Offers “Dxc Technology”

Expires soon Dxc Technology

Infrastructure Architect/Solution Designer

  • Chorley (Lancashire)

Job description


·  Job Description:

About DXC Technology

DXC Technology (DXC: NYSE) is the world’s leading independent, end-to-end IT services company, helping clients harness the power of innovation to thrive on change. Created by the merger of CSC and the Enterprise Services business of Hewlett Packard Enterprise, DXC Technology serves nearly 6,000 private and public sector clients across 70 countries.  The company’s technology independence, global talent and extensive partner network combine to deliver powerful next-generation IT services and solutions. DXC Technology is recognised among the best corporate citizens globally.

Summary

The Infrastructure architect is responsible for co-coordinating the technical design and solution . The candidate will be required to provide technical guidance to both clients and project teams to ensure alignment with the existing standards, strategies and compliance with the Technology Roadmap.

As well as consulting with the individual infrastructure groups within the company to ensure operational supportability and acceptance for all new projects.

Solution Designers look forward to align projects with the key strategic deliverables.

Solution Designers drive architectures that utilize  managed service platform, and when appropriate design bespoken solutions that meet all the current and anticipated future IT requirements of the organization.

The key objectives of this role are as follows :

• Working within a infrastructure team, you will be involved in the development eview of infrastructure designs for multiple business groups and projects.

• A key part of this role is being able to understand the project’s requirement from the provided architecture documentation, gather the operational requirements and detail how the solution will be deployed, highlighting any impact to operations and standards. Each design should demonstrate how the proposed infrastructure is fit for purpose based upon these requirements.

Responsibilities

Review and assist clients as necessary for each submission including the following activities:

• Provide technical application and infrastructure guidance for projects, ensuring alignment and with the existing standards

• Working with the development and projects teams to gather an application development project’s operational and infrastructure requirement

• Evaluation of different options and opportunities to leverage shared environments and virtualization by using in-house managed services

• Ensure compliance with the Technology Roadmap for each project

• Support team members as necessary in designing appropriate infrastructure solutions

• Liaise with business lines and individual technical groups of all corporate levels to own and resolve issues related to a project’s technical design

• Ensure that all required requests appropriately document the proposed solutions

• Ensure technical design documentation remains up-to-date

• Driving continuous improvement using client feedback

Job Requirements

Essential Professional and Technical Skills:         

• Excellent communication skills required (written & verbal)

• Experience in managing technical and business relationships

• Strong analysis, problem solving and decision making

• Self-discipline and works well within a team or individually

• Willing to accept/take responsibility and problem ownership

• Broad knowledge of the operational and technical architectures within the company and of suppliers where appropriate

• Ability to provide direction and vision both within and outside area of responsibility

• Strong influencing, negotiation and team building skills and the ability to influence outside scope of responsibility

• Network technologies for implementation of connectivity with third parties

• Certified knowledge/experience in administrating UNIX-like operating systems

Preferable Technical Skills:         

Awareness and previous Design experience of following is required and in-depth knowledge or experience within them would be advantageous:

• UNIX/LINUX Platform

• Wintel Platform,

• Virtualization (such as VMware, Solaris Containers)

• Database Architectures (such as SQL Server or Oracle)

• SAN Technologies (including Disaster Recovery solutions)

• Clustering (Such as MSCS, VCS)

• Network Infrastructure design and policies

DXC Technology is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, race, colour, religious creed, national origin, citizenship, marital status, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, or genetic information. DXC's commitment to diversity and inclusive selection practices includes ensuring qualified long-term unemployed job seekers receive equal consideration for employment. 

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