Remote Data Center Migration Architect - Part Time

Winged IT; Polska; Hybrid; PLN 262,000 - 303,000; Part time

Job summary

Polish IT Company is seeking an experienced Senior Data Center Infrastructure & Migration Architect to design an end-to-end infrastructure solution for a client. The project is part-time, after hours, and may last several weeks, covering virtualization, compute, storage, networking, backup and DR, and migration of Windows and Linux environments.

The Architect will integrate specialists into a cohesive architecture, lead technical workshops, and present the architecture to the client.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience designing and implementing data center, on-premise or private cloud infrastructure.
• Experience as Infrastructure Architect, Solution Architect, Technical Architect or in a similar role.
• Strong knowledge of VMware vSphere, ESXi and vCenter.
• Solid understanding of enterprise server infrastructure, storage and networking.
• Experience with backup, High Availability and Disaster Recovery.
• Proven experience planning and delivering migrations of production Windows and Linux environments.
• Experience creating high-level architectures, technical documentation and migration plans.
• Experience with infrastructure sizing, capacity planning and performance considerations.
• Strong experience leading technical workshops and working directly with customers.
• Ability to coordinate specialists across multiple infrastructure domains and turn their input into a consistent end-to-end architecture.
• Strong analytical, communication and documentation skills.
• Good command of English.
• Nice to have: Proxmox VE and Ceph.
• Nice to have: VMware-to-Proxmox migrations.
• Nice to have: VMware vSAN, NSX, SRM or VCF.
• Nice to have: Veeam, Commvault or comparable enterprise backup solutions.
• Nice to have: Data center rebuild, modernization or infrastructure transformation projects.
• Nice to have: Pre-sales, solution consulting or preparing technical proposals

Responsibilities

• Review available technical documentation and identify missing information, assumptions, dependencies and risks.
• Lead technical discovery workshops and prepare questions and recommendations for the client.
• Design the target data center infrastructure architecture.
• Define infrastructure sizing and alternative solution options together with domain specialists.
• Design solutions covering virtualization, compute, storage, networking, backup and Disaster Recovery.
• Develop the migration strategy for existing Windows and Linux environments.
• Define the approach to pilots, testing, migration waves, maintenance windows, cutover and rollback.
• Coordinate the preparation of technical designs, scope of work, implementation plans and responsibility matrices.
• Review detailed designs prepared by infrastructure specialists and ensure alignment with the overall architecture.
• Identify technical risks and recommend mitigation measures.
• Provide technical input into the commercial proposal and solution presentation.
• Present and discuss the proposed architecture with the client.
• If the project proceeds, provide architectural oversight during implementation and migration.

Job description

Polish IT Company is seeking an experienced Senior Data Center Infrastructure & Migration Architect to design an end-to-end infrastructure solution for a client. The project is part-time, after hours, and may last several weeks, covering virtualization, compute, storage, networking, backup and DR, and migration of Windows and Linux environments.

The Architect will integrate specialists into a cohesive architecture, lead technical workshops, and present the architecture to the client.