Develop private cloud architectures and designs that incorporate high availability, automation, operations supportability and scalability to a high volume, rapidly growing world class digital business.
Promote use of innovative new technology and best practices for BU or Enterprise-wide new product and solution development initiatives.
Drive changes to current and strategic architectural blueprints.
Establish infrastructure technology architectures, standards, test plans, design templates and governance.
Conduct vendor and product analysis, evaluation, certification and recommendation of new or enhanced IT vendor products and services
Successfully coordinate and solicit input from other IT Disciplines when developing solutions, roadmaps and vision.
Facilitate cross-functional teaming through effective leadership.
Ability to seamlessly communicate at all levels of the organization.
Required experience:
3-5 years Infrastructure Architecture experience across network, compute (physical/VMware), database and storage
Experience in Openstack advanced designs
Experience in VMware to Openstack migrations
Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaaC) or software defined infrastructure solutions
Private cloud designs that focus on resiliency, high availability and security
Private cloud migration strategies
Kubernetes experience or understanding of design concepts (desired)
Private cloud automation experience is a plus
NOTE: This is an Architect level position---NOT an engineer