Infrastructure Designer

HelloKindred are specialists in staffing marketing, creative and technology roles, offering a range of talent solutions that can be delivered on-site, remotely or hybrid. Our client in the Information Technology and Services industry is looking for an Infrastructure Designer to produce infrastructure design documentation aligned to solution architecture and delivered through third-party suppliers.

Requirements

• Produce infrastructure design documentation based on approved solution architecture for implementation by third-party suppliers.
• Coordinate accurate infrastructure estimates for inclusion in end-to-end project costs and business cases.
• Lead technical resources and subject matter experts within project environments.
• Contribute to infrastructure solution frameworks and design patterns with awareness of external markets and suppliers.
• Establish clear root cause for incidents impacting Infrastructure CoE deliverables and ensure remediation.
• Collaborate with third-party supplier build teams and development and test environment leads to ensure compliance to design.
• Engage with third parties to design product integration into existing and new solutions.
• Act as technical escalation point and convene troubleshooting teams to resolve infrastructure issues rapidly.
• Provide design inputs across areas including Mainframe, Networks, Wintel, Database, or Connect:Direct.
• Produce and assure infrastructure design patterns and roadmaps.
• Provide technical escalation support for production services.
• Provide technical escalation support during the build phase of new production services.
• Extensive experience in VMware platforms, infrastructure solutions, networking environments, and firewall technologies.
• Extensive expertise in leading infrastructure solution design and process improvement activities within an IT operational environment delivering efficiency, performance, and financial benefits.
• Excellent communication and influencing skills when engaging internal management, technical teams, business partners, customers, and external IT service providers.
• Strong technical authoring and documentation skills.
• Experience with Mainframe technologies including CICS, COBOL, Objectstar, CA Datacom, and VSAM is desirable.
• Knowledge of UNIX environments including AIX, Linux, and Solaris is advantageous.
• Experience with Wintel, storage, and desktop environments is beneficial.
• Understanding of data centre hosting environments is desirable.
• Exposure to cloud services and integration is advantageous.
• Familiarity with mobile and BYOD environments is beneficial.
• Knowledge of middleware and integration technologies including IBM Message Broker and DataStage is desirable.

Benefits

• Generous Paid Time Off
• 401k Matching
• Retirement Plan
• Visa Sponsorship