Senior Infrastructure Designer

Senior Infrastructure Designer to develop and facilitate Infrastructure and Platform level designs by evaluating business strategies and requirements collaborating with application solution designers and Ops subject matter experts managing design standards and facilitating integration and security solutions. Responsibilities will also include discovery and documentation of asbuilt endtoend service mappings gap analysis for reliability and availability development of templates and standard reference architectures procurement of Infrastructure components and support for build submissions. The individual will be able to collect and analyze design requirements to provide solutions while mitigating risk with deployment into production networks.

Candidate should have a strong background with modern cloud platforms like fleet technology Anthos GCP AWS Azure enterprise class datacenters LAN/WAN storage virtualization and cloud infrastructure/platform technologies from strategic partners including Dell Cisco EMC NetApp Redhat Oracle Microsoft and Citrix. The candidate will also understand application and data security application and infrastructure fault tolerance and highavailability designs application/service level protocols and communication methods and possess the soft skills necessary to communicate both at the technical and executive level to define budgetary estimates provide cost benefit justifications and provide technical expertise to influence solution designs with crossfunctional team support.

Architect supervise and participate in the implementation of technologies and platforms supporting a complex corporate data and voice infrastructure.
Ensure high availability of enterprise voice and data platforms that support internal employee business functions and external customer contact.
Serve as one of the primary points of contact for telecommunication carriers and service providers and coordinate circuit design provisioning installation and troubleshooting.
Planning and implementing systems and network integrations.
Document the design operation and troubleshooting of technology platforms and procedures.
Prepare project level and/or solution level designs for moderately complex initiatives and solutions.
Define and document architecture capturing and documenting nonfunctional requirements preparing estimates and defining technical solutions to proposals.
Provide technical leadership to project teams to perform design to deployment related activities.
Provide guidance perform reviews prevent and resolve technical issues.
Coordinate with internal teams and stakeholders on solution development that will drive technical change.
Support assigned portfolios as the domains lead go to contact around project pipeline innovation and escalation especially understanding and interpreting business requirements and translating them into architecture designs and technical specifications.
Assess the viability and feasibility of third party solutions to meet business requirements and to advise and influence project sponsors and teams on the technical direction.
Collaborate with colleagues within the domain architecture team to provide technical design guidance that aligns with the enterprise architecture vision and applicable technical standards.
Work independently to evaluate and make strategic decisions that address specific technology design needs and issues within their technology area.
Recommend improvements to existing data application and infrastructure architectures in areas of expertise.
Facilitate or influence changes to product portfolio to improve competitive position and optimal product performance.
Multicloud infrastructure deployment and management experience is a plus.

EDUCATION EXPERIENCE & SKILLS
o Bachelors degree in relevant field and 8years of experience
o Expert level knowledge of GCP Architecture AWS Architecture Azure Networking vRAVDI/IT Infrastructure/ Server/Storage/Back Up infra design and supporting technologies required for the delivery of virtual desktop services.
o Expertise in a Workplace technologies including but not limited to Printing Email Collaboration tools MDM WiFi and Identity management.
o Broad knowledge of data and infrastructure technologies such as SAN VMware Blade and Active Directory.
o Knowledge of architecture frameworks and methods
o Handson experience for SNOW automation and reporting
o Ability to plan prioritize organize schedule and execute assignments.
o Strong analytical skills with strong problemsolving capability
o Excellent interpersonal presentation and communication skills
o Ability to work independently and as a member of a team.
o Ability to lead moderately complex initiatives and solutions.
o Technical certifications a plus