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Infrastructure Architect

Akkodis Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates Posted: 01 Jun 2024

Financial

  • Salary unspecified
  • Zero income tax location

Accessibility

  • Office Only
  • Visa Provided

Requirements

  • Experience: Senior
  • English: Professional

Position

About the job

Infrastructure Management:

  • Design & Define Datacenter key Components in terms of Storage, Compute and backup.
  • Understands Business requirements, transforms business needs into the correct technical solutions to fulfill the business needs.
  • Knowledge about latest datacenter technologies that qualifies him/her to choose the right vendor and the right product
  • High and Low level design of Datacenter components and how they interface.
  • Deep knowledge in virtualization technology using different hypervisors

Disaster Recovery and Backup:

  • Develop high/low level disaster recovery infrastructure architecture.
  • Define the necessary operating model to ensure a smooth fail over to DR and a fail back.
  • Develop high/low level backup infrastructure architecture design.
  • Define the necessary operating model to ensure a smooth and immune backup and restoration
  • Strong knowledge in Storage technologies and products.
  • Develops storage tiering architecture to store hot data in performance tiers and cold data in cheap storage

Cloud Resources Management:

  • Advanced understanding of Cloud Technologies.
  • Assesses on-prem workloads and qualifies certain workloads to migrate to the Cloud where feasible and commercially viable
  • Defines Operating Model to monitor Cloud Resources and integration between On-Prem and Cloud Resources

Capacity Planning:

  • Monitor data center capacity and plan for future expansion or upgrades as needed.
  • Manage resource allocation efficiently.

Environmental Monitoring:

  • Monitor the data center environment, ensuring optimal temperature, humidity, and power levels are maintained.
  • Manage cooling and power systems to prevent overheating and outages.
  • Develops necessary monitoring to capture Carbon footprint. Develop plans to reduce carbon emissions

Security and Compliance:

  • Implement and enforce data center security policies.
  • Ensure compliance with relevant regulations and standards for data protection and privacy.

Required Skills & Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field.
  • Minimum 10 years’ experience in similar roles.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a keen attention to detail.
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to work collaboratively with cross-functional teams.
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About Akkodis

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