Minimum Skills & Experience Required:

• A minimum of 8 years experience in Infrastructure Architecture
  

• Infrastructure architecture and/or infrastructure solution design in a banking or similar large corporate environment.
  

• Working knowledge of server hardware and virtualisation technology.
  

• Working knowledge of server operating systems (RHEL, Windows Server).
  

• Working knowledge of storage systems (SAN and IP Storage).
  

• Working knowledge of data centre networking (DNS, GSLB, IP Routing).
  

• Gathering business and application requirements and translating that into an infrastructure architecture/design artefact.
  

• Hybrid Cloud (e.g AWS, Azure, VMware, Azure Local, RedHat OpenShift, Nutanix, HCS - Huawei Cloud Stack).
  

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
  

• Windows Server.
  

• IBM Flash Storage.
  

• Pure Storage.
  

• Dell PowerScale (Isilon) ECS, PowerFlex.
  

• Familiarity with enterprise grade networking technologies.
  

• Focused on the technical solution design and implementation verification of the various components of the solution architecture.
  

• Requires a high level of in-depth expertise.
  

• Closely aligned to relevant technical SME’s for collaboration.
  

• Responsible for the preparation of artefacts for operational handover.
  

• Responsible for informing stakeholders about potential threats and misalignment of solutions, including areas for improvement and optimization.