Infrastructure Solution Architect

New opportunity for an IT Infrastructure Solution Architect to join a leading energy regulator committed to ensuring safe, efficient, and reliable energy services across Australia.

Overview of the opportunity:

The Infrastructure Architect will support the project teams across architectural design, analysis, and governance towards delivering successful implementation of fit-for-purpose and strategically aligned solutions, working towards transformational change across the business.

The ideal candidate for this position will have technical knowledge across a broad range of technologies, including applications, cloud, security, integration and network services.

Role and responsibilities:

• Design various architectural layers (Conceptual and Solution Architecture Documents) for targeted programs, with an emphasis on Infrastructure Architecture.
• Engage in architecture governance and working group meetings to gain approval for solutions, standards, and design patterns.
• Contribute to the development of business cases and request for proposals.
• Update and maintain the Enterprise Repository with architecture revisions.
• Assist projects by identifying and managing risks and issues early in the process.
• Support the planning, implementation, and migration of applications and infrastructure services.
• Oversee architectural governance throughout the design, construction, and operational phases.
• Provide direction to technical teams to ensure detailed designs adhere to the target architecture, standards, and patterns.

Essential Skills Experience:

• Experience completing and delivering Conceptual and Solution Architecture documents.
• Demonstrable experience developing infrastructure architecture in large, complex, and critical IT environments.
• Demonstrable experience with on-premise and public cloud (Azure mandatory) infrastructure design, from initial concept to implementation.
• Demonstrable experience designing solutions for integration technologies such as ESB, API Management, API Query / Inquiry Service, Websocket, Message Queue, Data Store, Logging, Archiving and Gateway software.
• Sound understanding of virtualisation technologies such as VMware, and Kubernetes containerisation.
• Knowledge and or experience with network technologies, such as Palo Alto firewalls, Load Balancers / Ingress Controllers such as F5, AVI, NGINX, and routing.
• Ability to present and communicate both business and technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Strong influencing skills with business and technical groups with ability to build networks across multiple stake holder groups.
• Demonstrated technology skills across multiple IT domains (application, security, infrastructure, and networks).

Education & certifications:

• Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or related field.
• IT Architecture certification such as TOGAF and SABSA.
• Microsoft Azure certification.

We are looking onboard a candidate for this requirement asap, please apply with up-to-date CV.

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