Infrastructure Architect

TL;DR

Infrastructure Architect: Devising, evolving, and maintaining the architecture of core ICT infrastructure services with an accent on storage, virtualization, networking, and monitoring. Focus on defining technical standards, evaluating products, and ensuring architectural compliance and resilience.

Company

Arηs Group, now part of Accenture, specializes in managing complex public sector IT projects, including systems integration, informatics, and analytics.

What you will do

• Devise, evolve, and maintain the architecture of core ICT infrastructure services, including storage, virtualisation, and operating systems.
• Devise, evolve, and maintain the baseline network and communications architecture, including telephony, WAN, and connectivity services.
• Define and evolve the ICT monitoring, observability, and alerting architecture for standardised visibility and operational resilience.
• Drive the evaluation and selection of technical products required for ICT infrastructure implementation.
• Produce, maintain, and expand baseline architecture documentation, including solution roadmaps aligned with business strategy.
• Assess business cases, project proposals, and deliverables for impact on and compliance with ICT infrastructure architecture.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree plus 10 years of overall experience.
• Minimum 5 years of work experience in an ICT Infrastructure/Solution Architecture role.
• Minimum 5 years of work experience in at least three of the following areas: core ICT infrastructure architecture, network/communications architecture, ICT monitoring/observability/alerting architecture, IT service management platforms, or ICT infrastructure standards definition/governance.
• Good knowledge of datacentre and ICT infrastructure architectures, including compute platforms, server virtualisation, containerisation, operating systems, enterprise storage, and backup/restore solutions.
• Good knowledge of network and communications architectures, including LAN, WAN, wireless, VPN, public networks, and software-defined approaches.
• Good knowledge of enterprise storage technologies and standards.
• Good knowledge of disaster recovery and business continuity architectures, including resilience and high availability principles.

Nice to have

• Good knowledge of enterprise architecture modelling methods, such as ArchiMate.
• Good knowledge of IT service management concepts and platforms, including ITSM processes and service portals.
• Good knowledge of advanced operational tooling and automation, including firewalls, SIEM/SOC, DevOps practices, and Infrastructure as Code.
• Good knowledge of cloud computing platforms and architectures, including Azure and AWS.

Culture & Benefits

• Benefits and culture details are not explicitly specified in the job posting.