Infrastructure Tech Lead/Architect

Title: Infrastructure Tech Lead/Architect 

Role: Contract/Contract to hire/FT

Location Fountain Valley, CA

Duties and responsibilities

• Manages multiple IT Infrastructure teams/functions: Unix/Linux Systems, VMWare, Storage & Backup, hardware management. Networking infrastructure and IT monitoring operations team.
• Lead and facilitate discussions with key stakeholders, within and outside of the organization as needed, to assist in the development of new business opportunities.
• Adept at supporting varied enterprise infrastructure/technologies
• Recommend upgrades and new systems that will be more useful for the project
• Establish standards, policies and procedures for on-premises, cloud Infrastructure, 3rd party hosting including governance, automation and systems hardening.
• Develop roadmap and lead design and delivery of IT infrastructure using industry best practices and design patterns Platforms and Infrastructure.
• Responsible for full infrastructure / systems life cycle including, planning processes and project implementation support.
• Plan, implement, and maintain best practices that will drive a scalable, cost effective, flexible infrastructure that is aligned with overall IT strategy and business goals.
• Ensure availability of systems and infrastructure to meet defined SLAs for business operations.
• Develop, maintain, and test disaster recovery programs (in conjunction with Business Continuity Management) for critical systems and infrastructure in the functional areas, ensuring business can execute their business continuity plans.
• Responsible for vendor relationship management of hosted environments.
• Research new infrastructure, cloud technologies and prototype solutions that can be leveraged to decrease costs and increase performance.
• Meeting with managers of different departments and assessing IT infrastructure needs
• Meeting with IT analysts and finalizing essential IT infrastructure
• Planning and supervising installation of IT infrastructure in the company
• Making sure that the infrastructure development project is completed within the given time frame Infrastructure project manager consultant IT skills and specifications
• Excellent knowledge about all aspects of information technology specifically with complex infrastructure environments
• Previous hands-on infrastructure experience
• Must have sound background and knowledge of IT infrastructure components
• Minimum 8 -10 years of relevant technical project management on multiple large-scale global IT projects.
• Excellent analytical and observation skills
• Ability to keep up with latest developments in the field and upgrade IT infrastructure
• Good communication and negotiation skills
• Excellent planning and organization ability
• Excellent time management skills and understanding the value of a baseline
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving abilities
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science and information technology