Infrastructure Operations Architect Vodafone

Key accountabilities and decision ownership:

1. Act as technical Pre-Sales Team for BRMs:

• Responsible for ensuring Technical and Financial advisory (i.e. Feasibility Analysis) to BRM in their Demand assessment, scoping and classification with Local Markets

2. Assess, scope and design (Low-Level Design) target solutions in strict collaboration with 3 delivery HUBs:

• Responsible for GF & LM E2E Solution Design, assess (technical) request categorization & GIANT support.

3. Provide Technical implementation support along project/ program life cycle:

• Collect and translate Infrastructure request requirement into a comprehensive solution design.
• Ensure alignment with Programme & Project Managers to make sure technical resources can build and implement the designed solutions on time and with respect to design quality standards and practices
• Ensure alignment with Tech Pillars to make sure simple demands will be handled by them E2E.

4. Consultancy-Interface to technical pillars, Customers & Product Management

Core competencies, knowledge, and experience:

Pre-Sales:

Expert knowledge of modern IT technologies: on-premise and/or in Public / Private Cloud within VCI Product Portfolio

o DRCC

o OCI

o CI

o VMWare

o Azure

o AWS

o GCP

o (future technologies tbd)

Advance knowledge of LAN, WAN, WLAN, Telephony, Storage & Backup, Configuration and administration of Firewalls, switches, routers

Ability to translate future-state business capabilities and requirements into solution architecture requirements

Design & Delivery:

Strong IT delivery management background with specific experience in infrastructure implementation

Low level infrastructure design practices, standards and governance & best practices within data security

Experience designing and supporting complex network solutions in a large organization

Communication & Way of Working

Strong communication and interpersonal skills, able to deal with customers and internal teams to deliver results

International experience and background in a complex business environment essential as well as ability to work across an international and distributed team

Must have technical / professional qualifications:

Minimum of 5 years of experience in at least two Infrastructure solution development disciplines, including technical or infrastructure architecture, network management, application development, middleware, database management or cloud development

Qualifications on working within Agile & Waterfall project methodologies

• Fluent English