Infrastructure Architect

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About the Job

Our client has a requirement for a Senior infrastructure architect for a 12-months contract opportunity. The position is located in Mississauga

What makes this Special

Our client is one of the largest Banks in North America. With exponential growth and millions of customers and clients who are served through our various businesses: Canadian Personal and Commercial Banking, Wealth Management, U.S. Personal and Commercial Banking, and Wholesale Banking. Being part of this company is being part of a better Canadian service.

Role

The Capacity Management Team within a Bank Infrastructure Technology Solutions (ITS) provides centralized capacity management, planning and acquisition of hardware and software for all platforms and technologies. ITS Capacity Management is seeking an individual contributor to join the Capacity Planning & Management Team.

Responsibilities

Creates capacity plan for compute, M/W and D/B technologies on project-by-project basis Leverages project forecast demand to develop long-term forecasts on infrastructure/ LOB capacity requirements for compute, M/W and D/B technologies Communicate to platform owners and LOBs on long-term capacity infrastructure requirements Leverages currency reports to ensure that future capacity plans/reports take into account versioning and standards Tracks relevant performance metrics Usage of capacity plans to engage procurement team proactively/at an early stage Reports on capacity utilization, alerting relevant parties based on results Provides actionable recommendations to avoid capacity-related issues proactively (using data from reporting tools) Conducts capacity analysis, modeling, and right-sizing Manages capacity reservations and assignments Coordinates the ordering-to-build process Provides consulting and resolution services for capacity-related incidents/service requests Provides cross-training to Support Teams to ensure proper triage of capacity issue Communicates future capacity requirements to vendor management group using capacity plan output from capacity planning analysts Communicate to platform owners and LOBs on long-term capacity infrastructure requirements all other technologies Provides consulting services on all other technologies to project teams on feasibility, best-practices, and standards; engaged by Design Leads & PMs as required in all phases of business projects Tracks relevant performance metrics Manages inventory of licenses for monitoring tools as well as all other technologies/platforms Designs, develops, and manages/maintains tools used exclusively by Capacity team

Requirements or Qualifications

• Previous experience in Infrastructure Capacity Planning/Management role for server and storage
• Understanding of Storage Networking concepts: SCSI, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, CIFS, NFS
  3. Exposure with recent working knowledge of virtualized server hosting environments (e.g. Power and ESX)
• Working experience with hardware and software storage products and solutions, including Hitachi, Cisco, Brocade, EMC, NetApp and IBM
• Knowledge of Middleware (ie. Websphere, Tomcat, IIS, etc…) and Database (SQL, Oracle, DB2, etc...) an asset.

 

Nice to have skills

• Strong MS Office Suite skills (Excel, Visio, PPT, Word)
• Experience and scripting knowledge of UNIX and Windows operating systems an asset.
• Database scripting experience an asset.

 

Keywords: Architect, SAN, Hitachi, Middleware and UNIX

 

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