Desired Skills and Experience
- Responsible for complete IT infrastructure design, systems analysis, data centre operation, network & voice communication in our firm/
- Acts as expert for infrastructure in the plan, design, and delivery of IT solutions
- Advises team members of IT technology standard requirements, methodology and processes.
- Drives short & long term architecture strategy for the overall IT project portfolio for key business segments.
- Participates in proof of concepts to assist in defining technology direction and enabling business strategy.
- Conducts end-to-end technical plan design.
- Provide support in developing long-term strategy for historical data retention and archival plan for storage needs.
- Provide support in defining data retention, backup, and recovery methods and plans.
- Acts as expert for the development of enterprise standards to ensure compatibility and integration of multi-vendor platforms.
- Designs and develops infrastructure blueprints for the implementation of new solutions.
- Responsible for impact analysis and design modifications to existing systems to support new solutions.
- Develops specifications for interfaces from existing to new systems.
- Maintain a common documentation library of standardized procedures and configurations
- Provide third level support for incidents and problems in designated areas of expertise.
- Communicate and collaborate with local IT staff as well as colleagues in other parts of the world for configuration, troubleshooting
- Effectively interact and communicate with business partners
- Can consolidate requirements and translate them into IS deliverables
- Understands and adheres to company’s quality management processes and practices
- Familiar with quality evaluation methods such as user acceptance testing (UAT), unit and integration testing, etc.
- Can participates in quality control activities
- Working knowledge of quality assurance methods, tools and techniques
- Can describe and interpret quality indicators relevant to own unit or function
- Has a 5+ years’ experience in a production IT environment managing enterprise IT infrastructure, hardware, hosting service and network areas.
- Ability to write architecture design documents or review design documents provided by others.
- Knowledge and understanding of industry trends and new technologies and ability to apply trends to architectural needs.
- Operates independently
- Is able to handle complex projects (technically complex and/or multiple stakeholders & involved teams)
- General network knowledge (TCP/IP, routing, VLANs, DNS/DHCP, VPNs…)
- Strong working knowledge of VMware or other virtual software
- Strong knowledge in disc storage technologies
- Strong Project Management skills
- A broad architecture domain knowledge (vision, design, projects, implementation)
- Ability to keep a holistic overview but at the same time can take a deep dive into technicalities when required
- Strong communication skills – both written and verbal
- Effective negotiation skills, able to facilitate collaboration between stakeholders with differing opinions
- Strong team building skills, with emphasis on collaboration and “getting teams” aligned
- Great presentation skills