Infrastructure Architect/Wintel/Vmware/Exchange/Data Center

Infrastructure Architect/Wintel/VMware/Exchange 2007/2010

Our Client is looking for an experienced Technology Infrastructure Services Architect with 5-10 years experience with the following skills:

-Hands on experience in delivering high value System Integration projects.
-Ability to understand and design the business resilience and data centre 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 Capital Expenditure and 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
-Experience in maturing independent programs and delivering them, independently.
-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.
-Knowledge on Structured cabling design and implementation
-Ability to plan and execute large desktop rollout activities
-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
-Knowledge of Wintel, VMware and Exchange along with SAN attached storage is necessary.