Oracle Infrastructure Solution Architect

• Provide the Technological expertise to design and select the different components across multi technologies to deliver an infrastructure functional platform.
• Act as a design authority to articulate complex solutions for specific customer projects and drive the overall platform design strategy to deliver customer requirements
• Work in coordination with vendors to address required BOQs required for implementations where he will act as the Technical Design Authority for the project and post-delivery authority when a design defect is identified
• Lead an implementation team or 3rd parties focused in the delivery of project requirements assuring quality and right details on the documentation of all deliverables.
• Participate in customer workshops to collect requirements, present designs and prepare technical documentation as guidelines for the implementation teams (HLD or LLD)
• Ensure the integration and compatibility across all different components of the solution that will deliver the performance and capacity expected
• Define and supervise tests that prove right and timely implementations covering all customer requirements
• Participate in implementations and delivery activities as per the designs provided being part of delivery teams
• Represent the unit in technological forums and interlock with external stakeholders in what regards architectural and design of the infrastructure capabilities
• Learn continuously about latest technologies on cloud, virtualization, storage, backup, networking and security and act as a SME for implementation teams spreading knowledge and best practices

An Engineering or technical degree with additional education in IT Architecture for complex environments, cloud deployments or virtualized platforms
• More than 10 years of experience in designing complex Architecture for cloud and virtualized environments preferably in Cloud Service Providers, large corporate IT departments serving internal customers or Global IT Outsourcers
• Expertise and credited certifications in server environments preferably Oracle
• Expertise and experience in Oracle Engineered Systems such as Exadata, Exalogic or Exalytics from the infrastructure perspective
• Expertise and credited certifications in virtualization environments preferably in Oracle VM, Nutanix, VMware
• Expertise and credited certifications in Network and Security technologies linked to Cloud deployments and complex IT deployments based on main networking vendors (Cisco, Huawei,…)
• Expertise in designing storage and backup environments both in traditional and new virtualized environments. Recommended experience on Oracle, Nutanix, Rubrik
• Expertise on Oracle IAM and LDAP access control systems.
• Experience in Project Management and Service Management, PMI and ITIL V3 certifications will be a plus
• Expertise in Quality management for IT Services
• Proven leadership and ability to drive expert teams in IT infrastructure design
• Good communication skills and ability to deal with customers in service incidents and crises
• Experience in all aspects of Supplier Relationship Management
• Full command of English language. Arabic is highly considered