Infrastructure Architect, Amravati

Infrastructure Architect Pune, Mumbai, Bangalore Full Time Hybrid (3 days/week) Job Purpose: The Infrastructure Architect plays a key role in Client’s architecture / technology division. The role involves producing designs and overseeing the implementation of solutions encompassing hardware, software, and security to ensure performance, scalability, and reliability, bridging business needs on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments.This role involves collaborating with cross-functional teams to understand business requirements, providing technical leadership, and ensuring designs meet Client’s architectural principles and security standards. The architect should be a strong technologist that is very aware of current developments in the technology spectrum.Key Responsibilities: - Produce high-quality High Level Design documentation describing technical systems solutions, providing overall design direction and recommendations for resolution of complex technical issues. - Analyse existing Design documents, find recommended options in the market, produce presentations to the Architect team with options and reasoning and later proceed with Design documents.- Provide technical leadership and direction to the IT engineering, delivery and test teams throughout implementation phases. - Support the Enterprise Architects in the development of infrastructure road maps to support the evolution of the technical and digital portfolios from current to future state.- Act as a liaison between Architecture and Engineering and direct the development of technical standards and platforms, quality, and best practices. Required Skills and Experience: - Strong technical knowledge including Microsoft technologies, Red Hat Linux, data centre and cloud, enterprise networking, WAN/LAN/WLAN, routing, firewall, IDS/IPS, WAN optimization, proxy, VPN services, load balancing, and IT security.- Experience designing, documenting, integrating, and managing complex infrastructure solutions across on-premises and cloud environments such as AWS. - Knowledge of networking, storage and server hardware configuration and design. - Good knowledge of cloud networking (AWS and Azure) components.- Ability to communicate solutions to other stakeholders. - Ability to assess and recommend third-party tools and services to complement existing offerings. - Stakeholder management. - Knowledge of security design. - Good knowledge of Risk management - Work closely with other architecture disciplines including Enterprise, Infrastructure and Security, as well Engineering and Operations- Provide technical guidance to team members and stakeholders. - Identify and recommend opportunities for efficiency. - Stay updated on new features and capabilities and best practices. - Ability to deal with ambiguity and manage diversity. - Share knowledge with the team and contribute to the organization's learning culture.Education and Certification: - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field (or equivalent work experience). - Industry recognized certifications such as TOGAF, CITA, RHCA