Infrastructure Solutions Architect - Cape Town at Recru-IT

Responsibilities:

• Gather and compile technical requirements.
• Drafting and maintenance of solutions architecture diagrams.
• Present and obtain solution design approval at relevant architecture or quote forums.

Cloud and Infrastructure Designs:

• Architect end-to-end infrastructure solutions that meet business and technical requirements.
• Design and implement cloud-based solutions, ensuring seamless integration with on-premises infrastructure.
• Optimize cloud architecture for performance, cost, and security.
• Design scalable, secure, and highly available solutions.
• Deliver health checks on implementations to ensure alignment to Architecture.

Technical Leadership:

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to development and operations teams.
• Stay current with emerging cloud and infrastructure technologies as well as industry best practices.
• Present new technologies for use cases in solution architecture approval forum.

Security and Compliance:

• Implement and maintain security controls, IAM policies, encryption, and compliance frameworks.
• Ensure that the cloud environments adhere to industry-specific compliance standards.

High Availability and Disaster Recovery:

• Design and implement high availability and disaster recovery solutions.
• Develop and test failover and backup procedures.
• Develop disaster recovery strategies to minimize downtime.

Capacity Planning:

• Conduct capacity planning and performance analysis for infrastructure components.
• Develop strategies for scalability and flexibility to accommodate future growth.

Collaboration:

• Work closely with cross-functional teams, including development, operations, and security, to ensure cohesive and efficient solutions.
• Act as a technical advisor on infrastructure-related matters.

Documentation:

• Create and maintain comprehensive documentation for infrastructure solutions, including architecture diagrams and configuration details.
• Collaboration with business IT teams to ensure business implementation aligns to architectural design and the company standards.
• Assist to ensure that solution documentation and solution packs are updated upon solution / project implementation.
• Assist in troubleshooting project and BAU incidents.
• Coordination of technical tasks in BAU initiatives or business projects and ensuring delivery of tasks

Knowledge:

• Architecture Principles
• Data Centre Services
• VMware, SAN, AIX, Windows, Linux
• Defense in Depth
• Perimeter Security
• Server concepts and technologies
• Firewall concepts and Firewall rules
• Reverse Proxy services
• Load Balancing
• Disaster Recovery
• High Availability and clustering concepts
• Network VLANs and routing
• Application hosting
• Cloud Services
• Understanding of Financial concepts