Infrastructure Architect
Auckland
Permanent
Job Description:
About the Company
Our client works in partnership with their customers to leverage efficiencies and economies of scale to support the goals of improving the outcomes for their customers.
To enable this, they’re helping customers prepare for a rapidly advancing digital future by transforming the information and communications technologies that underpin services in the region.
Their services include Technology Services, Customer Services, Project and Programme Services, Internal Audit, and ICT Transformation.
About the Role
The purpose of this role is to generate Infrastructure Architecture designs that conform to principles, standards and patterns, that align to the strategic direction.
As a part of the Architecture & Design team, you will provide leadership to ensure architectural compliance to projects and programmes.
This role requires experience to oversee and align solutions to fit a changing environment. Deviations from standards are identified with recommended mitigations or solutions. A strong understanding of technical detail is necessary as this role will have accountability to review and sign off designs and documents.
A full spectrum on infrastructure architecture experience (compute, platform, storage, data centre, backup, disaster recovery, network and other), forms part of the wider enterprise architecture for the region enabling the delivery of key strategic business and IT initiatives.
About You
5 years’ experience in architecting and designing for high availability and disaster recovery over multiple geographical locations
Experience in designing across hybrid environments i.e. on-premise and cloud (IaaS/PaaS)
Proven working knowledge of project management processes and methodologies and experience assisting PM's to plan technical tasks and estimate time frames.
Experience in work on large projects with budgets of at least $1 million
Practical experience with technologies across the following areas of infrastructure
Computer Platform, Server Operating Systems, Physical & Virtual
Networking, WAN, LAN, wireless, load balancing, Storage Area Network
Storage, Primary storage, arrays, virtualisation, management, archive and backup.
Identity & Access Management & Provisioning
Identity & Access Management & Provisioning
Workspace, Desktop OS (thick and virtual), productivity suites, client browser, application presentation and mobile.
Management && Monitoring
Capacity management, alerting, monitoring and reporting
Configuration Management, system, backups and network.
Deployment, Server & client deployment