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SalaryWe are seeking an Enterprise Infrastructure Architect, to oversee the company's enterprise compute and storage strategies. This includes planning, budgeting and precuring the right infrastructures for the right platforms and applications. You'll 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
- 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
- Willing to Relocate to Saudi Arabia
- Currently Living/Working in Australia or New Zealand
- Permanent Employment on an Indefinite Term Employment Agreement.
- Company Incentive Plan: This is a broad-based annual and performance based incentive plan based on company and individual performance, base salary, and length of service during the plan year. The objective of this plan is to drive organizational performance, as well as, recognize and reward your contributions beyond the normal annual merit increases.
- Annual repatriation travel allowance: An annual cash payment that more than covers airfare costs to your home country. You have full flexibility to use this payment in any way you choose.
- Annual vacation: You can look forward to up to 38 calendar days of paid leave each year. In addition, you'll typically be granted between 9 and 11 days of national public holidays each year.
- Severance award: In accordance with the Saudi labor law, a severance award is payable by the company to employees who leave after two years or more of satisfactory service. The severance award is based on length of continuous service and final base pay. The severance award can be a substantial benefit for longer service employees.
- Education Assistance Plan: If you are hired on family status, you may be eligible to benefit from the company's excellent education assistance plan for dependent children. This may include the option for them to attend company's high quality private schools or to attend international schools in the local community.
- Quality housing in company communities or a rental assistance allowance: We have four communities in the Eastern Province where we provide quality accommodation in pleasant surroundings. Alternatively, employees may obtain housing in the local communities outside of the Company communities, for which we provide a rental assistance allowance.
- Free medical care: We provide medical care via our Johns Hopkins medical network or contracted hospitals and clinics. These facilities are among the finest in the Middle East.
- Free access to recreational facilities: You will have access to our extensive range of recreational facilities that include: private beaches, tennis courts, exercise gyms, swimming pools, golf courses, tennis and squash courts, and much more.
- Free scheduled transportation: Air-conditioned buses are provided free of charge for transportation within camp areas, to work locations, local shopping areas outside camp, the beach and our other communities.
- Voluntary Group Life and Accident Insurance: you may enrol in a voluntary program providing term life insurance and accidental death and dismemberment (AD&D) coverage equal to 12, 18, 24 or 30 times your monthly base salary. Favorable group rates keep the premium low.
- Short-term Disability: In the event you are unable to work due to illness or injury, short-term disability income benefits are provided. The benefit is 30 days full pay and 60 days at three-quarters pay, in any one year period.
- Death Benefit: Company pays an ex-gratia death benefit equal to 24 months base pay if death is from an industrial accident and 12 months base pay if death is non-industrial related.
- Career development: We recognize and value professional growth and achievement, so you'll have many opportunities to develop your career and expertise.
