Cloud / Infrastructure Architect

Position Description:

Recognised as one of the world's largest IT and business consulting firms, CGI has offices across Australia, supporting local public and private sector clients to solve real business problems. Life at CGI is based on ownership, teamwork, respect and belonging. Here you'll develop your skills, share your insights and reach your full potential.

Reporting to the Delivery Director, the Cloud / Infrastructure Architect role bridges the gap between the solution architect, development team, business team, and project/service management. You will define, validate, and promote the right infrastructure to satisfy business requirements, whilst holding responsibility for delivering growth and change activity.

It's an exciting time to join the team as we have plans to grow and expand this area of the business in the coming years. The role would suit somebody with broad Infrastructure knowledge, Azure or other public cloud design experience, and who is looking to grow in an Architect role with a company focused on career development.

We offer flexible work and a hybrid work environment to promote work-life balance. The work schedule is dependent on client demand but we ask for a minimum of 2 days in the CGI office / client site.

Your future duties and responsibilities:

• Technical authority for the Infrastructure Team
• Define, validate, and promote the best-fit infrastructure for a bid, a deal, or a project
• Set and manage stakeholder expectations regarding infrastructure
• Assess current and emergent technology, advising on value and performance
• Develop relationships with infrastructure product vendors
• Align the technology with the business and customer goals, identifying benefits and risk mitigation approaches associated with the proposed solution
• Apply appropriate technical standards
• Ensure infrastructure risks are managed, in particular non-functional requirements, including availability, scalability, and performance
• Support formal and informal technical reviews to ensure the quality of the infrastructure solution design and delivery
• Own the list of infrastructure concerns and architectural decisions and contribute to the technical risk register
• Coordinate plans and actions with project managers in Waterfall and Agile methodologies to make the best use of available resources, including specialists such as service architects
• Own collated infrastructure effort estimates and costs from teams, subcontractors, and suppliers for one or more sub-systems
• Support the development of team members by knowledge sharing and mentoring
• Participate in the weekly roster and support for ad-hoc out-of-hours requests.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role:

• Demonstrated experience working with public and private cloud (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS) and platforms (Linux/Windows)
• Broad knowledge of Infrastructure and Cloud Architecture such as Cloud provisioning and orchestration, Servers (Linux and Wintel), backups, storage, networks, databases & containerisation
• Knowledge of Azure is highly desirable with a willingness to develop skills in other cloud architectures
• The ability to create risk and cost-based solutions to satisfy complex work requests
• Strong organisational skills; keep track of multiple, complex time-critical activities; attention to detail
• The ability to work effectively with remote and virtual teams
• The ability to work with technical and business stakeholders with a strong customer focus
• Full permanent work rights for Australia.

Why work for CGI?

Make a difference

From utilities and cyber security to government and financial services, we provide high end IT and business consulting to the world's most vital and exciting sectors. We're proud to partner with our clients to bring real business value and contribute to their success by delivering practical innovation that helps them meet their goals.

Your work is what you make it.

We provide a working environment where our members are empowered to shape their careers and take on new responsibilities. As owners, we have the opportunity to drive our careers, forge meaningful relationships with our clients, and benefit from a job well done.

We enjoy what we do

As owners, we're invested in creating an environment where we enjoy working together and learning from each other. We work with teams from all across the world and celebrate our members' unique differences. We thrive on building strong relationships with our fellow members and supporting each other to develop professionally and achieve our potential.

Great benefits and work-life balance

We strongly believe that work-life balance is crucial to our success and the success of our members. At CGI, a positive work-life balance is encouraged and supported. We offer flexible work wherever possible and invest in benefits and services that are truly valued by our members, such as our world leading health and wellbeing program, Oxygen.

We are proud to be a Work180 endorsed employer for all women.

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Skills:

• Linux
• MS SQL Server
• Wintel/Windows Server

What you can expect from us:

Insights you can act on

While technology is at the heart of our clients' digital transformation, we understand that people are at the heart of business success.

When you join CGI, you become a trusted advisor, collaborating with colleagues and clients to bring forward actionable insights that deliver meaningful and sustainable outcomes. We call our employees "members" because they are CGI shareholders and owners, and, as owners, we enjoy working and growing together to build a company we are proud of. This has been our Dream since 1976, and it has brought us to where we are today-one of the world's largest independent providers of IT and business consulting services.

At CGI, we recognize the richness that diversity brings. We strive to create a work culture where everyone belongs, and we collaborate with clients in building more inclusive communities. As an equal opportunity employer, we empower all our members to succeed and grow. If you require an accommodation at any point during the recruitment process, please let us know. We will be happy to assist.

Ready to become part of our success story? Join CGI-where your ideas and actions make a difference.