Technology Infrastructure Services Architect m/f

Our Client is looking for areally 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 atleast 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
- Excellent project management skills
- Deep understanding of DC operations and ability to define SLA's, handle sudden change requests, handle rollback requirements etc.
- Excellent ability to handle vendors especially non IT related vendors
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills to effectively present findings and reports at the local and senior business management level
- 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.

Project Langauge is German + English.