Negotiable
Outside
Remote
USA
Summary: The Infrastructure Transformation Architect role requires a seasoned professional with a minimum of 15 years of experience in IT infrastructure design and implementation. The position focuses on transforming data centers and migrating infrastructure to public and private cloud environments. The architect will be responsible for developing strategies, evaluating technologies, and ensuring seamless migration aligned with business needs. This is a contractor position primarily remote, with a preference for candidates in the CST and EST time zones.
Key Responsibilities:
- Gather application functionality and non-functional requirements to design IT infrastructure solutions.
- Lead data center transformation projects, including environment analysis and migration to cloud infrastructures.
- Develop infrastructure migration strategies and high-level design documents.
- Evaluate technology trends and recommend infrastructure solutions for business services.
- Review and stitch low-level design documents covering compute, storage, backup, databases, networks, and security.
- Ensure appropriate IT practices are in place for infrastructure implementation.
- Maintain strong technical knowledge and hands-on experience with virtualization and Microsoft technologies.
- Communicate effectively with stakeholders regarding infrastructure needs and solutions.
Key Skills:
- Minimum 15 years of experience in IT infrastructure.
- Hands-on experience with cloud build projects and cloud migration/transformation.
- Strong technical knowledge of virtualization technologies (VMware, Hyper-V, Oracle Virtualization).
- Experience with Microsoft technologies (Windows Server, Active Directory, Exchange).
- Knowledge of Unix operating environments (Oracle Solaris, HP-UX, Linux).
- Technical knowledge of server, compute, storage, and backup technologies.
- Good understanding of cloud technologies and their integration.
- Excellent communication skills.
Salary (Rate): undetermined
City: undetermined
Country: USA
Working Arrangements: remote
IR35 Status: outside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Job Title: Infrastructure Transformation Architect
Experience Required: Minimum 15 Years
Location: Remote (CST and EST Time Zone Pref.)
Job Type: Contractor
Infrastructure Transformation Architect
JOB DESCRIPTION:
Has an ability to gather application functionality and non-functional requirement understand it and convert them into the overall IT infrastructure designs and implementation solutions for client's Business services
Has experience in DC transformation projects, which involved environment analysis, right sizing for future, designed and implemented on public and On prem cloud. Post implementation migration of Virtual and physical infra from as-is environment to newly build infrastructure on public/ Private cloud.
- Hands on experience in Cloud Build projects, Cloud Migration/Transformation,
- Ability to understand business requirements and transform it into a robust and efficient solution at optimized efforts and within budgeted costs
- Evaluate technology, market trends and industry, identify prospective impact on business
- Experience in building solution around Nutanix, HyperV based on on-premise hyperconverged infrastructure
- Craft the Infrastructure migration strategies, principles, and high-level design document.
- Develop processes and templates that are innovative without being stifling and restrictive.
- Review and Stitch infrastructure low level design documents which includes compute, storage and backup, Database, networks and security
- Develop implementation plan for infrastructure architecture on basis of IT strategies and business requirements
- Evaluate and recommend infrastructure solutions to best meet the seamless migration need of the business services.
- Assure that the most appropriate IT practices measures are in place.
- Strong technical knowledge and hands on experience on virtualization technologies like
- VMware Infrastructure 4.x/5.x/6.x, VMware SRM, VMware Realize, VMware Licensing
- Hyper-V 2008R2/2012R2, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, Microsoft Licensing
- Oracle Virtualization (OVM)
- Red Hat Virtualization
- Strong technical knowledge and hands on experience on Microsoft technologies like
- Windows server 2008/2008R2/2012/..2022 and Licensing
- Active Directory Services
- Federation Services
- Failover Clustering Services
- Microsoft Exchange
- Strong technical knowledge and hands on experience on Unix Operating environment like
- Oracle Solaris
- HP-UX
- IBM AIX
- Linux (RHEL, OEL, Ubuntu etc)
- Oracle Engineered System
- Technical knowledge on AD/LDAP/NTP/SMTP services with upgradation, Migration
- Strong technical knowledge on Server, compute, storage and backup technologies like HP, Oracle, Cisco, DELL Blade server technologies, Virtual Connect technologies, etc.
- VMware VCF , NSX , Aria , Infoblox , Tenium , Chef , HP & Dell hardware
- Good understanding of cloud technologies and its integration.
- Good Communication skills.