Position: Infrastructure Architect
Company: Virtuace
Category: Lead
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

This role will be responsible for developing, documenting, maintaining, supporting, and optimizing automation workflows. Subject matter expertise is required in Microsoft PowerShell/Azure Cloud Shell scripting. 

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Work in conjunction with enterprise architect on design, strategy, and standards; documents and publishes appropriate infrastructure architecture principles and standards, position papers, blueprints, best practices, patterns, and frameworks
- Set strategic direction for various infrastructure technologies such as public cloud, directory services, collaboration services, network, storage, server, database and security best practices
- Promotion of shared infrastructure and applications to reduce costs and improve information flows. Ensure that projects do not duplicate functionality or diverge from each other and business and IT strategies.
- Serve as level-4 escalation point for operations team and assist with problem resolution and root cause analysis as needed
- Plans for life and refresh cycles. Ensures that architected solutions work in line with application, network, desktop, server, storage, etc.
- Develops and monitors technology architecture and technology vision; determines current and future enterprise infrastructure needs
- Ensures that installations and upgrades are done in accordance with established policies, procedures, and license agreements•Identifies, implements, and monitors best practices for infrastructure technology architecture
- Reviews software requirements and designs architecture for high availability and disaster recovery as per business requirements

TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS:
- Minimum 5 years of architecture-related experience, at least 3 of which needs to be working as an architect 
- Experience in IT Consulting is preferred
- Ability to work with and lead Infrastructure and DevOps teams toward IT infrastructure solutions 
- Expert knowledge of standard infrastructure components such as Windows-based servers, enterprise network components, public cloud Infrastructure/PaaS technologies, Microsoft Exchange/Office 365, Microsoft Active Directory, Microsoft SQL Server, Server Virtualization, Enterprise SAN StorageCloud certification in AWS, Azure or Google Cloud

GENERAL QUALIFICATIONS:
- Excellent written and oral communications
- Ability to work with and present solution ideas to C-level executives
- Demonstrated history of enterprise application Infrastructure design & several years’ experience creating enterprise Infrastructure architectures and solutions
- Experience in leading projects 
- Experience with merger and acquisition IT Infrastructure planning 
- Analytical skills and ability to see the big picture
- High degree of curiosity about new technologies
- Negotiation and persuasion skills

WE OFFER:
— To work with a company that is financially stable and reliable
— Tuition Reimbursement & Professional Qualification benefits
— Competitive paid-time-off programs, including company-paid holidays
— Ability to work with real professionals;
— Possibility to work in a comfortable office (Alpharetta, GA; Boston, MA; Charlotte, NC; Conshohocken, PA; Florham Park, NJ; Mt Juliet, TN; New York, NY; Purchase, NY);
— Competitive salary;
— Collaborative friendly team environment.