Infrastructure architect

Contract type: CDI

Welcome to Digital Solutions SA!

Founded in 2016 and located in the heart of the Jura, in Porrentruy, Digital Solutions SA helps companies and institutions face digital challenges through the integration of new technologies.

As an IT integrator and service provider, we help our customers to innovate and develop their new digital products.

We’re already present in Porrentruy, Basel, Lausanne, Geneva, Martigny and soon in Fribourg, Bern, Zurich and Delémont.

Combining agility, innovation and performance, we provide a team of highly qualified engineers tailored to the specific needs of each of our customers and prospects.

We are working on three areas:

  1. Integration and innovation
  2. Software development
  3. Robotic Process Automation

RESEARCH PROFILE: Infrastructure architect

  • Contract type: service rental
  • Occupancy rate: 80% to 100%.
  • Duration: indefinite, but not more than 5 years
  • Desired start date: November 2023

YOUR MISSIONS :

  • Participate in the development and design of master plan projects and programs for the Infrastructure Division
  • Be a driving force behind the development of the Disaster Recovery Plan in a large organization with distributed roles
  • Participate in technical and managerial meetings with infrastructure and IT security teams
  • Write the technical documents required for the progress and coherence of the elements implemented
  • Be able to challenge and propose technical solutions to respond to major risks
  • Participate in the necessary costing
  • Establish and support implementations and associated pilots
  • Monitor and ensure the execution of solution-related tests
  • Optimize the delivery of infrastructure services by proposing architectures and/or technological solutions
  • Minimizing infrastructure risks and applying internal control guidelines
  • Take charge of part of the service design activities described in the program strategy
  • Ensuring consistent implementation of existing and future architectures

QUALIFICATIONS :

  • Sense of teamwork
  • Technical coordination
  • Ability to share knowledge
  • Long autonomy
  • Provide input on technical choices and optimizations
  • Ability to support chosen options
  • Presentation to specialized committees

TRAININGS :

  • University Master’s degree in computer science or EPF engineering diploma or other training deemed equivalent

SKILLS :

Core competencies

  • Technical expertise in infrastructure architecture design, including the most popular solutions on the market:
    • Databases: Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MariaDB
    • Backup: TSM
    • Storage/NAS: ISILON, HITACHI, Brocade
    • Network: F5, Firewall
    • Virtualization: IBM PowerVM, KVM, VMware
    • Systems: AIX, Windows, RedHat
    • Cloud: VMware ARIA, Azure
    • Containers: OpenShift, Kubernetes
  • Strong writing skills, especially in technical and functional specifications. The job involves writing architecture files according to TOGAF methodology and Archimate architecture modeling language.

Additional skills

  • 10+ years’ experience in the design and technical implementation of infrastructure architectures in large organizations with a significant asset base.
  • Good analytical skills, particularly covering :
    • Solution mapping and associated communication flows
    • Metrology
    • Network and systems infrastructure sizing
    • Consideration of requirements and constraints (RPO, RTO, backups, obsolescence, licenses, legal constraints, etc.)
  • Good knowledge of supervision and ITSM solutions:
    • VMware vRealize Operations Manager (vROps)
    • Splunk
    • Nagios
    • OpsBridge
  • Good network skills
    • CISCO, F5, Check Point
    • Defining a PRA topology
    • Traffic optimization solutions (Riverbed, …)
    • Traffic simulation solutions
    • Traffic encryption solutions
  • HERMES methodology
  • Industrialize the collection of technical indicators (API REST, etc.)
  • BMC ITSM
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