Apex Systems is a division of ASGN Incorporated, the 2nd largest IT and 3rd largest Clinical and Scientific staffing firm in the U.S. Apex earned Inavero’s Best of Staffing® Client Diamond Award and Best of Staffing Talent Award for providing superior service to our clients and job seekers. Apex Systems provides organizations with scalable IT staffing and talent management services. We complement our staffing solutions with deliverable-based consulting services that enables us to help organizations drive better business performance.
We are looking for a project delivery focused Infrastructure Architect to design and lead complex systems and network implementations required to support corporate operations. The individual will be responsible for researching and championing new relevant technologies, developing technical standards and creating / presenting technology roadmaps. This is a hands-on role that requires frequent travels to establish close collaboration with the operations/infrastructure/project teams.
- Establish and publish infrastructure architecture strategies, choices, and standards including the management of the performance, availability, capacity, compliance, and responsiveness of the delivered services.
- Responsible for researching, cost-justifying, recommending, and establishing current and future hardware architectures for all aspects of the company.
- Ensure that the performance, scalability, and security are optimized during the design of the infrastructure.
- Lead and track infra technical obsolescence, refresh and decommission.
- Contribute the end-to-end processes on global IT infrastructure equipment procurement recommendations.
- Participate in the design review process and support the overall Enterprise Architecture Management process.
- Identify, document and promote best practices for infrastructure architecture and lead continuous improvement initiatives to drive higher efficiency and performance of datacenter services.
- Liaise within the corporate Enterprise Architecture Office for standardization of best practices, editing of infrastructure guidelines and design of reusable components.
- 5-10 years of experience in infrastructure / network architecture design and support.
- Practical and hands-on experience in infrastructure areas including network architecture, Microsoft Windows Server Platforms, virtualization platform including VMware, Cloud Computing (IaaS/PaaS/SaaS), data replication technologies, event monitoring and configuration management tools.
- Detail oriented
- Ability to travel 50% of his/her time
- Excellent communication with technical leaders
- Capable to establish trust based on outstanding technical expertise