Staff Infrastructure Architect

General Electric ,
Bristol, Bristol
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**Role Summary:** Works on multiple projects as a technical expert or internal consultant. Works on projects for components of the domain. Works either multiple technical or functional domains. Participates in the domain technical and business discussions relative to future architect direction. Coaches and mentors team members. **Essential Responsibilities:** Assists in the analysis, design and development of a roadmap and implementation based upon a current vs. future state in a cohesive architecture viewpoint. Gathers and analyzes data and develops architectural requirements at project level. Participates in the Infrastructure architecture governance model. Supports the development of software, data, and technology. Contributes to the designs and deployment of infrastructure solutions meeting standardization, consolidation, TCO, security, regulatory compliance and application system qualities, for different businesses. Researches and evaluates emerging technology, industry and market trends to assist in project development and/or operational support activities. **Qualifications/Requirements:** + Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or in "STEM" Majors (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) or equivalent knowledge or experience + Significant experience working on infrastructure projects + Excellent customer facing communications skills + Ability to create documentation for processes and procedures (creating KBs, whitepapers, topology diagrams) + Hyper-V/VMWare Certification + Legal authorization to work in the U.K. is required. Employment visas will not be sponsored, now or in the future, for this role. + Any offer of employment is conditioned upon the successful completion of a background check. + Must be willing to travel. + Must be willing to work out of an office located in UK.Applications from job seekers who require sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. However, non-EU/EEA candidates may not be appointed to a post if a suitably qualified, experienced and skilled EU/EEA candidate is available to take up the post, as the employing body is unlikely, in these circumstances, to satisfy the Resident Labour Market Test. For further information please visit the UK Border Agency website at **Desired Characteristics:** Technical Expertise: + Experience working in cloud environment such as Azure. + Experience with tools like perforce and GitHub for source code configuration and CI Tools such as Jenkins. + Experience understanding the virtual machine technologies such as VMware and Hyper-V. + Experience in server maintenance and backup strategies in a 24/7 environment. + Experience establishing and controls systems access and security. + Experience maintaining and testing disaster recovery plans. + Have a solid understanding of the underlying infrastructure needed to run a large distributed web application + Can break down problems and estimate time for development tasks and make basic technology choices based on experience + Agile/Scrum experience preferred. + Strong understanding of firewalls, load balancers and networking concepts. + Experience working with vulnerability/security tools. + Networking Certification desired. + Demonstrates awareness about competitors and industry Leadership: + Can take ownership of small tasks and deliver without supervision while using their discretion to seek help when necessary + Voices opinions and presents clear rationale. Uses data or factual evidence to influence. + Recognizes collaborative behavior and participates in collaborative activitiesPersonal Attributes: + Uses critical thinking skills and disciplined approaches to help leaders and leadership teams resolve issues and define solutions. Evangelizes and contributes to the GE standards for critical thinking best practices and methodologies across the enterprise. Defines new critical thinking methods. Engages with external thought-leaders and communities on analytical and critical thinking methodologies. + Excellent communication skills and the ability to interface with senior leadership and customers with confidence and clarity. + Evangelizes the notion that anything worth doing takes repeated effort and failure. Drives the organization toward a continued excitement of attaining the vision and goal in the face of resistance. + Innovates and integrates new processes and/or technology to significantly add value to GE. Identifies how the cost of change weighs against the benefits and advises accordingly. Proactively learns new solutions and processes to address seemingly unanswerable problems. + Adapts to new environments and changing requirements. Pivots quickly as needed. When coached, responds to need & seeks info from other sources **About Us:** GE (NYSE:GE) drives the world forward by tackling its biggest challenges. By combining world-class engineering with software and analytics, GE helps the world work more efficiently, reliably, and safely. GE p

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