Infrastructure Specialist/Architect in Eindhoven, Netherlands

For my client, I am looking for an Infrastructure specialist/architect, long contract, until March 2018. If you are interested, than please send your updated CV in word in English or Dutch.

INFRASTRUCTURE SPECIALIST/ARCHITECT IN EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDS

Startdatum: as soon as possible

End date: 01-03-2018

Tarief: market rate

Language: Dutch preferable (if the candidate does not speak Dutch, it should have diverse European experience with exposure to many cultures)

Department profile

The software engineering infrastructure (SEI) group is responsible for the software development environment. This environment consists of an integrated development, build, test and release environment and must be capable to support the life cycle and configuration management of the product software.

The environment is developed and maintained in close cooperation with the software development community. Key challenge is on one hand to have a state of the art environment to support the newest product development and on the other hand safeguard the stability and reliability and long term support for the growing installed product base at our customers.

Context

We produce specific software as part of its solutions and products for its customers. This software is proprietary and part of the intellectual property. Currently the company employs over 1000 software developers and this number is still growing. These software developers rely on the software development environment to be able to perform their jobs.

The software development environment is now considered as a Mission Critical Service for which proper actions need to be taken to ensure business continuity in the event of a substantial calamity within the current datacenter (Availability Zone A). A Disaster Recovery program has been launched to allow service continuation for developing and delivering software during substantial calamities at datacenter level with minimal downtime by. This program will build a full software development environment in a new datacenter for failover (Availability Zone B).

In order to realize availability zone B, we are looking for an infrastructure specialist to strengthen the project team. Assigment exist out of the following tasks extend current infrastructure design and implement according this design the SEI infrastructure. The Infrastructure specialist works closely with the Generic IT department, IT Architect, IT infrastructure Support, the project team and project management.

Competence

Candidate is well acquainted with software development.

Further requirements on candidate:

o HBO+ or Academic level education

o Minimal 5-10 years of relevant work experience

o Relevant experience and proven experience in large technical complicated development environments

o Thorough understanding and practical experience with:

o Solaris and/or Linux Infrastructure

o Configuration Management with Puppet

o Virtualizations techniques: Linux Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization or Solaris LDOM's

o Knowledge regarding management of large server and VDI environments

o Base Knowledge of storage, network and database solutions

o Strong verbal and written communication skills (English)

o Strong documenting capabilities

o Able to handle issues from demanding customers in a professional way.

o Shows initiative and problem solving attitude.

o Pragmatic, practical, flexible (occasional evening or weekend work) and committed to quality.

During the project the Infrastructure specialist will work within complex application landscapes with multiple programming languages (eg Java, C++, Perl and Unix), interfaces and components per application.

The candidate has a hands-on mindset, strong customer- and problem solving orientation, shows fast results, and has demonstrated good communication skills, especially in an international IT organization. To achieve the project goals the candidate is able to liaise directly with all stakeholders. The candidate has a clear focus on results.

Deliverables and responsibilities of the Infrastructure specialist/architect

Define requirements and create low-level designs

According to design, delivery of SEI infrastructure

Coordinate between SEI and operations

Determine a test strategy for existing applications and services