Top Enterprise Infrastructure Executive jobs in Lake Charles, LA

• Must possess experience as an enterprise architect for a completed large-scale project
• Experience in different kind of infrastructure discovery tools with detailed understanding of service mapping, dependency mapping and upstream-downstream mapping
• Experience in using different migration tools and techniques (DoubleTake, PlateSpin, ASR, CloudEndure, VMware Convertor etc.)
• Strong understanding of Hybrid Cloud infrastructure and architecture with some mid-level knowledge around different workload types and their characteristics
• Must have undertaken the role of Technology Architect in a few projects
• Must have experience of architectures involving system planning, networking, operating systems, cloud, backup & archival, EMS, RPO/RTO management
• Must have experience of at least two projects involving transformation & migration
• Ability to cope in a technically complex and fast-changing environment, and to respond calmly and rationally to changing aspirations in a deadline-driven situation. 
• Must have experience in architecting Hybrid Cloud solution and exposure to Software Defined Datacenter 
• Industry certification like VMWare Certified Professional -- Data Center Virtualization (VCP-DCV) or EMC Data Center Architect(EMCDCA) / NSX / VCF / OpenStack /   – Data Center certified

• TOGAF Certified Enterprise Architect is desired
• ESXi, NSX, vSAN, VCF, KVM, Neutron, CEPH, OpenStack, Compute (Blade), SAN (IBM, DellEMC, HPE), NAS (NetApp, ISILON), Object, Backup (DellEMC, Veeam), Physical Hosting, OS (Win, Lin), DB (Oracle, SQL, DB2, MongoDB)

• English

• Lead for 15-20 team members

• Strong planning and organizing skills including the ability to manage several work streams simultaneously. 
• Excellent communication skills with a capacity to present, discuss and explain issues coherently and logically both in writing and verbally. 
• Understanding and experience to ensure that systems are documented and kept current. 
• Ability to work on design activities and assist with required data points
• Demonstrated ability to analyze business requirements mapped to technology trends so as to derive high level architecture
• Should possess extensive detailed working knowledge and acumen in the technology domains
• Enterprise architecture best practices, including, but not limited to, logical and physical architectures, network communications, operating systems, applications, data base servers, application servers, web servers, server consolidation, server network and storage performance, server and storage virtualization & capacity planning.

Area of responsibilities

Skill Level

• Shall be single point of contact and owner for the Technology and Architecture
• Develop deep understanding of existing architecture and deployment
• Manage architectural transformation
• Imbibe key architectural principles proposed by Customer and perform detailed design of Cloud, Virtualization, Network, Security, Tools, Storage, Servers, Backup & Replication architecture
• Responsible for creating or selecting the most appropriate architecture and technology to enable scalability, flexibility, agility, consolidation & optimization involving latest technology trends
• Manage architectural changes and ensure timely and accurate documentation of all key changes
• Business Continuity Planning (DR, RPO, RTO)
• Migration planning including service sequencing, cutover and rollback plans
• Responsible for successful deployment of new architecture 
• Responsible for migration execution till stabilization, sign-off and handover
• Operations Process documentation (Operational Manual)
• Foresee possible technological risks on the transformed DC and workout possible mitigation strategies