An in-depth understanding of high availability, disaster recovery, multi-site architecture, data center design, virtualization, network and network security, bandwidth design, firewalls, load-balance and traffic management technology is necessary.
The individual should be able to define strategy, system requirements and architecture by working with server, storage, network, database, application architecture and other teams as applicable.
Hands on experience in designing multi-site architecture and large data center solutions are preferred.
Strong leadership and communication skills are essential.
The role requires the ability to provide strategic and architectural guidelines to as it relates to general networking and network security.