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Infrastructure Architect/Advisor
Job Summary: Talent Software Services is in search of an Infrastructure Architect/Advisor for a contract position in Chattanooga, TN. The opportunity will be three months with a strong chance for a long-term extension.
Primary Responsibilities/Accountabilities:
Qualifications:
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Job Summary: Talent Software Services is in search of an Infrastructure Architect/Advisor for a contract position in Chattanooga, TN. The opportunity will be three months with a strong chance for a long-term extension.
Primary Responsibilities/Accountabilities:
- The Infrastructure Architect/Advisor will create, communicate, and ensure adherence to enterprise-wide infrastructure platform technology architecture design, principles, guidelines, and solutions.
- Responsible for advancing IT infrastructure architecture in support of the business and IT strategy, and developing roadmaps and blueprints to ensure architecture goals are met.
- Collaborates with the Infrastructure staff during system design and development phases, providing advice, interpretation, and review of infrastructure platform architecture and design principles.
- Focuses on overall project technical and architecture design, quality of solution, knowledge transfer to other areas, and mentoring the project technical team members.
- Conducts research and understands hardware, network, storage, virtualization and cloud computing industry trends with regards to technology, and can understand and evaluate the use of automated tools and utilities and how they relate in support of the overall enterprise architecture.
- Provide technological guidance within an organization.
- Supervise information system and communications network.
- Design, establish, and maintain a network infrastructure for local and wide area connectivity and remote access.
- Consult with administration, department managers, and manufacturing representatives to exchange information, present new approaches, and to discuss equipment/system changes.
- Participate in vendor contract negotiations for all new computer equipment and software purchased for the corporation.
- Create a cost-benefit analysis as well as supporting a detailed definition of data requirements and departmental workflows.
- Assess and anticipate technology projects and recommend appropriate action and resources.
- Establish and direct the strategic and tactical goals, policies, and procedures for the information technology department.
- Propose hardware/software solutions to accomplish the company's business objectives.
- Develop and establish operating policies and approaches for computing and information technology.
- Evaluate overall operations of computing and information technology functions and recommend enhancements.
- Advise senior management on strategic systems conversions and integrations in support of business goals and objectives.
- Misc. duties as assigned
Qualifications:
- Minimum of 12 years of management experience, including managing system development, integration, operations, maintenance, and support efforts globally.
- Experience in establishing system controls needed to maintain the security and integrity of operations systems, to protect individual's rights to data privacy, to comply with local laws and regulations, and to assure business continuity.
- Experience in architecting and implementing knowledge exchange environments which facilitate organizational learning.
- IT architecture, planning and deployment coupled with SaaS
- Technology platform transition
- Application change control
- Systems enhancement request prioritization / release management
- Expertise in hardware and software procurement
- Vendor management
- IT budgeting and planning
- Experience architecting automated data center processes, including provisioning, application and patch management, monitoring and alerting, capacity monitoring and planning, leveraging execution and human approval workflow design and implementation
- Experience with Business Continuity and Disaster Recover design, planning and implementation for virtualized and cloud infrastructure
- Knowledge of physical and virtual global storage and network technologies, capabilities, trends and the automated interaction with the physical infrastructure (Cisco, CheckPoint, Alcatel, EMC, NetApp, etc.).
- Knowledge of virtualization management and monitoring technologies, capabilities and market trends.
If this job is a match for your background, we would be honored to receive your application!
Providing consulting opportunities to talented people since 1987, we offer a host of opportunities including contract, contract to hire and permanent placement. Let's talk!
