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Job Details: INFRASTRUCTURE ARCHITECT IV
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WHAT IS THE OPPORTUNITY?
The Infrastructure Architect is responsible for the design and delivery of the infrastructure projects across City National Bank. The individual must possess in-depth knowledge of infrastructure platforms applied towards strategic planning, innovation, solution architecture, and system integration. The Infrastructure Architect is considered to be a technical expert providing guidance and resuable patterns for core infrastructure services residing both in the public and private cloud. The Infrastructure Architect will provide migration and transformation guidance to project stakeholders for on-premises workloads into modern infrastructure archetypes. The individual also ensures delivery of infrastructure throughout the life of the project in partnership with engineering teams and project stakeholders.
Technology and Innovation Division
As a member of City National’s Technology & Innovation group, you will drive, develop, and maintain solutions for clients and colleagues. This is an exciting time of technology advancement and innovation across the bank, particularly within our technology teams.
WHAT WILL YOU DO?
- Deliver secure, robust, reusable, repeatable patterns that supports a DevSecOps model, promoting increasing maturity in our adoption of evolving hybrid-cloud models and capabilities.
- Provide technical consultation to application teams leveraging containerization, virtual hypervisor, and shared storage within City National Bank’s hybrid cloud infrastructure ensuring future scalability of workloads into a hybrid or full public cloud environment.
- Enable application development teams to effectively and efficiently deploy software by providing standards based infrastructure technologies and designs while encouraging the use of modern practices and architectural guidelines.
- Contribute to the creation of and adherence to the best practices of design and standards. Create and document reusable components necessary for efficient and scalable infrastructure implementation.
- Develop and document architecture patterns and best practices to address data protection and security needs. Create viable solutions that align with the business needs while meeting company goals and objectives.
- Create proof-of-concept solutions leveraging current and future technologies and demonstrate capabilities to application teams.
- Define, analyze, and plan all aspects of infrastructure technology including, but not limited to the network, server, storage, database, and application levels.
- Responsible and accountable for delivery of quality infrastructure and associated documentation related to the bank’s financial products, services, and processes.
- Liaison between external systems integrators, engineering teams, application teams, as well as internal project and product managers.
- Partner with the Information Security and Enterprise Architecture teams to ensure patterns and best practices meet the standards within City National Bank.
- Keep abreast with market and third party provider services to design the best solution for the customer.
WHAT DO YOU NEED TO SUCCEED
Must-Have*
- Minimum 10 years working in the Infrastructure Systems Engineering role
- Minimum 4 years of experience working in an Infrastructure Systems Architect role
- Minimum 6 years working in an enterprise level environment designing, building, and supporting network LAN and WAN, server, virtualized, and storage solutions
- Minimum 4 years experience implementing cloud model delivery
- Minimum 3 years experience with infrastructure automation
Skills and Knowledge
- Expert understanding of private cloud infrastructure technologies (VMware, NetApp, Pure, EMC Storage)
- Expert knowledge in designing and implementing solutions that leverage best practices for availability, resiliency, and disaster recovery
- Expert proficiency of Windows and Linux operating systems
- Strong experience in hybrid and full cloud infrastructure technologies (Azure / IaaS, and SaaS solutions)
- Experience in networking technologies and concepts (MPLS, VLAN, etc)
- Advanced experience of various serverless technologies and container-based platforms including Azure Functions, Kubernetes and Docker
- Familiar with benefits of CI/CD and Infrastructure as Code as well as tooling such as Helm, Terraform, ARM Templates, etc.
- Effective listening, verbal, and written communication skills
- Ability to manage vendor relationships and collaborate with internal technical and business oriented teams
- Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer (preferred), Azure Solutions Architect (certification is plus)
- Knowledge of TOGAF or other architecture frameworks (certification is plus)
- Experience with Agile, Agile Release Trains or strong aptitude to work in agile environment
*To be considered for this position you must meet at least these basic qualifications
The preceding job description has 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, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job.
INCLUSION AND EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYMENT
City National Bank is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and inclusion. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other basis protected by law.
ABOUT CITY NATIONAL
We start with a basic premise: Business is personal. Since day one we’ve always gone further than the competition to help our clients, colleagues and community flourish. City National Bank was founded in 1954 by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs and that legacy of integrity, community and unparalleled client relationships continues to drive phenomenal growth today. City National is a subsidiary of Royal Bank of Canada, one of North America’s leading diversified financial services companies.
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