in projects to evaluate technologies and methods for implementing these plans

Responsible for designing scalable and adaptive hardware solutions that address business needs and satisfy operational needs within the Enterprise standards

Create standardized visual design diagrams of logical infrastructure including platform storage and networking information

Participate in technical architecture discussions to determine the mostappropriate scalable model taking into consideration high availability failover disaster recovery and cost

Actively participate in project support and development initiatives designing solutions to optimally address current and future business requirements and infrastructure plans

Qualifications

5 years related work experience working with infrastructure technologies support setup monitoring and performance testing

A minimum of 5 years in an Infrastructure Architect role in developing infrastructure design solutions covering network server database application and reporting domains

Ability to translate disparate business strategies into comprehensive pragmatic technology strategies and execution plans (roadmaps) to satisfy business strategy

Ability to design and deliver solutions that factor in system performance usability quality crosssystem interdependencies scalability while accounting for development and maintenance costs

Broad technical expertise with the software and hardware components of modern computing environments including a deep knowledge and understanding of information technology approaches applications architectures tools and methodologies as well as a broadbased background in a wide variety of technology platforms

Has depth and breadth of expertise in multiple related disciplines such as Windows Operating systems Unix Operating Systems (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) server storage network security virtualization and cloud technologies

Demonstrated ability in evaluating and recommending technologies as part of an overall strategic plan including establishing priorities developing longrange plans and managing strategically

Strong communication skills (written / verbal) with varied audiences

Experience modeling asis and tobe architectures based on business requirements

Solid grasp of the ITIL framework

Experience with researching/implementing Cloud Based solutions

Experience explaining difficult concepts to decision makers to help shape technology strategy

Detailed design knowledge of hardware networking database and applications in a large data center scenario

Active/Active and Disaster Recovery design experience