Technical Expert/ Consultant

 Brief Description

The position of Technical Expert / Consultant consists of working on multiple projects for components of the domain, such as technical and/or functional domains.

§  Participate in the domain technical and business discussions relative to future architect direction

§  Assist in the analysis, design and development of a roadmap and implementation based upon a current vs. future state in a cohesive architecture viewpoint

§  Gather and analyze data and develop architectural requirements at project level

§  Participate in the infrastructure architecture governance model

§  Support design and deployment of infrastructure solutions meeting standardization, consolidation, TCO, security, regulatory compliance and application system qualities, for different businesses

§  Research and evaluate emerging technology, industry and market trends to assist in project development and/or operational support activities

§  Coach and mentor team members

Competencies

§  Technical Expertise

o   Skilled level expertise in design of computing or network or storage to meet business application system qualities

o   Understands technical and business discussions relative to future architecture direction aligning with business goals

o   Understands concepts of setting and driving architecture direction

o   Familiar with elements of gathering architecture requirements

o   Understands architecture standards concepts to apply to project work

o   Responsible for designing and implementing enterprise infrastructure and platforms required for cloud computing

o   Analyzes system requirements and ensures that systems will be securely integrated with current applications

o   Implementation and Road map on Application development on cloud Environment

o   Understanding of system development in cloud environments, including Software as Service (SaaS), Platform as Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)

o   Cloud adoption plans, cloud application design, and cloud management and monitoring

o   Application Architecture on Public, Private and Hybrid cloud

o   Understanding and Working Proficiency on OpenStack, Virtual Stream and other cloud Environment

o   Understanding PaaS, Cloud Foundry

o   Deep Understanding and at least 3+Working Proficiency on Virtualization and IT Infrastructure

o   Understanding and Working Proficiency on IT Networking and VPN

§  Business Acumen

o   Understand key cross-functional concepts that impact the organization; is aware of business priorities and organizational dynamics

§  Leadership

o   Familiar with concepts of costing hardware and software components. Works to assure work is on-time and within budget

o   Delivers tasks on-time with alignment to architectural goals

o   Can identify and raise issues, risks and benefits

o   Participates in change initiatives by implementing new directions and providing appropriate information and feedback

§  Personal Attributes

o   Applies values, policies, procedures and precedent to make timely, routine decisions of limited, clear choice

o   Reacts open-mindedly to new perspectives or ideas. Considers different or unusual solutions when appropriate

o   Resolves day-to-day issues related to strategy implementation. Escalates issues that impact the client and/or strategic initiatives

 Deliverables

§  Build and report infrastructure scope, schedule and plan for given project

§  Assess the cloud Hardware, Infra and Network

§  Assess and create, Modify the infrastructure document for pre-install and post-install

§  Virtual Data center and physical datacenter Configuration and installation

§  Physical installation of the servers on-perm if needed

§  Infrastructure test, acceptance and commissioning

§  Able to give training for onsite/ customer engineer for L1, L2 Support

§  Post-Go Alive Support and should be able to own the escalation support matrix and SLAs

Requirements

Qualifications

§  Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or in “STEM” Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)

§  A minimum of 2 years of professional experience in OR a Master’s degree in a relevant technical area