Role -Infrastructure Architect
Educational Qualification
BE/ BTech in (Computer Science/ Computer Science & Engineering/ Information Technology/ Software Engineering/ Electronics & Communications Engineering or equivalent degree in relevant discipline) or MCA or MTech/ MSc in (Computer Science/ Computer Science & Engineering/ Information Technology/ Electronic & Communications Engineering) from recognized University/ Institute.
Desirable:
MBA as an additional qualification is preferred
Certifications -
OEM infra certifications, CCIE, VMware, TOGAF
Total Experience
Minimum 12 years post basic qualification in IT field
Experience in relevant architecture field
Minimum 5 years preferably in Banking / Financial Sector
Job Profile (Detailed)
- Set up infrastructure architecture standards and governance structures.
- Create secure IT infrastructure architecture and roadmaps aligned to business objectives.
- Review infrastructure implementations for alignment with business goals, design principles, disaster recovery, and BCP needs.
- Design and review enterprise infrastructure for best practices, regulatory compliance, security, and performance.
- Review changes to compute, storage, and network infrastructure and assess their impact.
- Evaluate new infrastructure technologies and advise on their advantages and limitations.
- Support security architecture reviews for IT infrastructure designs.
- Analyze and forecast capacity requirements to support current and future demand.
- Define, design, and document technical environments including network, cloud, and virtualization technologies.
- Develop architectural standards and processes for consistency and compliance.
- Guide teams on infrastructure design principles and mentor junior staff.
Detailed Skills
- Compute, storage, network architecture
- data center design
- cloud & hybrid infra
- virtualization
- infra migration
- capacity planning
- DR/BCP
- performance tuning
- infra automation
- security compliance
- EA tools
Specific Skills Required
- Deep understanding of infrastructure components such as compute, storage, and network.
- Ability to define best-fit architecture for enterprise infrastructure platforms.
- Strong delivery experience in business-needs assessment, capacity management, infrastructure sizing, and technical framework design.
- Skills in migration of IT infrastructure platforms across on-premise, cloud, and hybrid environments.
- Skills in data center design, connectivity, migration, and management.
- Ability to write architecture/design documents and review design documents from project teams.
- Knowledge of industry trends and emerging infrastructure technologies.
- Understanding of virtualization, software-defined infrastructure, private/public cloud, and container platforms.
- Skills in infrastructure implementation, integration, migration, and use of infrastructure management tools.
- Ability to identify and resolve performance issues and bottlenecks.
- Ability to manage infrastructure components and IT services for current and future demand.
- Expert-level OEM certifications in infrastructure areas such as compute, storage, and network are preferred.
- Strong technical problem-solving skills.
- Strong communication and presentation skills.
- Preferable hands-on experience with Enterprise Architecture tools such as Mega Hopex, Avolution ABACUS, Planview, and Orbus iServer.