Job Title: Senior Infrastructure ArchitectRate: $57.24 – $72.41 per hour based on experience and qualifications
Employment Type: Temp to Hire Resource, W2
Duration: ASAP – 3/29/24 with intent to hire long term
Location: Hybrid position with requirement to be onsite Tuesdays and Wednesdays in Columbus, OH or Merrillville, IN.

Scope of Services:

As a Senior Infrastructure Architect, you will play a pivotal role in defining and allocating business-oriented subsystem requirements, ensuring adherence to architecture blueprints. Your responsibilities include active participation in strategic technology planning sessions, analyzing system requirements, and providing technical leadership in designing and reviewing new systems. With over 5 years of experience, your expertise spans infrastructure architecture, familiarity with frameworks like TOGAF and Zachman, and a comprehensive understanding of various infrastructure and security domains. Leveraging hands-on expertise in areas such as server hardware, cloud management, and disaster recovery, you will contribute to the delivery of high-quality services, demonstrating proficiency in enterprise architecture principles, infrastructure design, and the evaluation of software and equipment components. An understanding of industry best practices, knowledge of PMI processes, and ITIL certification would be advantageous.

Roles, Responsibilities and Deliverables:

• Ensure that the relevant requirements are clearly allocated to the business-oriented subsystems, and provide clear definitions of the scope and boundaries of each of the business-oriented subsystems
• Participate in reviews and provide guidance to ensure that architecture blueprint is followed
• Participate in strategic architecture technology planning sessions with management
• Analyze system requirements and recommend alternative technologies and improvements
• Lead design and review of new systems
• Create technical design documents

Qualifications: 

• 5 years experience in role with: 
• Demonstrated experience in Infrastructure architecture with the ability to clearly formulate end-to-end hosting environment technical plans in accordance with Customer's requirements 
• Experience in IT systems architecture/ systems design, development, and maintenance of large-scale systems preferably across multiple hardware and software platforms and/or business unit management experience that includes working closely with IT in the development and implementation of large-scale systems 
• Familiarity with architecture frameworks and standards such as TOGAF, Zachman etc. 
• Experience working with a variety of infrastructure and security domains e.g. Data center, Network, End user, Hosting, Service Management etc. 
• Demonstrated customer service, communications and leadership skills 
• Knowledge of information technology and associated methods and tools used to attain project/business unit objectives 
• Basic knowledge of the PMI process groups (initiating, planning, executing, controlling and closing) and current Project Management methodologies 
• Demonstrated technical skills in the applicable technical domain for the delivery of the Services 
• Working knowledge of enterprise architecture principals 
• Working knowledge of infrastructure design and enterprise level solutions 
• Experience in the evaluation and selection of Software and Equipment components of the Infrastructure 
• Knowledge of industry best practices in modeling, simulation, and testing
• ITIL v3 or v4 a plus

Position requires hands-on / subject matter expertise in 2 or more areas:

• Server Hardware
• Backup and Recovery Systems
• Converged / Hyperconverged Infrastructure
• Cloud Management (Azure / AWS)
• Virtualization Technology / Software Defined Data Center
• Disaster Recovery
• Detailed Design Writing and Review
• Incident and Problem Resolution
• Change Review
• Asset, Configuration and Capacity Planning

To apply, please submit a resume outlining your relevant experience and approach to being a Senior Infrastructure Architect. Short-listed candidates will be expected to complete a Blue Star Partners Bio.