Infrastructure Architect- German Speaking is Must

POSITION: Infrastructure Architect

JOB TYPE: Contract

JOB DESCRIPTION:

SKILLS: WINTEL,VMWARE AND EXCHANGE ALONG WITH SAN ATTACHED STORAGE

- Hands on experience in delivering high value System Integration projects.
- Ability to understand and design the business resilience and data center strategies for customers across technology.
- Deep understanding about the buildup of a Data center. Should have been part of at least a couple of Data center builds.
- Ability to perform independently consulting assessment reviews and assisting client organization with development, execution and testing of overall solution.
- Detail and high level designing experience across multiple technologies.
- Intimate knowledge and understanding of the methods used in performing risk analysis and business impact analyses
- Ability to compartmentalize (or normalize) CAPEX (Capital Expenditure) and OPEX (Operation expenditure) of various projects/programs for presenting data to customer top management
- Deep understanding on various aspects of technology such as;

1. Servers (VMware and Wintel)
2. Exchange 2007/2010.
3. Consolidation and Virtualization
4. Storage and backup
5. Data centre build and implementation
6. Network (LAN and WAN)
7. Disaster Recovery/BCP - Good overall understanding of IT infrastructure design, IT operations, Data center maintenance, Vendor co-ordination, Voice & Data Network setups, Application development and End User computing areas in order to review and assist in the preparation of recovery procedures in these areas
- Ability to calculate DC Power and Cooling requirements based on IT infrastructure design plans
- Deep understanding of DC facility related setups of Fire Prevention, Physical Security Monitoring devices, Access Control setups, Surveillance setups through Audio and Video setups, Electrical build out etc.
- Deep understanding of DC operations and ability to define SLA's, handle sudden change requests, handle rollback requirements etc.
- Strong technical background in one of the core IT Infrastructure areas like Platform/Network/Database (L3 or above)