Infrastructure Architect: Infrastructure/Technology

IntroductionThe infrastructure running industries likes transportation, energy, insurance, banking or healthcare is quickly changing as the world's relationship with technology evolves. Companies have more choices than ever before between on-premise, off-premise, or a hybrid approach. Our Infrastructure Architects are responsible for keeping up with the latest and greatest of these changes and using their expertise to deliver solutions that meet the needs of our customers and products.Your Role and ResponsibilitiesThe infrastructure used by companies is quickly changing as the world's relationship with technology evolves. Companies have more choices than ever before between on-premise, off-premise, or a hybrid approach. Our Infrastructure Architects are Pre-Sales Solution Architects responsible for keeping up with these latest and greatest of these changes and using their expertise to deliver solutions that meet the needs of our customers and products.As infrastructure architect for Hybrid Platforms you will translate business requirements into infrastructure architecture and design. You have a passion for technology, trends and how technology is being applied to address business challenges. You have an in-depth understanding of cloud platforms (public and private) and services, as well as an understanding of software design patterns.In a client opportunity you will collect and analyze the client's technical and business requirements, along with current IT and cloud environments, to build solutions and provide the appropriate architecture designs required to help clients realize hybrid multicloud value and optimize their delivery of IT services. Infrastructure Architects are responsible for performance, availability and scalability of the solution and the impact on the client's infrastructure. You will follow the technical development within infrastructure and apply your knowledge to client solutions. Different type of cloud solutions will be developed and implemented by you, in close cooperation with IT Management Consultants, IT architects, both from client and our owns.Developed solution will be documented by you and presented for review and acceptance by the client management, client IT Architects and client IT Staff, depending on need. Therefore you need to be skilled in communication and documentation in order to take in feedback and adapt solutions. You will present hybrid IT solutions for small and large audiences. To be successful in this role, we expect you to be a constant learner. In this role, you might travel to client sites depending on the need.Work location: Madrid / BarcelonaRequired Technical and Professional Expertise7 years or more of experience developing Hybrid IT Infrastructure solutionsIT education on university level Master degree or Bachelor degree.Public cloud provider certifications will be valued positively.Skilled in private cloud implementations (Terraform, Vmware vRA, openstack, etc)Skilled in container technologies (k8s, Openshift, EKS, AKS, etc)Skilled in communication, as well as writing documentations and presentations.Infrastructure technology expertise.Spanish and English language: FluentPreferred Technical and Professional ExpertiseArchitect certification, for example The Open Group Certified, Master Certified Architect, or TOGAF.Skilled in automation tools (ansible, puppet, chef, etc) will be a benefitSkilled in networking and security will be valued positivelySkilled in High Availability and Cloud Disaster Recovery architectures will be valued positivelyAbout Business UnitAt Global Technology Services (GTS), we help our clients envision the future by offering end-to-end IT and technology support services, supported by an unmatched global delivery network. 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