Cloud Infrastructure Architect (Local to IL)

Company Description

Halo Group is a premier provider of IT talent. We place technology experts within
the teams of the world’s leading companies to help them build innovative
businesses that keep them one step closer to their customers and one step
ahead of the competition. We offer a meaningful work environment for
employees, attractive and interesting engagements for consultants, and cutting-edge
digital innovation for our customers.
We delight in helping our customers execute their digital vision. Big projects or
small, Halo Group knows that by combining the highest quality talent with our
unwavering support, we will become an invaluable extension of the team. Halo
Group's experienced consultants in Detroit, Atlanta and Dallas specialize in all
areas of product/project governance, UX/UI, multi-platform applications, quality
assurance/testing, cloud computing, and data analytics.
Since its inception, Halo Group has been recognized for numerous awards, including: 
- INC 5000
- Future 50
- 101 Best and Brightest
- Michigan 50 Companies to Watch
- Goldline Research - “Most Dependable Companies”
- Ernst & Young - “Entrepreneur of the Year” Finalist

Job Description :

Looking for an Infrastructure Architect to help them with moving datacentre to AWS Cloud, so experience setting up an infrastructure to the Cloud is key.

• Experience with infrastructure that support SaaS type applications and Managed Services is required.

• VMware experience is also desired. Virtualization, Converged and Hyper-Converged Infrastructure would be a plus.

• Will work on infrastructure solutions and operations.

• Experience working with vendors like AWS, Dell EMC (VCE), Hitachi, NetApp, VMware, Cisco, Avaya, Veritas.

• Experience with Hosted UC engineering and operations would be a plus.

• Application Platform services is a plus.

• End User Computing and Collaboration technologies is a plus.

• Infrastructure and Operations integration/centralization is a plus.

• Disaster Recovery (DR/BCP – Business Continuity Planning and Delivery) is a plus.

• Database platforms like Oracle, MS SQL, MySQL engineering and operations.

• Middleware Platforms like Oracle, Open Source engineering and operations.

• Unix, Linux, Wintel (Server OS) engineering and operations.

• Storage, Backup, Data protection engineering.

Moving datacentre to AWS and moving Banner database to cloud, going from onsite to cloud, build out datacentre to cloud. VMS Ware and Cisco, need someone to help implementing the plan that was that IDS helped build. Individual team that is being managed.

Infrastructure with demonstrated experience in migrating platforms to the Cloud. The candidate will be involved in assessing existing platforms, designing future state, and building transition in order to migrate both applications and infrastructure to the cloud. The role requires solid experience in cloud computing environments, hands on technical skills, passion and appetite to master new technologies, and excellent communication skills.

• Work collaboratively with project teams to implement the technology direction, vision, and strategy to enable Cloud technology adoption

• Implement and refine cloud future state architectures and roadmaps including architecture standards, guidelines, and industry best practices.

• Support development of new standards, stated directions, and guideline

• Assess application and data readiness for cloud technology adoption

• Assist in ensuring that cloud based systems are aligned to the architectural and security guidelines

• Experience architecting cloud infrastructures on Amazon Web Services (AWS) for small, medium scale and enterprise level applications.

H1b, US Citizens, GC, EAD and TN Permit.

Titles: Cloud Infrastructure Architect, Cloud Architect, Enterprise Cloud Architect 
Skills: Cloud, AWS, Amazon Web Services, SaaS, Vmware, Disaster Recovery,