Responsibilities
- Analyze, plan and develop requirements and standards in reference to scheduled projects
- Work with system architect and pre-sales team to implement IT/OT systems and network infrastructure solutions in on-premise, cloud/GCC or hybrid environments and be able to articulate and document the solution
- Ensure the proposed systems meet project technical requirements
- Work, liaise and lead inter-disciplinary technical team and stakeholders to design, implement and verify solutions to meet project requirements for performance, availability, resilience, security, manageability, maintainability and compliance
- Ensure the project User Acceptance Tests are conducted successfully
- Develop technical implementation timeline with critical path that complements project management schedule
- Understand implications of design changes and manage impact to technical implementation and timeline
- Determine and define clear deliverables, roles and responsibilities of technical engineers in a project to ensure all are actively working toward established milestones and ensure work is completed on time.
- Attend customer meetings, report regularly on progress and monitor project schedule.
- Liaise with customers/consultants/project managers concerning approval of designs, reviews, progress of work, problem solving, etc.
- Hold regular technical team meetings to determine progress and address any questions or challenges regarding projects
- Research and evaluate hardware and software technology options and weigh the cost/benefit analysis
- Collaborate with respective key vendors/partners to design and review the proposed solution architecture in accordance with standards and policies.
- Resolve any technical difficulties and other problems that may arise in the project
- Conduct Root Cause Analysis of system issues and failures and recommend solutions.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT or a related subject with at least 10 years of working experience in IT projects.
- Strong understanding and good knowledge in IT system infrastructure solutions.
- Conversant in multiple system products and solutions including server, database, storage, virtualization / cloud infrastructure, backup solutions, automation etc.
- Knowledge and hands-on experience in:Windows Server OS, Linux OS in a virtual environment
Virtualisation and Hypervisors including Nutanix
VPN, firewall appliances
Load balancers, network switches/routers
Network Monitoring (e.g. Solarwinds products)
Data Protection (e.g. Veritas)
Vulnerability Assessment (e.g. Nessus)
Identify and Access Management (e.g. CyberArk) - Certification in any of the above products are advantageous. Example: Dell EMC Certified Professional, Microsoft Certification, Redhat, VMWare, HCI, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Professional (GCP), Hitachi Data Systems (HDS), Redhat Ansible, CCNA, CCDA, CCNP
- Experience in large scale system integration environment preferred.
- Proven analytical and problem-solving abilities.
- Strong organizational and leadership skills
- Good presentation skills
- Excellent interpersonal and customer interface skills, and engage with partners, stakeholders and team members.
- Self-driven and motivated individual with keen attention to detail
- Able to effectively prioritize tasks in a high-pressure environment
