Senior Infrastructure Specialist - Experience with high-& low- Level T

Senior Infrastructure Specialist - Experience with high-& low- level To-Be designs

Location: Eindhoven
Start date: ASAP
End date: 31/12/15, with option to extend
Hours a week: 40

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 clients product software.

Context:
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).

Critical element in this program is seamless failover of the various external interfaces and services which has a dependency to this software development environment. Therefore additional measurements must be taken to allow the continuation of these interfaces/services when running at either availability zone (A/B).

In order to realize the additional measurements for the external interfaces/services, we are looking for an infrastructure specialist to strengthen the project team. The Infrastructure specialists works closely with the IT analyst, key-users of the external interface/service in the business, IT application support, IT service managers, the project team and project management.

DELIVERABLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Analyze impact of existing interfaces/services that uses the software development environment when switching to the second availability zone and give advice/recommendation
- Document for each interface the As-Is situation
- Aligning with key-users and software engineers on new solution setup
- Define requirements and create high-& low- level To-Be designs
- Guarding overall quality delivered by the external interface/service owners

SKILLS:

- Relevant experience and proven experience in large technical complicated development environments
- Experience with high-& low- level To-Be designs
- Thorough understanding and practical experience with:
- Solaris and/or Linux Infrastructure
- Virtualizations techniques: Linux Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization or Solaris LDOM's
- Knowledge regarding management of large server and VDI environments
- Base Knowledge of Storage solutions and databases
- Strong verbal and written communication skills (English)
- Good documenting capabilities
- Able to handle issues from demanding customers in a professional way.
- Shows initiative and problem solving attitude.
- Pragmatic, practical, flexible (occasional evening or weekend work) and committed to quality.
- Well acquainted with software development

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.

Interested?
If you are interested in this opportunity please leave your CV in Word-format and I will contact you.

Riwanna van der Galiën
Candidate Relations Consultant in IT Contracting