Job Description

Job Purpose:
The Infrastructure Architect plays a key role in architecture / technology division. The role involves producing designs and overseeing the implementation of solutions encompassing hardware, software, and security to ensure performance, scalability, and reliability, bridging business needs on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments.
This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements, providing technical leadership, and ensuring designs meet architectural principles and security standards. The architect should be a strong technologist that is very aware of current developments in the technology spectrum.
Key Responsibilities:

• Produce high-quality High Level Design documentation describing technical systems solutions, providing overall design direction and recommendations for resolution of complex technical issues.
• Analyse existing Design documents, find recommended options in the market, produce presentations to the Architect team with options and reasoning and later proceed with Design documents.
• Provide technical leadership and direction to the IT engineering, delivery and test teams throughout implementation phases.
• Support the Enterprise Architects in the development of infrastructure road maps to support the evolution of the technical and digital portfolios from current to future state.
• Act as a liaison between Architecture and Engineering and direct the development of technical standards and platforms, quality, and best practices.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Strong technical knowledge including Microsoft technologies, Red Hat Linux, data centre and cloud, enterprise networking, WAN/LAN/WLAN, routing, firewall, IDS/IPS, WAN optimization, proxy, VPN services, load balancing, and IT security.
• Experience designing, documenting, integrating, and managing complex infrastructure solutions across on-premises and cloud environments such as AWS.
• Knowledge of networking, storage and server hardware configuration and design.
• Good knowledge of cloud networking (AWS and Azure) components.
• Ability to communicate solutions to other stakeholders.
• Ability to assess and recommend third-party tools and services to complement existing offerings.
• Stakeholder management.
• Knowledge of security design.
• Good knowledge of Risk management
• Work closely with other architecture disciplines including Enterprise, Infrastructure and Security, as well Engineering and Operations
• Provide technical guidance to team members and stakeholders.
• Identify and recommend opportunities for efficiency.
• Stay updated on new features and capabilities and best practices.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity and manage diversity.
• Share knowledge with the team and contribute to the organization's learning culture.

Education and Certification:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
• Industry recognized certifications such as TOGAF, CITA, RHCA

Skills Required