Senior Infrastructure Architect

Taylor, AZ - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is an American organization that operates Texass electrical grid the Texas Interconnection which supplies power to more than 25 million Texas customers and represents 90 percent of the states electric load. Our client is the first independent system operator (ISO) in the United States and one of nine ISOs in North America. Our client works with the Texas Reliability Entity (TRE) one of eight regional entities within the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) that coordinate to improve reliability of the bulk power grid. Our client is a membership-based 501(c) nonprofit corporation and its members include consumers electric cooperatives generators power marketers retail electric providers investor-owned electric utilities (transmission and distribution providers) and municipally owned electric utilities.

Job Title: Senior Infrastructure Architect

Location: Taylor TX 76574

Duration: 12 Months

Job Type: Temporary Assignment

Work Type: Remote

Job Description:

The client is seeking an experienced Senior Infrastructure Architect with hands-on experience Architecting and designing IT infrastructure for on-prem environments.
Designs Develops and Operates Infrastructure solutions following operating procedures and Architecture principles.
Works closely with internal technical teams to design prototype develop and maintain complex applications.
Performs proof of concepts to evaluate and prove out non-functional requirements and options.
Uses toolsets that adhere to the frameworks of the technical stack complying with the organizations standards.
Provides mentorship and technical guidance to transition work to other operational teams.

DUTIES:

Develop and design IT Infrastructure Compute and Storage components
Performs system integration capacity management and performance monitoring.
Continuously automates processes during development and operations
Develops prototypes to prove out designs and delivery patterns
Fosters collaboration with cross-functional teams including Development Operations Compliance Security etc.
Understands and applies principles theories and concepts related to the profession and the clients culture.
Provides mentoring and guidance to other team members

ADDITIONAL DUTIES:

Conveys team goals effectively through strong written and verbal communication skills
Ability to execute end-to-end testing for various non-functional requirements
Has the ability to resolve design and development issues in creative and effective ways
Researches evaluates and incorporates new technology and tools to enhance the product development and platform operations
Gives advice and recommendations to management based on experience
Expands technical proficiency in key technical areas

EXPERIENCE

Requires minimum 8 years related work experience in excess of degree requirements

Desired Skills

Requires strong experience with On-Prem / Private Cloud Infrastructure services including converged and hyperconverged infrastructure
Requires strong knowledge of VMWare virtualization components including NSX and VRealize. Experience at the Sr. Storage Administrator/Engineer level is preferred.
Requires strong knowledge working with storage (VxBlock VxRail Netapp VSAN) and networking (Cisco) appliances. Experience at the Senior Virtualization Administrator/Engineer level is preferred.
Preferred Experience with Containers (Kubernetes Docker etc.) and Public Cloud IaaS (Azure)
Preferred Experience with automation and Orchestration of infrastructure operational processes (Ansible Terraform etc.)
Requires familiarity with main operating systems (Linux and Windows) and middleware (appservers webservers databases and others).
Preferred basic knowledge of development and scripting
Preferred experienced with technology projects like Data Transformation assessments Infrastructure strategies and roadmaps Data Center refreshes
Required previous experience delivering multiple end-to-end solutions and has provided oversight for these solutions through the entire lifecycle inception planning design implementation operational turnover patch/maintenance decommissioning

EDUCATION

Bachelors Degree: Computer Science or related field (Required)
or a combination of education and experience that provides equivalent knowledge to a major in such fields is required

TekWissen Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.

Overview: TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Our client is an American organization that operates Texass electrical grid the Texas Interconnection which supplies power to more ...