Position Name – Infrastructure Architect

Type of hiring – Fulltime

Location – Ottawa, ON (Onsite)

Job Description:

PURPOSE OF JOB

• The Infrastructure Architect will lead the architecture and design of IT infrastructure essential for the development, encompassing both datacenters and Cloud environments.
• This role involves managing strategy deliverables, documentation and final design in collaboration with the existing team. Network Architect, and Cloud Architect to ensure a robust and scalable infrastructure.
• The Infrastructure Architect will own the overall IT infrastructure design.
• The Infrastructure Architect will be required to ensure that current and evolving IT resource requirements are captured. tracked and analyzed as well as costed. They will be required to engage with stakeholders on a regular basis and be able to present and defend design decisions at a both technical and financial level.
• Candidates must live in the Ottawa area or be willing to relocate to Ottawa.
• Candidates must be willing to be onsite in the office at least 4-5 days per week.

Key Responsibilities:

• Establish hardware standards, standard vendors, and hardware support models across various datacenters.
• Work with stakeholders to establish actual resource requirements, forecast incremental growth of resource requirements over time, and prepare cost estimates.
• Assist the datacenter engineering team with rack layouts, cooling. and power models.
• Collaborate with other architects to develop a comprehensive design based on established requirements for Lightspeed, ensuring both availability and security.
• Document the overall design of the hardware and related Basic Infrastructure Services (BIS) required for Operations, as well as any automation for IaC (Infrastructure as Code).
• Assist in the development of build books for IT Infrastructure.

EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED

• University degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or related stream.
• Must have at least 7 years of experience in the installation, configuration and operation of data center based environments including servers, storage and networking
• Must have at least 5 years of experience in building out on-premise, secure data center based hardware clusters (network, servers and storage)
• Must have at least 5 years of experience in design. building and managing enterprise networks including network switches, firewalls and related monitoring
• Proven experience in the deployment and operation of Cloud-based infrastructure is required.
• Proven experience in the deployment and operation of hypervisors (Vmware, KVM) is required

DECISION MAKING & SUPERVISION:

• The incumbent will own the IT infrastructure design and architecture. They will be required to make and defend any decisions or assumption regarding the IT infrastructure design.
• This role has no direct reports but will work and interact with multi-disciplinary engineering and IT teams.

WORKING CONDITIONS:

• Ability to travel between 3 sites in the Ottawa-Gatineau area is required (<10%)
• Ability to travel to an alternate data centre is required