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Location – Johannesburg or Stellenbosch (Hybrid/Remote)
Job Description
Our client is seeking to employ an Infrastructure Architect to join their team.
As a Senior Infrastructure Architect, you will play a critical role in designing and implementing robust IT infrastructure solutions for their clients. Your expertise will be instrumental in defining the technology roadmap, ensuring scalability, availability, and security of their clients' infrastructure. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including client stakeholders, project managers, engineers, and operations personnel, to deliver high-quality solutions that align with business objectives.
Reports to: PMO Leader, who leads their PMO and Infrastructure Projects teams.
Responsibilities
Infrastructure Design: Develop and design infrastructure solutions that align with their clients’ strategic goals and objectives. This includes data centre, cloud, security, hardware, software, network, and storage components. System Architecture: Define the overall system architecture for complex infrastructure projects, considering factors such as performance, availability, security, scalability, and cost-effectiveness. Technology Evaluation: Evaluate emerging technologies, products, and services to identify opportunities for enhancing their clients’ infrastructure and reducing risk. Conduct feasibility evaluations and make recommendations for implementation. Infrastructure Planning: Collaborate with stakeholders to identify infrastructure requirements, capacity planning, and resource allocation. Create roadmaps and provide guidance on infrastructure upgrades, enhancements, and migrations. Infrastructure Implementation: Perform technical lead during projects to implement data centre architecture, virtualization, storage, network, security, and cloud solutions to meet their clients’ needs. Security and Compliance: Ensure that infrastructure solutions meet security and compliance requirements, including data protection, access controls, high-availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity. Implement industry best practices and stay updated with evolving security threats and technologies. Technical Documentation: Create and maintain detailed documentation of infrastructure designs, configurations, standards, and procedures. Develop architectural diagrams, technical specifications, and other relevant documentation. Collaboration and Leadership: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including Demand, IT operations, project management, infrastructure engineering, and security teams, to provide design, guidance, implementation, and support for infrastructure-related initiativ...