Solution Architect / Consultant - Datacentre

JOB TITLE: SOLUTION ARCHITECT / CONSULTANT - DATACENTRES

JOB TYPE: CONTRACT

JOB LOCATION: THE HAGUE

CONTRACT RATE: EURO 620 PER DAY

CONTRACT LENGTH: 6 MONTHS MIN - WITH EXTENSIONS UP TO 290 EXTRA DAYS

We are currently on the look out for a Solution Architect Consultant for a long term contract role based in a EU institution in the beautiful Dutch City of the Hague- DESCRIPTION

- Work with staff in the Institution's ICT's Architecture and Engineering team to devise a detailed design for a high density computing (HDC) platform for the Institution, based on a number of inputs, for example a risk assessment from G5 Security, power and heat calculations from a test phase, or best practice design considerations.
- Produce and/or review detailed design statement and bill of materials of all non-functional services, such as monitoring, network, software distribution, etc.
- Review and support all the collateral documentation provided by suppliers and/or third party involved in the design of the solution;
- It is envisaged that the solution architect will concentrate solely on the design phase, bringing expertise and critical focus to the production of the deliverables.
- The key outputs of the design phase will be one or more detailed design documents containing a series of bills of material that will form the basis of the procurement and implementation phases.
- Interact with Project Management, Requirements, ICT and Information Security, and - if required - in meetings with stakeholders;

QUALIFICATIONS

- Bachelor Degree in IT or relevant field after secondary school
- Minimum 7 years of experience in Design, Deployment and Operation of IT Systems in Data Centres (with focus on Tier 3 and 4)
- Demonstrable record of minimum 2 projects within last 5 years of having turned Requirements into a Solution Blueprint and Detailed Design in the context of data centre and high performance computing (HPS) solutions
- Demonstrable record of minimum 5 years of working in the field of data centre solutions with focus on integration aspects (e.g multiple datacentre network integration, monitoring system integration etc)
- Experience of minimum 2 years in conducting market analysis and product selection activities
- Knowledge of data centre concepts, including liquid immersion cooling technologies and systems
- Knowledge of enterprise scale IT Architecture
- Desirable knowledge of Windows 2012 (or later) and/or RedHat Linux v7 and related IT operational support requirements
- Desirable knowledge of high density computing (e.g HPC workload management design, best practice HPC network topologies, etc)
- Very good written and spoken English (B2 or higher) is required