Title: Infrastructure Design and Delivery Lead

Duration: 6+ Month Contract with potential to extend or going permanent

Location: West Suburbs of Chicago

Description:

The Delivery Lead role is responsible for executing the design, planning, and implementation of platform, storage, and database infrastructure for lifecycle and strategic projects, including the management and continuous improvement of all infrastructure delivery processes and procedures.

Infrastructure Delivery Responsibilities

Serve as primary contact for Infrastructure organization in lifecycle and strategic projects
Manage end-to-end delivery of production and pre-production infrastructure in support of lifecycle and strategic projects.
Serve as consultant to Enterprise Architecture (strategic) and Performance Assurance (lifecycle) teams in creating technical requirements for assigned projects.
Design detailed physical infrastructure for projects based on approved functional and technical architecture.
Collaborate with Performance Assurance team to select hardware, software, storage, and database infrastructure in accordance with approved standards to meet project technical requirements
Conduct capacity planning exercises to adequately size infrastructure to accommodate short-term and long-term requirements.
Participate in project-level financial and resource planning activities.
Solicit infrastructure implementation and operational requirements from functional delivery teams.
Solicit pre-production environment requirements from requisite development and testing teams; provide to Environment Management team and manage execution of requirements.
Solicit performance and availability monitoring requirements; provide to Infrastructure Capabilities team and manage execution of requirements.
Assemble and manage virtual infrastructure delivery project teams.
Provide planning, design, and implementation work plans and delivery dates to assigned project managers for tracking.
Provide ongoing status to project managers and communicate project milestones, deliverables, changes, or other events to virtual delivery teams.
Solicit vendor quotations, obtain capital/expense approval, and purchase all requisite infrastructure unless procurement responsibility delegated to Performance Assurance or other functional team within Infrastructure organization.
Produce documentation as defined by Infrastructure Delivery Lifecycle (IDLC), or as required by a given project.
Conduct infrastructure delivery post-project reviews and incorporate findings into infrastructure delivery processes and procedures
Provide documented feedback for assigned members of virtual delivery teams upon completion of infrastructure delivery projects.


Process Management Responsibilities

Create and maintain all requisite process maps and workflow documentation
Maintain repository of standardized delivery procedures across functional areas
Maintain library of standardized project management templates
Maintain system of process controls
Initiate and execute process improvement projects
Ensure end-to-end quality of delivery processes
Exercise approval authority over infrastructure delivery process change requests




Experience: Required Skills:

UNIX Intermediate 5-6
Network Intermediate 5-6
Project Management Intermediate 7-8
Analytical Skills Expert 9-10
Application Server Novice 3-4
Design Intermediate 7-8
Detail oriented Expert 9-10
IS architecture Intermediate 5-6
Leadership skills Intermediate 7-8
Meeting Facilitation Intermediate 5-6
MS Visio Intermediate 7-8
Planning Skills Intermediate 7-8
Presentation Skills Intermediate 7-8
Project Planning Expert 9-10
Relational Database Experience Intermediate 5-6
Requirements Gathering Expert 9-10
Systems Analysis & Design Skills Intermediate 7-8
Web Server Intermediate 5-6

Desired Skills:

Apache Novice 3-4
EMC Storage Novice 3-4
J2EE Novice 3-4
Linux Novice 3-4
Oracle Novice 3-4
Unix Administrator Novice 3-4
Veritas Novice 3-4

Additional Information:

Candidate needs to demonstrate progressive growth in their career, starting with UNIX or Windows Admin, and growing through various other infrastructure roles, and could currently be in an Infrastructure PM role. Candidate should be able to design infrastructure solutions for projects. Not a hands-on position, more of a Delivery Lead for designing infrastructure solutions. Work with functional leads, technical resources and will be responsible for ensuring delivery of solutions. Handle about 2-5 small to large projects at once. This position will be involved with the planning stage / designing stages and less during the other stages of the SDLC process onward for various projects. Doesnt get involved with the specific technical portion of process, but relies on functional leads of various groups to get positions done. To Apply to this job go to http://www.GadBall.com or click here