Responsible for developing and driving the infrastructure roadmap for enterprise architectural strategies including standardization and modernization of legacy environments, Greenfield datacenter builds, migration and operational optimization strategies in both a pre-sales and post sales capacity
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Analyze the risks, benefits and opportunities associated with architectural strategies, and champion a balanced approach with a focus on operational functionality
Lead, and build consensus among infrastructure teams, in the design and development of infrastructure building blocks for simplicity, availability, performance, integrity, stability and scalability of global enterprise systems
Lead, guide, coach and mentor peers on design standards, implementation strategies and best practices
Provide expertise and leadership in problem solving, root cause analysis during systems outages, and championing a methodological approach to troubleshooting
Engage with management, infrastructure peers, business and project stakeholders to understand system requirements and advise stakeholders on options, risks, business impacts and cost-benefits
Communicate with stakeholders at all levels to inform them of architecture strategies and roadmaps
Participate in the governance of projects or initiatives to close the gaps between current and future-state architectures
Work with the infrastructure engineering teams to evolve and mature corporate/enterprise IT infrastructure
Required Qualifications:
Exceptional communication skills – able to speak to large audiences, top executives, business and technical leaders. Able to adapt vocabulary and style for each situation; able to represent complex ideas with effective documents and visuals and to adapt presentations to the expectations and background of the audience
Extensive collaboration and stakeholder management skills - able to work effectively with others on common tasks; build rapport, gain support, instill confidence, take actions which respect the needs and contributions of others; find common ground; negotiate win-win solutions; and share credit with others; all while achieving the objectives of both the team and stakeholders
Experience with onshore/offshore teaming model
In-depth technical knowledge in at least two of the following areas and awareness of others:
enterprise architecture frameworks, methods, and tools
network and security technologies
server hardware and virtualization technologies
cloud technologies
database server infrastructure technologies
disaster recovery
high availability infrastructure designs and methodologies
systems monitoring, capacity planning and performance tuning
Education and Certifications:
Minimum of 10 years experience in IT to include lead and senior roles
Five years Infrastructure Consulting experience
Technical certifications preferred (Cisco, Red Hat, VMware, EMC, Microsoft, IBM etc.)
Bachelor's degree in computer science, business, information systems or related discipline or demonstrated 15+ years work experience.
Other Requirements/Skills:
Advanced communications skills both written and verbal
Exceptional decision making and problem solving skills
Exceptional personal time management, planning and organizational skills
Ability to travel up to 100%, possibly internationally
Home office setup (network, phone, etc.)
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