It Infrastructure Architect Jobs

We are looking for an Information Technology (IT) Infrastructure Architect to provide technical leadership to enhance and support the IT infrastructure that hosts our client-facing and back-office applications in a hybrid (cloud and on-premises) environment. The successful candidate will ensure that our infrastructure meets or exceeds all performance, security, supportability, and availability requirements.

Skills:

• Can lead the development of IT technology roadmap that is aligned with business strategy.
• Has a good understanding of Virtualization including hardware platforms, storage devices, and network resources.
• Can work in an Agile environment (be part of a team and manage your own time).
• Can analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve complex IT infrastructure issues.
• Has experience building and deploying containerized applications.
• Has experience monitoring complex IT infrastructure for robustness and performance and proactively addressing warning signs before they become service outages.
• Is passionate about assisting us in improving our IT infrastructure.
• Thrives in a small multi-disciplinary team environment.
• Can mentor other team members, promote new ideas and technical solutions.
• Is proactive in defining IT Infrastructure needs, practices required in the business and can clearly articulate / communicate their value.
• Cyber Security Knowledge Experience
• 7+ years of experience architecting, designing, implementing and maintaining hybrid infrastructures.

Responsibilities

• Create Proof of Concepts (PoCs) as required to select best solution alternatives.
• Evaluate new technologies, tools and solutions.
• Define and enforce relevant technical procedures and standards.
• Evaluate, plan and accurately forecast IT resource and budgetary needs.
• Install and configure new environments based on business requirements and needs.
• Get a thorough understanding of the current architecture and oversee developing future component architecture and migration plans.
• Lead periodic security audits, security vulnerability scans and resolution of findings.
• Architect, design and implement solutions for new applications, tools, and platforms.

You should have experience with most of the following:

• Experience with containerizations tools such Docker, Kubernetes.
• Experience with one or more relational databases such as PostgreSQL, Snowflake, ...
• Linux and Windows operating systems
• Data Privacy (GDPR)
• Software and Cyber Security
• Virtualization technologies such as VMWare
• Cloud technologies and public cloud platforms such as GCP, Azure, AWS.

You should understand:

• Common development tools, such as Maven, Git, Jenkins, etc.
• Relational data
• BI tools like Tableau, Power BI, Birst
• Software architecture

Your Characteristics

You must have:

• Comfortable leading change
• Willingness to learn and work with tools that are outside the traditional stack, such as Tableau, Okta, Confirmit, and others
• Fantastic organization skills.
• Clear and concise written and verbal communication skills.

You must be:

• Detail-oriented (being able to pay close attention and notice minor details)
• Business-savvy: need to be able to interact with both business specs and technical specs
• A creative thinker: need to be able to come up with novel solutions to established problems and evaluate their business benefit.

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About Affinity:

Affinity Group is a full-service Information Technology services and staffing company. We believe recruiting is about creating long term relationships that foster a mutually beneficial partnership - an affinity. Bringing a new style of recruiting founded on five core principles: Transparency – Flexibility – Efficiency – Agility – Inclusivity.

We teamed up with ClimatePartner on 2022 to offset our emissions and move toward being a more environmentally friendly company and we are proud to now be officially Carbon Neutral Certified.

For more information on Affinity, please visit www.affinity-group.ca

Job Number: 8700