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#JOB - Infrastructure Solution Architect - Sunnyvale, CA (#InfrastructureArchitect #SolutionArchitect)
Job
Title: Infrastructure Solution Architect
Overall
Experience: 12-15 yrs.
Relevant
Consulting Experience: 3-5 yrs
Location:
Sunnyvale, CA
Skill must have: Cloud and Network Security.
Some
Important Point :
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Who could lead consulting strategic
team.
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Mandatory : Consulting background exp., enterprise architecture.
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Skill must have: datacenter, cloud, virtualization, network Security,
VMware,
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Should have infrastructure back ground
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Strategic background
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Prefer someone with onsite offshore
experience.
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Travel will be part of this position.
About
the role:
This
is an excellent opportunity to be part of Infrastructure Services Division’s
(ISD) Consulting group. The Consulting group is a focused group within the ISD
delivering Strategic infrastructure services to our new and existing customers.
The focus of this group is to enable our customers define IT infrastructure
strategy and also assist to adopt emerging technologies. The key theme in all
of these Consulting services is to accelerate business while reducing cost.
Some of the key service offered by this group includes
•
IT
Infrastructure cost optimization
•
Cloud
Adoption/Strategy
•
Adoption
of Software defined data center
•
IT
Infrastructure Strategy and Roadmap
We
are looking at candidates to be part of this dynamic group to develop
Consulting services portfolio and also be part of delivering the Consulting
engagements. Some of the key responsibilities of this role include
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Research and develop new Consulting services offering
(relevant to our customers)
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Involve in Pre-sales of these services which includes
o
Understanding the customer requirements related to the
service
o
Create proposal as per the customer requirements
o
Demonstrate capabilities in delivering these services along
with customer benefits
o
Work closely with the Account team to create the proposal
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The Architect will play a dual role along with the Pre-sales
responsibilities
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The Architect will be responsible for leading and delivering
these Consulting engagements
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As this role entails leading the Consulting engagement, the
candidate should have independently lead 4-5 consulting engagement with
positive outcomes in the past
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Some of the key responsibilities in this area include
o
Leading and conducting customer workshops related to services
chosen by the customer
o
Understand the business requirements and translate it to a IT
strategy specific to the service offering
o
Stakeholder management right from CIO/CTO/IT Head to the
respective Subject matter expert within the customer organization
o
Build high level business case and articulate the TCO/ROI for
the respective service
o
Ability to create a high level project plan, size the
resources required to execute the project
o
The candidate should have excellent written and verbal
communication skills as the candidate would be required to document the final
o/p and also present it to the senior management.
o
As this role includes Consulting practice development the
candidate is expected to play a major role in creating Consulting delivery
methodologies, Case studies from successful consulting engagement, research new
industry trends, vertical specific trends and document it. The goal over the
period of time is to industrialize the delivery process and the candidate has
to play a pivotal role in creating methodology for each of the service
offering.
Key
Technical Skills requirements
·
Excellent
knowledge of one of the virtualization technologies such as VMware VSphere,
Hyper-V. The candidate should have prior experience in designing Virtualization
solution which includes creating a HLD/LLD and Reference Architecture. The
candidate should have independently handled these initiatives.
·
The
candidate should be able to articulate and build a high level storage and
backup solution
·
This
includes creating the HLD
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Understand
offering from different vendors such as EMC/NetApp/HDS would be a plus
The
candidate should also have good knowledge on Networking which includes
·
Architecture
of Data Center LAN
·
WAN
Architecture
·
Remote
Access/VPN
·
QOS
Overview
of security fundamentals would be an added advantage
·
Network
security Firewalls/IDS/IPS
·
Host
based security
·
Identify
and access management
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Cloud
computing is gaining momentum and is one of our core consulting offerings. The
candidate should be able to independently handle a Cloud discussion. The
candidate should have the ability to translate a business/IT requirement to a
Cloud Strategy. In this regard the candidate is expected to have a sound
knowledge in one of the Cloud management platforms (VCAC, System Center),
Public cloud solutions such as AWS, Azure.
·
High
level understanding of Service Management is essential
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Knowledge
of some well-known applications such as SAP/Messaging/Database and Middleware
will be a bonus
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The
candidate should also have awareness and opinion on the latest industry trends
and its adoptions in the enterprise. This could include (Hyper-convergence,
SDDC etc)
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Key behaviors we are looking for in candidates
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Self-motivated
and takes the initiative
·
Customer
centric style
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Flexible
with the ability to maintain effectiveness in a changing environment
·
Team
player who can work for the cause of the organization and the team
Certifications/Accreditations:
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TOGAF
·
VMware
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EMC/NetApp
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Cisco/other networking and security
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