AddressEnterprise Infrastructure Architect, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Our client is one of the most profitable companies in the world, as well as amongst the top five global companies by market capitalization and is seeking an Enterprise Infrastructure Architect, to oversee the companys enterprise compute and storage strategies. This includes planning, budgeting and precuring the right infrastructures for the right platforms and applications. You will be overlooking the technology and defining the roadmaps for each specific environment in the Enterprise Infrastructure. Enterprise infrastructure will include the server farm, on-prem cloud, storage systems, AI environment and backup and archive environments.
The position will also include financial duties like budgeting and calculating TCO/ROI for the planned procurement projects. Furthermore, supervising each procurement deployment with operation teams.
Finally, you will act as consultant to the organization by continuously researching and studying the latest trends and issues. You will drive enterprise organizational alignment to ensure successful Enterprise Infrastructure roadmaps, adoption, security, governance, and risk management is adhered to.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Define the Enterprise Infrastructure strategy and roadmap
- Work on requirements gathering, capacity planning and workloads forecasting
- Analyze and optimize the production applications
- Handle the infrastructure budgeting and financials
- Handle the Infrastructure Architecting
- Plan, execute and manage hardware and appliances procurements projects
- Work with operation teams on the resource utilization and chargeback modules
- Work with leading OEMs and technology providers
- Define and drive PoC initiatives with end-users and technical teams
- Work and collaborate with multiple teams
- Consistently looking for the new technology trends in CPU, GPU, cloud solutions and storage services
Minimum Requirements
As a successful candidate you will hold a Bachelor degree or higher in Computer Science or similar
You will have a deep knowledge in cloud native applications and container orchestration solutions, OpenShift, DevOps, VMware, MLOps and CI/CD and storage system and NFS, SMB, iSCSI and S3 protocols
You will also have 15 years experience in infrastructure budgeting and TCO/ROI calculations, backup and archive solutions and data centers and facility requirements
Working environment
Our client attracts high-performing professionals who are drawn by the challenging and rewarding professional, technical and industrial opportunities and are remunerated accordingly.
Their people work on truly world-scale projects, supported by investment in capital and technology that is second to none.
Key benefits:
- Competitive remuneration
- Full relocation package, remote work is not available, successful candidates must be prepared and able to relocate to Dhahran.
- Company-provided accommodation in an expat gated community
- Complimentary medical healthcare (via Johns Hopkins)
- Complimentary schooling / education assistance
- Generous vacation balance + travel allowance
- Access to excellent recreational facilities
