Senior Infrastructure Architect

General Electric (GE)

Saudi Arabia

Ref: KP132-643

Job description / Role

Employment: Full Time

Role Summary:

Enterprise level Infrastructure Architect with hands on infrastructure experience (data centers, network, storage, virtualized/cloud computing infrastructure) with keen problem solving capabilities and creative thinking.

Essential Responsibilities:

In this role you will:

- 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 and enterprise level.
- Participate in infrastructure architecture governance model development and oversight
- 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

Requirements

Qualifications/Requirements:

- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or in "STEM" Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math)
- A minimum of 5 years of professional experience in OR a Master's degree in a relevant technical area
- Must be willing to travel 60%
- Must have a valid transferrable employment visa in Saudi Arabia

Desired Characteristics:

Technical Expertise:
- Skilled level expertise in design of to meet business application system qualities
- Understands technical and business discussions relative to future architecture direction aligning with business goals.
- Understands concepts of setting and driving architecture direction.
- Familiar with elements of gathering architecture requirements.
- Understands architecture standards concepts to apply to project work.
- Responsible for designing and implementing enterprise infrastructure and platforms required for cloud computing.
- Analyzes system requirements and ensures that systems will be securely integrated with current applications.
- Implementation and Road map on Application development on cloud Environment.
- Understanding of system development in cloud environments, including Software as Service (SaaS), Platform as Service (PaaS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)
- Cloud adoption plans, cloud application design, and cloud management and monitoring.
- Application Architecture on Public, Private and Hybrid cloud.
- Understanding and Working Proficiency on OpenStack, VirtualStream and other cloud Environment.
- Understanding PaaS, Cloud Foundry.
- Deep Understanding and at least 3+Working Proficiency on Virtualization and IT Infrastructure.
- Understanding and Working Proficiency on IT Networking and VPN.

Business Acumen:
- Understand key cross-functional concepts that impact the organization; is aware of business priorities and organizational dynamics.

Leadership:
- Familiar with concepts of costing hardware and software components. Works to assure work is on-time and within budget.
- Delivers tasks on-time with alignment to architectural goals. Can identify and raise issues, risks and benefits.
- Participates in change initiatives by implementing new directions and providing appropriate information and feedback.

Personal Attributes:
- Applies values, policies, procedures and precedent to make timely, routine decisions of limited, clear choice.
- Reacts open-mindedly to new perspectives or ideas. Considers different or unusual solutions when appropriate.
- 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.

About Us: GE is the world's Digital Industrial Company, transforming industry with software-defined machines and solutions that are connected, responsive and predictive. Through our people, leadership development, services, technology and scale, GE delivers better outcomes for global customers by speaking the language of industry.

Locations: Saudi Arabia; Riyadh

About the Company

GE is a diversified technology, media and financial services company, dedicated to creating products that make life better. From aircraft engines and power generation to financial services, medical imaging, television programming and oil and gas, GE operates in more than 100 countries and employs over 300,000 people worldwide.

GE's Oil & Gas business is a leader in the development and delivery of advanced product and service offerings for the global oil and gas industry. As a consequence of the rapid expansion of its technology base, GE's Oil & Gas is capable of addressing the largest and most complex engineering and application challenges entirely from its own worldwide resources. So whether it's the world's largest LNG compression trains, re-injection of high sulfur gas, enhancing the safety and productivity of the world's oil and gas pipelines, or equipment for the production of oil and gas from harsh environments, GE is leading the charge.

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