Infrastructure Architect

I am currently recruiting for an Infrastructure Architect to work on an initial 6 month contract with a Financial Services company in London.

This will be looking to pay circa £625/day PAYE (you will need to use an Umbrella company).

Key skills/experience:

• Solid understanding and design capability across multiple infrastructure domains such as networks, compute, storage, database, backups, virtualization, private cloud, data center, collaboration & end user
• In-depth technical knowledge across several infrastructure disciplines, e.g. Microsoft Technologies, Red Hat/Linux, VMWare, ESX, vSphere, Citrix, IBM Websphere MQ, Oracle, DB2, LAN/WAN/MAN, Routing, Firewall, Wireless, IDS/IPS, WAN optimization, Proxy, VPN services, Load Balancing and IT Security
• Experience or technical knowledge of toolsets and infrastructure management solutions
• Experience designing, documenting, integrating and managing complex infrastructure solution

• Additionally the successful candidate will demonstrate the following personal characteristics:
• Proactive self-starter able to learn quickly and work/deliver independently
• Be able to multi task as several projects and initiatives may be active at the same time
• Possess strong interpersonal and influencing skills
• Excellent analytical and communication skills
• Leadership, presentation and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to work on complex projects with globally distributed teams and tight timelines
• Ability to design high availability solutions, including consideration to fault tolerant analysis and resiliency
• Ability to work with and manage vendors/suppliers such as IBM
• Experience of producing designs within governance frameworks
• Experience of infrastructure transformation programmes

• Bachelor and/or Master's Degree in Business, Finance, Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
• Relevant IT Architecture certification (TOGAF, CITA, RHCA etc.) or technical accreditation's (VMWare, Cisco or Juniper) beneficial.

To register your interest in this role, please apply

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