DC Cloud SME - Ansible

Summary: The DC Cloud SME - Ansible role involves collaborating with enterprise architects to design and implement infrastructure architecture principles and standards. The position requires strategic oversight of various infrastructure technologies and serves as a key escalation point for operational issues. Candidates should possess extensive experience in architecture, particularly within the financial services sector, and demonstrate strong leadership capabilities in IT infrastructure solutions. This is a remote contract position with a focus on cloud technologies and best practices in infrastructure management.

Key Responsibilities:

• Work in conjunction with enterprise architect on design, strategy, and standards; documents and publishes appropriate infrastructure architecture principles and standards, position papers, blueprints, best practices, patterns, and frameworks
• Set strategic direction for various infrastructure technologies such as public cloud, directory services, collaboration services, network, storage, server, database and security best practices
• Promotion of shared infrastructure and applications to reduce costs and improve information flows. Ensure that projects do not duplicate functionality or diverge from each other and business and IT strategies.
• Serve as level-4 escalation point for operations team and assist with problem resolution and root cause analysis as needed
• Plans for life and refresh cycles. Ensures that architected solutions work in line with application, network, desktop, server, storage, etc.
• Develops and monitors technology architecture and technology vision; determines current and future enterprise infrastructure needs
• Ensures that installations and upgrades are done in accordance with established policies, procedures, and license agreements
• Identifies, implements, and monitors best practices for infrastructure technology architecture
• Reviews software requirements and designs architecture for high availability and disaster recovery as per business requirements

Key Skills:

• Minimum 5 years of architecture-related experience, at least 3 of which needs to be working as an architect
• Minimum 3 years of recent experience in financial services industry
• Experience in IT Consulting is preferred
• Ability to work with and lead Infrastructure and DevOps teams towards IT infrastructure solutions
• Expert knowledge of standard infrastructure components such as Windows-based servers, enterprise network components, public cloud Infrastructure/PaaS technologies, Microsoft Exchange/Office 365, Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft SQL Server, Server Virtualization, Enterprise SAN Storage
• Cloud certification in AWS, Azure or Google Cloud
• Excellent written and oral communications
• Must be proficient in English
• Ability to work with and present solution ideas to C-level executives
• Demonstrated history of enterprise application Infrastructure design & several years' experience creating enterprise Infrastructure architectures and solutions
• Experience in leading projects
• Experience with merger and acquisition IT Infrastructure planning
• Analytical skills and ability to see the big picture
• High degree of curiosity about new technologies
• Negotiation and persuasion skills

Salary (Rate): undetermined

City: undetermined

Country: USA

Working Arrangements: remote

IR35 Status: outside IR35

Seniority Level: undetermined

Industry: IT