Infrastructure Architect - London, United Kingdom - Persistent Systems

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    About Persistent:

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    We are a trusted Digital Engineering and Enterprise Modernization partner, combining deep technical expertise and industry experience to help our clients anticipate what's next. Our offerings and proven solutions create a unique competitive advantage for our clients by giving them the power to see beyond and rise above. We work with many industry-leading organizations across the world including 14 of the 30 most innovative US companies, 80% of the largest banks in the US and India, and numerous innovators across the healthcare ecosystem.

    About Position and details:

    • Role: Infrastructure Architect
    • Location: Harbour Exchange Square, London
    • Mode: Hybrid
    • Experience: 9 to15 years
    • Job Type: Permanent role

    Major duties and responsibilities of the job

    Infrastructure Architect -with a lot of experience in End User Computing (Microsoft 365, Teams, SharePoint Online, AutoPilot, Intune) etc

    The Architecture practice establishes and maintains the architectural framework to support the technology strategy within which IT solutions can be delivered. It is responsible for ensuring continues to deliver reliable, resilient, cost-beneficial business service solutions (current, planned and speculated) through the formulation of the enterprise strategy and architecture framework for the IT Systems, underpinned by the technical governance and compliance of IT Systems designs.

    To act as an Infrastructure Architect on a variety of internal and external IT delivery projects, key responsibilities include:

    Produce high-quality High Level Design documentation describing technical systems solutions, providing overall design direction and recommendations for resolution of complex technical issues.

    Analyse existing Design documents, find recommended options in the market, produce presentations to the Architect team with options and reasoning and later proceed with Design documents.

    Provide technical leadership and direction to the IT engineering, delivery and test teams throughout implementation phases.

    Support the Enterprise Architects in the development of infrastructure road maps to support the evolution of the technical and digital portfolios from current to future state.

    Act as a liaison between Architecture and Engineering and direct the development of technical standards and platforms, quality, and best practices.

    Knowledge, skills and abilities -

    • Competencies required for successful job performance.
    • understanding and design capability across multiple infrastructure domains such as networks, compute, storage, database, backups, virtualization, cloud, data center, collaboration and end user.
    • knowledge across several infrastructure disciplines, e.g. Microsoft Technologies, Red Hat/Linux, VMWare, ESX, vSphere, Citrix, IBM Websphere MQ, DB2, LAN/WAN/MAN, Routing, Firewall, Wireless, IDS/IPS, WAN optimization, Proxy, VPN services, Load Balancing and IT Security.
    • designing, documenting, integrating, and managing complex infrastructure solutions.

    Additionally, the successful candidate will demonstrate the following personal characteristics:

    • self-starter able to learn quickly and work/deliver independently.
    • able to multi-task as several projects and initiatives may be active at the same time.
    • strong interpersonal and influencing skills with good stakeholder management, both internal and external.
    • analytical and communication skills.
    • stakeholder management skills.
    • to work on complex projects with globally distributed teams and tight timelines.

    Benefits:

    • Competitive salary and benefits package
    • Culture focused on talent development with quarterly promotion cycles and company-sponsored higher education and certifications.
    • Opportunity to work with cutting-edge technologies.
    • Employee engagement initiatives such as project parties, flexible work hours, and Long Service awards
    • Annual health check-ups
    • Insurance coverage: group term life, personal accident, and Mediclaim hospitalization for self, spouse, two children, and parents

    Let's unleash your full potential at Persistent -

    "Persistent is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind."