Architect - Sr Director (10 Years of Experience)

Architect - Sr Director (10 Years of Experience)

Ness Digital Engineering

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Ness is a digital engineering company providing advisory & scaled services for digital business transformation, leveraging digital transformation technologies.

Ness Digital Engineering is seeking a dynamic professional with 10+ years of experience to fill the role of Architect. In this pivotal position, you will lead the charge in steering the AWS cloud, VMWare Infrastructure, and DevSecOps services at Ness, with a primary focus on next-generation product innovation, core competency enhancement, and capability building across diverse geographical locations.

Job Requirements :

• Architect global enterprise networking operations and shared infrastructure data center management on AWS and VMware.
• Understand the gaps in current state architecture and prepare a blueprint for future state architecture in the areas of network infrastructure, security management, and shared infrastructure.
• Setup enterprise level standards for network infrastructure and security standards.
• Technically oversee the design, implementation, and maintenance of security measures across the organization’s networks, infrastructure, and applications.
• Ensure success in helping customers accelerate their adoption of our compute, network, storage, and security services.
• Collaborate with other engineering teams, product owners, and stakeholders to ensure security and reliability requirements are integrated into all stages of the development lifecycle.
• Communicate effectively with senior management and other departments, providing regular updates on security and reliability initiatives and performance.
• Influence automation first mindset and promote automation in all areas of data center management, security management, infrastructure engineering, compliance reporting, and network automation.
• Promote use of DevOps / SRE / CI-CD / IAC Best Practices in network and infrastructure automation.
• Be a trusted advisor to customers and facilitate relationships with senior technical executives.
• Set clear goals and performance metrics for the technical teams, conducting regular technical reviews and providing constructive feedback.
• Ensure compliance with industry standards and regulatory requirements.
• Drive continuous improvement in operational processes and engineering practices to enhance system reliability.

Skills Required :

• 18+ years’ experience with global enterprise networking operations, data center management, Infrastructure Services in AWS and VMware.
• Relevant certifications such as AWS network certification or VMware Network and Security certifications.
• 10+ years of experience in designing network and workload isolation, network segmentation, network security policy definition, and network standards.
• 10+ years of experience in developing and executing strategies for improving security and reliability across all systems and services.
• 8+ years of experience in setting K8s using Rancher, AWS EKS, or similar services.
• At least 8+ years of experience in business continuity planning.
• 10+ years consulting / pre-sales experience to facilitate relationships with senior technical executives.
• 7+ years of experience in security engineering and / or site reliability engineering, with at least 3 years in a leadership role.
• 5+ years of experience in shared infrastructure services in AWS and VMware environments.
• Strong understanding of security principles, practices, and technologies.
• Proven experience with reliability engineering practices.
• Proven experience with DevOps practices such as CI-CD and Infrastructure as code.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills.

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