Infrastructure Architect/Solution Engineer Livingston, NJ This role will be hybrid onsite 2-3 days a week. Long term contract. No H!B, CPT, OPT The successful candidate will have a deep and broad understanding of Infrastructure architecture, features, and integration capabilities for a very large enterprise. In this role the architect will develop strategies and roadmaps that ensure optimal performance and productivity. Highlighted responsibilities:
- Develop private cloud architectures and designs that incorporate high availability, automation, operations supportability and scalability to a high volume, rapidly growing world class digital business.
- Promote use of innovative new technology and best practices for BU or Enterprise-wide new product and solution development initiatives.
- Drive changes to current and strategic architectural blueprints.
- Establish infrastructure technology architectures, standards, test plans, design templates and governance.
- Conduct vendor and product analysis, evaluation, certification and recommendation of new or enhanced IT vendor products and services
- Successfully coordinate and solicit input from other IT Disciplines when developing solutions, roadmaps and vision.
- Facilitate cross-functional teaming through effective leadership.
- Ability to seamlessly communicate at all levels of the organization.
Required experience:
- 3-5 years Infrastructure Architecture experience across network, compute (physical/VMware), database and storage
- Experience in Openstack advanced designs
- Experience in VMware to Openstack migrations
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaaC) or software defined infrastructure solutions
- Private cloud designs that focus on resiliency, high availability and security
- Private cloud migration strategies
- Kubernetes experience or understanding of design concepts (desired)
- Private cloud automation experience is a plus