Infrastructure Solutions Architect

6 months ago

Bellville, South Africa Sanlam Full time

**Who are we?**

Sanlam Group Technology is responsible for the provision of a digitally enabled technology service as a group COE, drive business and transformation and provide group-wide digital and data architecture. We operate the various technology platforms and shared services, ensure Cyber and Information Security resilience, and act as technology governance and risk orchestrator for technology across Sanlam.

**What will you do?**
- As the Infrastructure Solutions Architect, your role will entail providing infrastructure architecture related services to our IT and business community. As a champion for innovation and change, you will provide technical guidance based on established patterns and solution designs taking lead from the Principle and Senior E2E architects. You will work in conjunction with Datacentre Service Line Managers, Enterprise, Solution and Domain Architects to facilitate a robust, supportable and enterprise grade solution based on best practices and sound architecture principles while advocating for sharing, consolidation, reusability and cost saving opportunities. The role will also encompass a technical support function, providing operational support for planning, commissioning, testing, optimising, analysing and diagnosing problems specific to infrastructure services.**What will make you successful in this role?**
- Design and maintain infrastructure solution architecture overviews and diagrams.
- Provide technical consultancy to service line managers and IT architects.
- Present and obtain solution design approval at relevant architecture or quotation forums.
- Determine sequence of events for infrastructure changes and reduce impact on business.
- Design and present infrastructure solution overviews and their associated quotations.
- Complete infrastructure due diligence exercises for new business client take-on projects.
- Logging and coordination of infrastructure related changes across multiple teams.
- Drafting of proposed billing models and partner with the finance team for implementation.
- Consult service line managers during priority incidents to ensure quick resolution.
- Architect and implement highly available solutions that can also be utilised in a disaster.
- Verify that service provider baseline architectures are up to date.
- Complete the end-of-life infrastructure hardware replacement quotations.
- Complete functional testing of deployments to ensure implementation aligns to architecture design.
- Qualification- Grade 12
- Relevant IT Diploma or Degree will be an advantage
- Hardware Certified Engineer
- VMWare Certified Engineer
- Relevant accredited courses or IT certifications (A+ & N+ & S+)
- Recommended certifications:

- Microsoft Certified Engineer
- Linux Certified Engineer
- Storage Certified Engineer
- Post Matric Qualification
- MS Visio or Draw.io experience
- Togaf or Zachman Framework
- Project Management
- ITIL

**Experience**:

- 10 years’ relevant work experience

**Knowledge**:

- Architecture principles and frameworks
- Data Centre Services
- VMware, Windows and Linux
- Storage, Backup
- Server concepts and technologies
- Disaster Recovery
- High Availability
- Clustering Concepts
- Datacentre networking and routing
- Security solution principles
- Application hosting
- Auto-provisioning and deprovisioning
- Private cloud concepts and services
- Hybrid cloud concepts and services
- Understanding of financial principles

**Personal Attributes**
- Plans and aligns - Contributing through others- Manages complexity - Contributing independently- Nimble learning - Contributing strategically- Self-development - Contributing independently- Tech savvy - Contributing independently- Customer focus - Contributing independently**Build a successful career with us**
- We’re all about building strong, lasting relationships with our employees. We know that you have hopes for your future - your career, your personal development and of achieving great things. We pride ourselves in helping our employees to realise their worth. Through its five business clusters - Sanlam Fintech, Sanlam Life and Savings, Sanlam Investment Group, Sanlam Allianz, Santam, as well as MiWay and the Group Office - the group provides many opportunities for growth and development.**Core Competencies**
- Being resilient - Contributing through others- Collaborates - Contributing through others- Cultivates innovation - Contributing through others- Customer focus - Contributing through others- Drives results - Contributing through others**Turnaround time**Our commitment to transformation**

The Sanlam Group is committed to achieving transformation and embraces diversity. This commitment is what drives us to achieve a diverse, inclusive and equitable workplace as we believe that these are key components to ensuring a thriving and sustainable business in South Africa. The Group's Employment Equity plan and targets will be considered as part of the selection process.

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