WPB - Infrastructure Lead Architect
ref nr: 78/3/2024/AS
In Antal we have been dealing with recruitment for over 20 years. Thanks to the fact that we operate in 10 specialised divisions, we have an excellent orientation in current industry trends. We precisely determine the specific nature of the job, classifying key skills and necessary qualifications. Our mission is not only to find a candidate whose competences fit the requirements of the given job advertisement, but first and foremost a position which meets the candidate’s expectations. Employment agency registration number: 496.
The Infrastructure Architecture function partners with Application Delivery Architecture to:
1. Deliver high quality technology platforms with tiered service levels
2. Deliver cost savings & efficiency through reduced complexity
3. Improve time to market for delivery of services
4. Enable effective regulatory, audit & security controls
5. Drive productivity & sustainability
Infrastructure Architecture is comprised of:
- Enterprise Architects responsible for 3-5 year technical strategy, underpinning the Future State Architecture.
- Solution Architecture aligned to each Global Business to manage & optimise the portfolio of infrastructure services used, driving operational improvement & cost efficiencies and providing cost effective infrastructure architecture & designs which align with over all technical strategy.
- Cloud Architects aligned to each Cloud Service Provider to manage Cloud capability and platform roadmaps.
- Technical Architects aligned by each technology to manage the infrastructure services, vendor engagement and product lifecycles.
This role will support the IT business projects and transformation programmes:
• delivering new IT services, exploiting Cloud and infrastructure technologies
• migrating applications to IaaS / PaaS platforms on internal and external cloud.
• driving a greater utilization of virtualisation & lower cost storage
• migrating away from non-strategic technology platforms
• optimising data backup and retention policies
Essential Experience:
Have a system engineering background and the ability to compare and contrast different solutions to meet a business requirement. Provide technical thought leadership in evaluation of new technologies to meet business requirements and influence key stakeholders leading to adoption. Have in-depth conceptual functional and non-functional knowledge of:
• Cloud Platforms (Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, Alibaba Cloud)
• Containerisation Capabilities (Docker, Kubernetes, Service Mesh and Microservices)
• Continuous Integration / Continuous Delivery (Jenkins, GitHub, Nexus)
• Automation tools (Terraform, Ansible, Puppet,)
• Databases (Oracle & MS SQL; VCS & MSCS)
• Collaboration tools (Confluence, Jira)
