Infrastructure Solutions Architect

Infrastructure Solutions ArchitectIrving, TX12+MonthsThe Infrastructure Architect will be part of a diverse and dynamic team whose role deliver well thought solution designs of complex, multi-tier, cross platform environments. In this role, the architect will identify and analyze business requirements, develop and design and drive the end to end solution delivery. The architect will partner with business leaders, developers, engineers, and production support teams globally to provide design guidelines, impart knowledge on technical trends and serve as a Subject Matter Expert on various architecture disciplines. Infrastructure Architecture & Strategy:

• Work with senior technologists to influence and shape the strategic and future direction target state infrastructure architecture.
• Broad knowledge of various enterprise technology architectures and business platforms
• Define and implement infrastructure standards, process, patterns, workflow, SLAs, SLOs.
• Design reference architectures, generate infrastructure solution cost and enforce Client solution patterns complying with governance and compliancy standards.
• Influence and educate the business, engineers, build delivery and support teams on standards, processes and tools
• Use of project management methodologies and tools to drive end to end solution delivery.

• Develop comprehensive high level infrastructure solutions that incorporate strategic target state architecture and standards to maximize performance, capacity and minimize total cost of ownership.
• Understands and can apply knowledge of Internet/Intranet, e-commerce, enterprise technologies to infrastructure solutions
• Experienced in UNIX and Windows technologies, including database, messaging and web platforms, with a strong focus on implementation
• Systems planning and engineering skills and strong technical problem-solving skills
• Broad knowledge of data centers and support services, monitoring, performance modeling, capacity analysis and planning, client/server environments and advanced modeling and trending tools in advanced environments.
• In-depth understanding of Networks, SAN, Backup, Web, Middleware, Database, Security, High Availability, operational support technologies
• The ability to review utilization metrics, analyze, and arrive at a conclusion of end state resource allocations.

• Partner with the application owners to develop and update comprehensive DR strategy for the line of businesses across the global enterprise
• Work with Production teams to develop specific Disaster Recovery plans that meet the overall strategy
• Recommend specific tools strategies, and solutions for DR solutions