Infrastructure Architect Job Opportunity in Ottawa

Job Title: Infrastructure Architect
Job Location: Ottawa, ON, Canada
Job Ref.: J0114-0482 
Company/Employer: The University of Ottawa
Job Type: Regular Full Time
Job Reports To: Senior Director, Infrastructure
Salary (Grade: NM2) Hiring salary range; $77,245-$96,556, Salary Range Max; $106,211
Computing and Communications Services - IT Infrastructure Services

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Job Description
Translates business requirements into technical network solutions by defining and supporting the roadmaps and technology architecture for the University’s network and network security infrastructure. Provides senior infrastructure architecture leadership and enterprise level consulting to develop a quality integrated and rationalized infrastructure environment.

Job Duties:
Responsible for the identification, architecture, development and implementation of secure IT solutions that support the enterprise’s business needs, identifying the most suitable infrastructure.
Provides IT solution architecture and design to ensure compliance with enterprise and security architecture directives.
Defines solutions standards and reference architectures for use by specific project teams in developing technical designs.

Reporting to the Senior Director, Infrastructure and Operations, and the Enterprise Architect, instructs, directs and reviews the work of infrastructure managers, and leads technical discussions with application development and quality assurance personnel to incorporate performance features at design, development and test stages. Work with the architecture team to ensure architecture strategy, principles and guidelines are reflected in all infrastructure projects.

Job Requirements:

• University degree in information systems, computer science, network technology, architectural technology or a related field
• Minimum eight years of IT strategy, and design consulting and architecture, experience supporting large scale server infrastructure systems in a multi-platform environment 
• Expert knowledge of network infrastructures including local, metropolitan and wide areas
• Expert knowledge of network security architecture
• Expert knowledge of storage area networks and convergence technologies
• Expert knowledge of server infrastructure architecture within an IT environment of multiple technologies or IT disciplines
• Knowledge of concepts, philosophies and tools behind the design of applications, information and underlying information technologies
• Experience in the planning and implementation of network security devices
• Experience in either a data centre or infrastructure solution design environment
• Experience in virtualization technologies, storage, Unix OS systems administration and Windows environments
• Experience in designing for accessibility, scalability and availability
• Experience in creating and maintaining good working relationships with vendors
• Ability to apply project management methods and processes to define, plan, cost, resource, track and ensure the accomplishment of targeted goals
• Ability to communicate technical concepts in a non-technical manner in both official languages
• Ability to proactively keep abreast of new and emerging technologies
• Bilingualism — English/French (spoken and written)

Key competencies required at the University of Ottawa:

• Planning: Organize in time a series of actions or events in order to realise an objective or a project. Plan and organize own work and priorities in regular daily activities.
• Initiative: Demonstrate creativity and initiative to suggest improvements and encourage positive results. Is proactive and self-starting. Show availability and willingness to go above and beyond whenever it is possible.
• Client Service Orientation: Help or serve others to meet their needs. This implies anticipating and identifying the needs of internal and external clients and finding solutions on how to meet them.
• Teamwork and Cooperation: Cooperate and work well with other members of the team to reach common goal(s). Accept and give constructive feedback. Able to adjust own behaviour to reach the goals of the team.

Note: This position is excluded from all union accreditation units. All applications will be considered equally. This posting may appear simultaneously on external websites.

Schedule with an average of 35hrs/week.

CODL certificates can be considered an asset. Don’t forget to add them to your resume.

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Deadline Date: 09/02/2014

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