Cloud Infrastructure Architect

Sonoma Consulting Inc.; Lincolnshire (IL); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

A national IT Consulting firm is seeking a senior professional to lead the long-term strategic technology direction regarding cloud architectures. The ideal candidate must have over 15 years of infrastructure experience and a deep understanding of cloud service providers like Azure and AWS. Responsibilities include evaluating designs, coaching teams on best practices, and supporting project teams. This role demands expertise in virtualization technologies and cloud automation scripting.

Qualifications

• Preferred Years of Infrastructure Experience: 15+ years.
• Strong understanding of cloud technologies and IT concepts.
• Experience with virtualization (VMware, Hyper-V) and OpenStack.

Responsibilities

• Lead company’s strategic technology direction in cloud architectures.
• Evaluate designs and document risks.
• Coach teams on cloud best practices.
• Support cloud migration and SaaS/PaaS projects while maintaining security.

Skills

Cloud service provider capabilities

Automation for workload management

Enterprise level storage area networks

Virtualization technologies

Infrastructure automation scripting

Client/Server architectures

Networking architectures

OpenStack

DevOps scripting

SAN

Education

15+ years infrastructure experience

Job description

Sonoma Consulting is one of the fastest growing national IT Consulting and Executive Search company in the United States, which was founded in 2011 by Mark McGee, the President and CEO. Sonoma Consulting has two business divisions - IT Consulting Services & Executive Search to serve its 150 national clients which range from entrepreneurial start-ups to Global Fortune 500.

Job Description

Responsibilities

• Lead company’s long-term strategic technology direction and education regarding cloud architectures.
• Evaluate designs and architectures and document results/risks based on required technical parameters.
• Keep abreast of a broad range of technologies that may deliver value to Client's business.
• Help organize support models for new applications hosted by Client.
• Coaching Customer and Partner teams on Cloud best practices.
• Support project teams in taking advantage of PaaS and SaaS offerings while still meeting information security requirements.

Qualifications

• Preferred Years of Infrastructure Experience: 15+

Technical Skills

• Deep and broad knowledge of cloud service provider capabilities and integration with on premise infrastructure/systems.
• Deep knowledge of automation for moving workloads on and off premise, cloud based file and sync capabilities, cloud content security and protection, cloud based archiving, cloud based application workflow and content management.
• Deep and broad knowledge of enterprise level storage area networks, data center storage, replication services & supporting technologies as they relate to cloud services technologies.
• Deep and broad experience/Knowledge of Cloud providers (Private, Hybrid, and Public) specifically including Azure and AWS.
• Deep technical knowledge of virtualization technologies (VMWare, Hyper-V).
• Operating Systems (Linux, Solaris, Unix, Windows).
• Understanding OpenStack deployments and integration.
• Knowledge of cloud technology and distributed computing.
• Strong technical knowledge of cloud technologies & IT concepts (VMWare, HyperV, Cisco, Microsoft, EMC, AWS, etc.).
• Previous experience designing and deploying solutions on Azure and/or AWS.
• Infrastructure automation through DevOps scripting (E.g. shell, Python, Ruby, Powershell).
• Client/Server and Multi-tier Architectures.
• Communications and Networking Architectures.
• Experience with replication and data protection architecture and solutions.
• Experience with SAN & NAS technologies.

Additional Information

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