Cloud and Infrastructure Architect - Nationwide
BDO - Chicago, IL
Employment Type : Full-Time
BDO’s Core Purpose is Helping People Thrive Every Day. Our Core Values reflect how we manage our work, our relationships and ourselves. As an employee of the firm, you will live true to our Core Values of people first, being exceptional every day in every way, embracing change, feeling empowered through knowledge and choosing accountability. Our Core Values are the standards by which we conduct ourselves day in and day out, both internally and externally.
BDO Digital, LLC, a subsidiary of BDO USA, LLP, provides a holistic portfolio of technology, transformation services and solutions. We are an organization that values your time, talent, and contributions. Collaborate with BDO Digital’s cross-disciplinary team who work together to solve digital needs and unearth new opportunities to drive competitive advantage. Our commitment to each other is why BDO Digital is a recognized leader for our culture, employee satisfaction and career growth. We’re looking for people with the same drive; to combine teamwork with technology to produce amazing results.
The Cloud and Infrastructure Architect will be dedicated to keeping up with the latest advances in Cloud and IT Solutions, working directly with decision makers and influencers at our clients to provide the best options to drive business outcomes. We are looking for motivated and talented team members who are excited to learn and take part in our cloud and infrastructure communities and project teams.
This role will be able to demonstrate knowledge with the implementation and/or support of hybrid environments. Cloud experience within infrastructure platforms is required. This position will exhibit a consultative communication style to clients on cloud solutions and must be willing to grow technology and infrastructure fundamentals with self-paced and formal training, provided by BDO Digital as needed.
As there are several citied listed within the job description, we would consider candidates nationwide.
- Responsible for Architecting cloud infrastructure to design, present, troubleshoot and implement infrastructure solutions including some or all of the following:
- Azure or AWS Cloud solutions to promote innovative technologies to solve business problems
- Virtualization with Hyper-V and/or VMware
- Disaster recovery and high availability
- Datacenter, server and storage hardware or converged infrastructure experience
- VLAN and VNet Networking, load balancer, application gateway, and firewalls configuration
- Enterprise Mobility + Security (EMS) or Active Directory with Azure AD and AD Connect deployment and integration
- Domain and tenant migration techniques including on-premises to IaaS and PaaS
- Business acumen to develop and present client roadmaps
- Coaches junior peers or lead a project team
- Travels locally to client sites, as needed
- Other duties as required
Qualifications
Education:
- High school diploma or GED, required
- Bachelor’s degree, preferred
Experience:
- Four (4) or more years of technical infrastructure implementation experience with increasing responsibility within Cloud Solutions (AWS or Azure) or Microsoft Stack, required
- Some background in server virtualization (Hyper-V or VMware), Active Directory and networking, required
- Aptitude for working in a consulting environment, required
Technology:
- One or more of the following, required:
- Azure or equivalent AWS
- Enterprise Mobility + Security components
- Modern Windows Server skillsets SQL virtualization and high-availability setup
- Virtualization in Hyper-V or VMware
- Application Virtualization in Remote Desktop Services or Citrix XenApp
- Domain, tenant and infrastructure migration tools
Other Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:
- Knowledge of EM+S for security, governance and centralized authentication
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to troubleshoot issues, identify solutions, and appropriately escalate issues
- Strong analytical, facilitation, documentation, and communication skills
- Strong project planning, scoping and management skills
- Strong business process analysis & design and process flow skills
- Client facing consulting experience
- Excellent interpersonal and customer relationship skills
- Capacity to work in a deadline-driven environment while handling multiple projects/tasks simultaneously with a focus on details
- Capable of successfully multi-tasking while working independently or within a group environment
- Capable of working well under pressure while dealing with unexpected problems in a professional manner
- Ability to work well in a cross-functional team environment
- Must have excellent organizational and multi-tasking skills
Keywords: Enterprise Mobility + Security, EMS, Microsoft System Engineer, Server, Exchange, Active Directory, Office 365, O365, Virtualization, Wireless Architecture, Routers, Switching, Firewalls, Integration, Endpoint Manager, SCCM, SCOM, Intune, Cloud, Security, NetApp, EMC, Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Skype for Business (formerly MS Lync) Multiple Locations
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