Infrastructure Architect

Infrastructure ArchitectSan Francisco, CA12+ monthsMandatory Qualifications:10+ years as serving in an Enterprise, Solutions, or Infrastructure Architect capacity with extensive experience in designing distributed enterprise-level architectures for mission-critical systems.Ability to provide solutions in an environment involving multiple datacenters: an in-house datacenter, co-located datacenter, hosted datacenter, Software as a Service, and a future Cloud datacenter.Experience in large-scale web application architecture, design, development, deployment, and operations in a complex deployment environment.Experienced developing the technology solution requirements for customer request for proposals.Experience in managing architects, programmers, analysts, and testers in a variety of small to large-scale projects.Strong system analysis skills, experienced across the complete project lifecycle.Familiarity with virtualization technologiesStrong communications skills, having the ability to communicate well with all levels of staff -- both technical staff and executive management.Experience developing consensus with disparate groups, sometimes with competing agenda.Experience developing enterprise technical policies for management consideration.Desirable QualificationsPrior experience in public sector, preferably in state governmentExperience with multiple cloud technologies and cloud vendorsExperience developing cloud hosting requirements for organizations migrating to the cloudExperience with differing access control levels (ACL) per organizationCertification in MS Azure is a plusPrevious project management experience is a plusEducation: Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology.Certifications: Certification in MS Azure is a plus.RegardsSunil DamagallaWest Advanced Technologies, Inc