Urgent requirement of Infrastructure Architect @ 100% Remote

Job Title: Infrastructure Architect

Locations: 100% Remote

Type of hire: Fulltime

Job Description

This role will be responsible for designing and implementing new workloads and processes in Sompo’s public cloud environments, improving process efficiencies where possible. This role will be responsible for developing, documenting, maintaining, supporting, and optimizing automation workflows. Subject matter expertise is required in Microsoft PowerShell/Azure Cloud Shell scripting.

Role Responsibilities

• Work in conjunction with enterprise architect on design, strategy, and standards; documents and publishes appropriate infrastructure architecture principles and standards, position papers, blueprints, best practices, patterns, and frameworks
• Set strategic direction for various infrastructure technologies such as public cloud, directory services, collaboration services, network, storage, server, database and security best practices
• Promotion of shared infrastructure and applications to reduce costs and improve information flows. Ensure that projects do not duplicate functionality or diverge from each other and business and IT strategies.
• Serve as level-4 escalation point for operations team and assist with problem resolution and root cause analysis as needed
• Plans for life and refresh cycles. Ensures that architected solutions work in line with application, network, desktop, server, storage, etc.
• Develops and monitors technology architecture and technology vision; determines current and future enterprise infrastructure needs
• Ensures that installations and upgrades are done in accordance with established policies, procedures, and license agreements
• Identifies, implements, and monitors best practices for infrastructure technology architecture
• Reviews software requirements and designs architecture for high availability and disaster recovery as per business requirements
  
  

Technical Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of architecture-related experience, at least 3 of which needs to be working as an architect
• Experience in IT Consulting is preferred
• Ability to work with and lead Infrastructure and DevOps teams towards IT infrastructure solutions
• Expert knowledge of standard infrastructure components such as Windows-based servers, enterprise network components, public cloud Infrastructure/PaaS technologies, Microsoft Exchange/Office 365, Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft SQL Server, Server Virtualization, Enterprise SAN Storage
  
  

Cloud certification in AWS, Azure or Google Cloud

General Qualifications

• Excellent written and oral communications
• Ability to work with and present solution ideas to C-level executives
• Demonstrated history of enterprise application Infrastructure design & several years’ experience creating enterprise Infrastructure architectures and solutions
• Experience in leading projects
• Experience with merger and acquisition IT Infrastructure planning
• Analytical skills and ability to see the big picture
• High degree of curiosity about new technologies
• Negotiation and persuasion skills
  
  

COMPETENCY PROFICIENCY (SCALE 1-5)

Skill Proficiency Level

Skill Proficiency Level

Accuracy/Attention to Detail 5 Powershell/JSON/REST API Scripting 3

Communications – Written 4 Windows Server Administration 4

Initiative 4 SQL Server Administration 3

Teamwork 4 x

Problem solving and analytical skills 5 x

Education Requirements

• A degree in Information Technology is desirable.