Infrastructure Architect

Job Description

In this role you will be a Technical Leader, providing advice to senior decision makers and guiding our platform engineers as they enhance and maintain our World Class, web-based, Healthcare Platform.

Focusing on our Cloud - based infrastructure, you will perform several key tasks, including research and development, technical design and discovery, work preparation, code reviews and hands-on implementation.

To be suitable for this position, you should have significant prior experience working as an Infrastructure Architect or Senior level cloud platform engineer, on enterprise grade, web-based solutions.

Job Responsibilities:

• Technical leadership and implementation - You will be the go-to person for cloud infrastructure knowledge and expertise, working with both senior leaders and engineers to guide and build our solutions. We utilize a variety of technologies, serving both our customers and internal teams, and you will be the expert in those technologies, assisting engineers with day-to-day technical questions and helping them to deliver modern, fit-for-purpose results.
• Performing technical discovery and feasibility assessments - You will ensure proposed infrastructure engineering work is achievable, properly scoped and well understood. You will do this for Engineering driven projects, as well as for requests originating from other parts of the business.
• Researching, designing and communicating solutions - You will undertake research and design, either independently, or in collaboration with your colleagues via R&D projects, workshops and spike investigations. You will document technical designs and findings in an appropriate format, and you will communicate your proposals in a timely and effective way.
• Preparing and estimating work - You will prepare work packages for the projects you own. You will ensure these are properly refined and estimated prior to commencement of work. You will also provide early, high-level estimates for certain technical projects, to assist with planning and prioritization.
• Defining and updating internal platform engineering standards - You will be expected to stay up to date with industry best practices so that you can make recommendations and proposals for the department to adopt. You will maintain our standards documentation and communicate these to the wider department.
  
  

Job Requirements

• You must be highly proficient in a broad range of technologies which form the basis of our customer facing and internal infrastructure. These include, but are not limited to:
• Infrastructure as code and configuration management tools (Terraform, Ansible) which provision our cloud-based systems in AWS.
• Containerization tools (Kubernetes and Docker) which are used by our CI pipelines, development environments, and certain production systems. We intend to move to a fully containerized architecture in future.
• Standard web application components including load balancers, web servers and databases. Our core application tech stack is Nginx, MySQL and PHP, running on Linux (CentOS and Rocky).
• Supporting software and tools including Python, Bash and Git.
• We use AWS as our cloud provider so you must have deep experience working with AWS services and tools.
• Very good understanding of web application infrastructure – Our architects need to be accustomed to working with a range of web application architectures, from the traditional session-based monolith, to modern distributed services. Previous experience building highly scalable, high performance, and cost effective infrastructure is especially interesting to us as we strive to reduce operating costs whilst increasing the resilience of our systems.
• DevOps mindset - You must be knowledgeable about DevOps practices and principles and have prior experience working in a DevOps orientated engineering department.
• Excellent research and analysis skills – This will form a large part of your day-to-day job, so you must be adept at researching complex topics and analysing large quantities of information and using that to inform your work.
• Proficiency in conveying technical information in diagrammatic and written form - You should be able to communicate your architectural designs and ideas using diagrams, flow charts and similar techniques. Written communication is very important in this role, playing a crucial part in the day-to-day sharing and discussion of ideas, so your written English must be good.
  
  

Nice to have:

• Proven ability to rapidly learn new technical skills and absorb new information.
• A good understanding of security best practices.
  
  

Non-technical Experience

• Able to consider wider business context and other non-technical factors – This is essential. As an infrastructure architect you will need to continuously weigh up factors such as
  
  

development time, competing priorities, cost and potential impact on existing customers,

against technical considerations. For example, you may need to design a scaled back solution

using existing technology, instead of the latest and greatest, if that is best for the wider

business.

• Good communication and interpersonal skills - You must be comfortable explaining complex principles, practices and ideas and be at ease liaising with other staff across the business. As you progress in this role you will need to run workshops, host meetings, present ideas, hold in depth discussions and work closely with engineers, so you must have – or show the potential to develop - the necessary interpersonal skills to do that effectively.
• Calm and composed under pressure – You will need to be capable of coping with tight
  
  

deadlines, multiple concurrent technical projects and frequently changing priorities. Whilst our

aim will be to enable you to focus on a small number of in-depth tasks at a time, the reality is

that this will not always be possible. Maintaining your composure and dealing with the situation wisely will be essential at those times.

• Strong organisational and time management skills – This will be essential due the variety of technical work you will undertake and will be key to managing your workload.
  
  

Preferred Experience

• Experience utilising serverless computing for on-demand execution
• Experience with monitoring tools such as Splunk and DataDog
• Experience with systems integration in healthcare, specifically HL7, MirthConnect
• Working in a HIPAA and/or GDPR compliant environment
• Experience of other relevant technologies, such as CI, build and test automation (Jenkins)
• Familiarity with the Atlassian suite of software including Jira, Bitbucket and Confluence
  
  

Additional Requirements /Qualifications

• High degree of fluency in English (written/oral)
• Honest and accountable
• Customer and business orientated
  
  

What's next:

It's best to apply today, because job postings can be taken down and we wouldn't want you to miss this opportunity. In case you need further information, just send us a message at [email protected] and we'll be happy to assist!

The preceding job description had been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain

or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties and responsibilities required of employees assigned to this job.

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About Us

We are a Brazilian company with over 35 years of experience in delivering IT services worldwide, ranging from IT outsourcing to application development or IT staffing. We have a direct presence in 41 countries, through our 70 offices located throughout the world. We have managed to become the preferred partner of many small-to-midsize local and regional companies as well. Most of our clients come from industries such as financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications, chemical, services, technology, public sector and utilities.

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