Infrastructure Architect

**Location**:Zürich

**Contract**:Permanent, Full-time

**Travel**:Yes, up to 20% mostly in Europe

**Key Responsibilities**
- Designing infrastructure solutions
- Systematically collecting, documenting and understanding stakeholders needs and translate them into IT infrastructure solutions
- Drive technical and business discussions which are depending on IT infrastructure
- Assist and participate in infrastructure and other IT projects
- Aligning solutions with business goals and strategies

**Standardize**
- Define infrastructure standards where meaningful to ensure maximum cost efficiency, simplified operations and robust IT services
- Ensure business and IT needs regarding IT infrastructure are captured and aligned with the relevant standards
- Enforce adherence to architectural standards/principles, global product-specific guidelines, design standards, governance

**Evaluate & test new technologies**
- Anticipate business needs help Constellium IT to be ready for them
- Evaluate new and emerging technologies, services, tools, and cloud vendors for innovative new capabilities to guide business and technology decisions
- Prepare IT infrastructure for future needs by collaborating closely with the different stakeholders

**Ideal Profile**
- Natural Leader. Previous team management experience is required
- Abilities to collaborate effectively in a complex matrix organization
- Strong technological leadership skills
- Experience in proposing technology solutions and providing convincing business cases
- Strong skills in designing holistic infrastructure & security solutions which consider technical, organizational, operational and process aspects
- Ability to write architectural design documents or review design documents provided by others
- Good communicator in international and globally distributed team
- Abilities to “sell” solutions and convince stakeholders
- Experience in IT architecture frameworks such as TOGAF
- Up to 8 years of experience in designing and operating infrastructure & security services
- Industry certifications in the field of IT Infrastructure, networking and security
- ITIL Certification
- Very solid understanding of common network technologies, protocols and solutions (in particular Cisco SD-WAN, Cisco DNA and CheckPoint)
- Very solid understanding of common hosting, operating systems, storage and virtualization solutions (in particular Microsoft operating systems and infrastructure services, VMWare, vSAN, Veeam etc.)
- Solid understanding for IT security including network security (firewalls, IPS, IDS, VPN, proxies), system security (hardening, malware prevention), compliance (SOX, NIST, GDPR) as well as authentication and authorization.