Openstack Architect

Role - Openstack Architect

Rate - 80-85/hr on C2C

Client - Fintech

Hybrid Role in Livingston, New Jersey.

Work Auth - All Except H1B

Job Description

Immediate need for an Infrastructure Architect/Solution Engineer. This role will be hybrid onsite 2-3 days a week. Long term contract.

The successful candidate will have a deep and broad understanding of Infrastructure architecture, features, and integration capabilities for a very large enterprise. In this role the architect will develop strategies and roadmaps that ensure optimal performance and productivity.

Highlighted responsibilities:

• Develop private cloud architectures and designs that incorporate high availability, automation, operations supportability and scalability to a high volume, rapidly growing world class digital business.
• Promote use of innovative new technology and best practices for BU or Enterprise-wide new product and solution development initiatives.
• Drive changes to current and strategic architectural blueprints.
• Establish infrastructure technology architectures, standards, test plans, design templates and governance.
• Conduct vendor and product analysis, evaluation, certification and recommendation of new or enhanced IT vendor products and services
• Successfully coordinate and solicit input from other IT Disciplines when developing solutions, roadmaps and vision.
• Facilitate cross-functional teaming through effective leadership.
• Ability to seamlessly communicate at all levels of the organization.

Required experience:

• 3-5 years Infrastructure Architecture experience across network, compute (physical/VMware), database and storage
• Experience in Openstack advanced designs
• Experience in VMware to Openstack migrations
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaaC) or software defined infrastructure solutions
• Private cloud designs that focus on resiliency, high availability and security
• Private cloud migration strategies
• Kubernetes experience or understanding of design concepts (desired)
• Private cloud automation experience is a plus