SENIOR IT ARCHITECTURE SPECIALIST

SUMMARY:
SENIOR IT ARCHITECTURE SPECIALIST

POSITION INFO:

My Client is looking for a Senior IT Architecture Specialist who will responsible for leading and coordinating Infrastructure and business projects from a technology architecture perspective, conceptualising architectural approaches, developing and validating both on premise and cloud architecture and high level solution design against business requirements, best practices, and guiding and mentoring operational teams on the organisations Enterprise Architecture Framework and methodologies.

Candidate will be accountable for the architectural design, implementation, maintenance and operational activities for the following technologies and supporting systems and solutions: Microsoft based technologies, Security based solutions and technologies, Monitoring based solutions, Communications and messaging technologies, Microsoft Azure Cloud Infrastructure, Virtualisation technologies, Mobile solutions and hardware and storage based technology.

Experience and Qualifications:

Qualfications required:

• Grade 12 or equivalent NQF level 4 qualification
• B degree OR relevant technology advanced diploma at NQF level 7
• Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
• Microsoft Exchange Certification
• Azure Certified Administrator
• Azure Certified Architect
• O365 Administrator
• ITIL v.3 or 4
• COBIT

 Experience required:

• Minimum 8 - 10 years in senior technical specialist role
• Minimum 5 years Microsoft technology and solutions design experience

Knowledge of the following:

• Microsoft Active Directory
• Microsoft Exchange.
• Server architecture and design.
• Virtualisation Concepts (Hyper-V / VMware)
• Citrix Virtual Apps
• Linux Operating Systems
• Microsoft Applications and Architecture (SCCM, WSUS).
• Windows Server Operating Systems
• IBM Systems and server architecture.
• Solutions design.
• Microsoft cloud computing
• Technical experience in infrastructure design including private and public cloud, networking, virtualization, identity, security and storage.

 Essential certifications required

• Extensive cloud experience and must be Azure certified
• MCSE certified
• Microsoft Exchange Certification
• Azure Certified Administrator
• Azure Certified Architect  

Essential knowledge of the following required:

• Microsoft Active Directory
• Microsoft Exchange
• Server Architecture and Design
• Virtualisation Concepts (Hyper-V / VMware)
• Windows Server Operating Systems
• Solutions design.
• Microsoft cloud computing
• Technical experience in infrastructure design including private and public cloud, networking, virtualization, identity, security and storage.

Key Responsibilities:

• Microsoft Exchange and messaging solutions
• MS Teams / Skype for Business
• Windows Server Operating Systems
• Internet PROXY services
• Anti-Virus
• Virtualisation
• Microsoft patching
• Information Security and compliance
• Reporting and trend analysis
• Microsoft architecture and solution design
• Project management
• Cloud administration and implementation
• Defining new cloud strategy solutions
• Cloud security
• IaaS, BaaS, SaaS, MaaS, PaaS
• Azure Administration
• Azure Development
• Azure Security Engineering
• Messaging Administration
• Cloud Storage
• Virtualization
• Enterprise Administration

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