Sr. Infrastructure Architect to work on various modernization initiatives for our Public Sector client - RFS25156

Duration: 1 year contract (with chance of extension)

Location: Hybrid (2-3x/week) - North York, ON

Job Responsibilities:

• Develops and maintains the infrastructure architecture and associated standards, policies and guidelines; ensures that the architecture ‘concepts’ are communicated and accepted within the enterprise.
• Implements and maintains the infrastructure architecture from top to bottom to ensure that performance is optimal and not compromised and aligns to the overall strategy, roadmap and selected solutions.
• Provides technical leadership to the infrastructure team through coaching and mentorship.
• Collects and maintains documentation across various Technology components and develops an up-to-date repository of technology documentation. Accountable to develop and maintain Solution design blueprint.
• Conducts current state assessment on all Technology components such as Platform [incl. Storage], Network, Collaboration tools, Application, IT Service Management, Integration, Security and End point devices [ Incl. iOT and OT]
• Partners with Principal Architect, SME and Vendor to develop Future State Technology Roadmap.
• Partners with Vendors and Infra [operations] team for complete infrastructure design, systems analysis, and technical solution design documentation, testing and maintenance of data center operation, network & voice communication.
• Participates in proof of concepts to assist in defining technology direction and enabling business strategy.
• Provide third level support for incidents and problems in designated areas of expertise if required.
• Coordinates with project teams as necessary to decompose the architectural solution design into lower levels of details for development and testing; guides infrastructure team efforts towards successful project delivery.
• Proposes and implements industry best practices, innovation and continuous improvement.
• Assesses opportunities for network and infrastructure and process improvement and prepare documentation of rationale to share with team members and other affected parties.

Must haves:

• 10+ years of experience as an Infrastructure Architect
• 4+ years of experience in Azure architecture
• 8+ years of experience conducting network assessment, end point devices [iOT, OT, Workstations, Servers, Mobile devices], Building Disaster Recovery, Assessing backup, restore, archive and storage, Identity and access management platforms, Active Directory
• Experience migrating workload from Data Centre to Azure
• Familiarity with DNS, DHCP and other network services and has conducted Network assessment and has experience implementing network [F5 would be an added advantage]

Nice to haves:

• Canadian Criminal Record Check Level 1- Clearance Certificate
• Experience with Housing Management