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Infrastructure Architect

including Chief Infrastructure Architect, Enterprise Infrastructure Architect, Network Infrastructure Architect, Web Infrastructure Architect, System Architect

Overview

There are various types and levels of Infrastructure Architect who are all involved in the planning and design of technical infrastructure, including e-business solution infrastructure, to underpin business critical enterprise applications. The Infrastructure Architect will typically be a specialist in the software infrastructure components (databases, middleware etc.) or the systems infrastructure components (hardware, networks etc.).  

Role Responsibilities
  • Delivery of infrastructure architecture strategy and development of technical architectures based on an assessment of the customer or business needs
  • Definition of current infrastructure and the definition of transition steps to future infrastructure including interoperability with existing technical architecture (ie migration strategy)
  • Integration, development, delivery and documentation of the new infrastructure
  • Define the approach to performance engineering and infrastructure testing
  • Translation of business requirements into specific systems, application or process designs to support complex or leading edge solutions
  • Provide thought leadership and guidance on issues relating to infrastructure architecture
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    Experience Indicators
  • Extensive knowledge and experience developing , deploying and supporting applications across multiple platforms, processes or architectures
  • Planning and actual systems design, implementation and maintenance experience
  • Proven experience of developing and deploying distributed systems using distributed object technology in a Windows NT or UNIX environment
  • Proven expertise in the design and delivery of heterogeneous systems
  • Experience of physical and logical infrastructures, security infrastructures, performance and capacity planning
  • Experience of E-Business infrastructures
  • Risk assessment experience

    • Software Infrastructure Architects should ideally demonstrate expertise in some of the following:

  • OMG-CORBA compliant ORBs including Orbix, VisiBroker, PowerBroker, ObjectBroker or NEON
  • DCOM technologies including MTS, MSMQ, Active X Automation and ADSI
  • Internet technologies such as HTTP, SSL, CGI, and also knowledge of commercial Web server products such as Netscape and Microsoft
  • Relational or object databases e.g. Oracle, Sybase, SQL Server, ObjectStore, Objectivity
  • Object applications to relational database mapping tools such as Persistence or DBTools
  • Developing applications using object class libraries (commercial products such as RogueWave or ObjectSpace)
  • Messaging systems such as MQSeries, Neon, ISIS, or DECmessageQ
  • Interprocess communications such as RPC, sockets or shared memory
  • TP (transaction processing) monitors) such as Tuxedo or Encina
  • Developing multi-threaded applications
  • use of rules/inference engine commercial products embedded in applications (e.g. ILOG rules, Nexpert, G2, AionDS, Rete++ etc.)
  • Network management using SNMP or CMIP-based products
  • Experience with building even-driven (publish & subscribe) systems

    • Hardware Infrastructure Architects should ideally demonstrate expertise in some of the following:

  • 5 years’ plus experience gained in the deployment of distributed computing infrastructures (UNIX or NT)
  • Application and configuration management within large, enterprise computing environments
  • Experience of networking hardware (such as ATM, Frame Relay, Ethernet, E1/T1) and software (such as TCP/IP, SNA, etc.)
  • Experience of multiple operating systems (including Windows 2000, NT, UNIX, MVS) and an understanding of the system level differences between the operating systems
  • Experience of hardware sizing and benchmarking in the determination of the most cost-effective hardware infrastructures
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    Personal
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Strong problem solver
  • Keen interest in technological trends
  • Strong presentation skills and ability to articulate complex ideas and solutions clearly and concisely
  • Delivery focused
  • Self starter
  • Flexible, adaptable and able to cope with change
  • Team Player
  • An exponent of best practice

    • Locations
  • UK-wide (including London & Home Counties, Midlands, North West, North & Scotland)

    • NB: Positions with Consultancies typically require a willingness to travel according to project and client needs.

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