Infrastructure Consultant

Type of Assignment: Contract, full time

Length of Assignment: 6 - 12 months

Job Description:

- Advanced knowledge and understanding of IT Architecture governance models.
- Advanced knowledge of the role, responsibilities and deliverables of IT Architecture in large enterprises.
- Strong working knowledge of networking and security technologies.
- Strong working knowledge of large scale data protection systems.
- Working knowledge of database management systems and Middleware.
- Advanced knowledge of architecture and design of & fault tolerant systems.
- Strong working knowledge of site recovery architectures and designs.
- Advanced knowledge of the principles of architecture and design of large computing clusters and farms.
- Advanced knowledge in distributed computing architectures and designs for scalability, availability and resilience.
- Strong working knowledge of computing as a service and cloud based services - IaaS, PaaS, SaaS.
- Advanced knowledge of ITIL & COBIT practices.
- Advanced knowledge of TOGAF.

Mandatory Qualifications:

- 7+ years of recent related experience in a large, complex organization including experience with all infrastructure layers (server, storage, network, applications and virtualization technologies)
- A solid understanding of Active Directory, OU, GPO, PKI, FIM and security for design and deployment in a large multi forest environment
- Previous experience with large AD consolidation and migration projects is desirable.
- Advanced knowledge of the theory and principles of computing.
- Experience in the architecture/design of complete systems including compute, storage, networking and security infrastructures is required.
- Experience in mission critical 24x7 environments is required.
- Full technology life cycle experience is required.
- Advanced knowledge of x64 blade server hardware from enterprise class vendors.
- Strong working knowledge of mid and high end RISC Servers.
- Advanced knowledge of x64 server virtualization technologies
- Advanced knowledge of at least one Unix/Linux variant and working knowledge in another operating system.
- Strong working knowledge of MS Windows.
- Advanced knowledge of large scale storage management systems with both file and block level access.
- Advanced knowledge in storage networks and connectivity including FC, iSCSI, FCoE.
- Advanced knowledge of storage array based copy services like replication, mirroring and snapshots.

Desirable Qualifications:

- Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or a related study or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience.
- Strong communication and leadership skills.
- Comfortable to communicate and present to peers and all levels of management.
- Strong analytical, problem solving and decision making skills.
- Able to understand, analyze and evaluate new concepts, products and technologies.
- Comfortable working with less well-defined problems by making assumptions and presenting alternative solutions.