Job Description :
Experienced in public and private/internal cloud technologies
Architectural experienced on virtualization platform(s) including deployment patterns and topologies – VMware, KVM, OpenStack etc. (knowledge of one virtualization platform is required)
Working knowledge of infrastructure automation and orchestration is a must
Must have experience with Storage technologies and enterprise deployment pattern
Able to demonstrate abilities to create/reengineer integration solutions (architectures) with other enterprise standard technologies
Lead in risk assessment, identifying technology challenges and recommend architectures
Working knowledge of Solaris and Linux is a must.
Basic knowledge of networking and other network appliances i.e. Load balancer is required ? Prior experience of development and n-tier architecture would be very helpful.
Assist in formulating a standard way of gathering detailed information on the application and infrastructure requirements of current and future projects –
Establish recommendations and guidelines for the development, test, operations and application support environments.
Provide information needed to assess the risk of production deployment of a business critical application: installation and configuration readiness, performance and scalability evaluation, stability and durability evaluation, and best practices procedures.
Assess the processes that will be used to operate, support and maintain the Enterprise implementation(s Refine the deployment process and architecture so that it will easily scale to fit into an enterprise scope.
Needs to be extensible to changing platform requirements or other advancements in the distributed computing model.
Assist in determining Service Level Agreements (SLAs), for immediate needs/deployments, and enterprise SLAs to support ongoing operations, if any.
Other required skills:
Excellent communication skills, strong planning/organization skills a must
Ability to communicate at all levels of senior management as required
Proven ability to build and facilitate relationships at all levels of the organization, both internally and externally
Proven project management skills and the ability to deliver multiple project implementations on time and within budget
Action oriented results-driven leader who has a track record of delivering without excuses
Ability to learn quickly, track record of adopting new technologies and create consensus among various teams will be highly preferred
Must effectively work with customers to ensure there are no surprises throughout the engagement/delivery process
Must build rapport with and gain respect from various technical and business teams in order to execute on project commitments
Capable of working with Sr. Engineers, understand architectural role and proven record of enterprise architecture experience is required