Hybrid Technical Lead – Cloud & Infra Engineering

at Birlasoft

• Job title: Technical Lead – Cloud & Infra Engineering
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Senior
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Azure, Cloud, MS SQL Server, SQL
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Toronto, Canada

About the role

• Senior Infrastructure Architect leading cloud and infrastructure integration initiatives at a Canadian company. Collaborating with teams to optimize technologies and ensure compliance and performance.

Responsibilities

• Work as part of IT Integration teams to plan and execute Infrastructure integration activities related to user experience and collaboration migration, datacenter/cloud design and workload migration, AD/Entra ID and Office 365 migration and consolidation.
• Work in conjunction with enterprise architecture on design, strategy, and standards; documents and publishes appropriate infrastructure architecture principles and standards, position papers, blueprints, best practices, patterns, and frameworks.
• Set strategic direction for various infrastructure technologies such as public cloud, directory services, collaboration services, network, storage, server, database and security best practices.
• Encourage the use of shared systems and tools to lower expenses and enhance communication.
• Ensure that projects do not duplicate functionality or diverge from each other and business and IT strategies.
• Serve as level-4 escalation point for operations team and assist with problem resolution and root cause analysis as needed.
• Plan for life and refresh cycles. Ensure that architected solutions work in line with application, network, desktop, server, storage, etc.
• Develop and monitor technology architecture and technology vision; determine current and future enterprise infrastructure needs.
• Ensure that installations and upgrades are done in accordance with established policies, procedures, and license agreements.
• Identify, implement, and monitor best practices for infrastructure technology architecture.
• Review software requirements and designs architecture for high availability and disaster recovery as per business requirements.

Requirements

• Minimum 12 years of IT Infrastructure-related experience, at least 5 of which needs to be working as an architect.
• Ability to work with and lead Infrastructure and DevOps teams towards IT infrastructure solutions.
• Expert knowledge of standard infrastructure components such as Windows-based servers, enterprise network components, public cloud Infrastructure/PaaS technologies, Microsoft Exchange/Office 365, Microsoft Active Directory/Entra ID, Microsoft SQL Server, Server Virtualization, Enterprise SAN Storage.
• Cloud certifications in Azure or AWS including architecture level certification.
• Knowledgeable of enterprise application Infrastructure design & several years’ experience creating enterprise Infrastructure architecture and solutions.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Ability to work with and present solution ideas to C-level executives.
• Experience in leading projects.
• Experience with merger and acquisition IT Infrastructure planning.
• Analytical skills and ability to see the big picture.
• High degree of curiosity about new technologies.
• Negotiation and persuasion skills.
• Experience in IT Consulting is preferred.