Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Job Description

• Creates cloud and infrastructure strategy – Responsible for creation of hybrid cloud strategy for all existing and new IaaS, PaaS, SaaS offerings and existing on-premises applications.
• Provides recommendations and sets the vision - Provides recommendations on the technology and design of compute, storage, network and telecom infrastructure, and cloud infrastructure services, including lifecycle replacement, future growth and redundancy
• Strategic thinking – Thinks innovatively and long-term about our industry and not just our company. Creates plans to support the current and future operating model of the company
• Leads implementations – Leads deployment and configuration of new could services and helps ongoing improvement of existing infrastructure and security systems including, but not limited to compute, storage, virtualization, networking and telecommunications
• Acts decisively – Creates the climate for decision-making and acts decisively
• Driving performance – Anticipates and removes barriers, enabling and inspiring teams to deliver and perform, helps deliver infrastructure solutions
• Works collaboratively – Is courageous in identifying and addressing issues that may inhibit effective cross-functional collaboration
• Passion for serving business needs – Focused on current and future needs of business customers across the whole of the company
• Develops people – Invested in the long-term development of people by establishing challenging development opportunities aimed at helping people grow
• Ability to influence - Demonstrated ability to work effectively with all levels of the organization
• Define principles to guide infrastructure solution decisions
• Develop high-availability and backup methodologies which support disaster recovery and business continuity planning
• Consult with application development projects to harmonize infrastructure with EA, and identify when it is necessary to modify the infrastructure systems to accommodate project needs
• Ensure that all individual infrastructure solutions, designs and analysis are documented in a structured fashion and stored in common place.
• Coordinate with enterprise business, information and technology architects
• Continuously update knowledge on infrastructure and cloud technology, and advancements and best practices
• Provide meaningful communication of alternative solutions and appropriateness of solution selected
• Gather information internally and externally, evaluate alternatives, and propose best practices to be used
• Perform proof-of-concepts and develop prototypes to make informed architectural decisions

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