Enterprise Infrastructure Architect, Dhahran, Saudi ArabiaOur 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