ALTEN
ALTEN
ALTEN provides outsourced engineering, research and development, project management, and IT services for organizations across industries including aeronautics, automotive, banking, life sciences, construction, and consulting. Its international team of more than 57,400 employees works across nearly 30 countries on complex technical projects, helping clients develop technology, improve operations, and advance innovation.

Senior IT Infrastructure Architect

Shape, modernize, and secure hybrid infrastructure for ALTEN’s engineering and technology consulting clients. Lead initiatives across data centers, cloud platforms, automation, and business continuity.

Description

  • Design target infrastructure architectures across compute, storage, networking, virtualization, and backup
  • Assess existing environments and map out their transformation
  • Plan hybrid architectures and connections to public cloud platforms
  • Create and test business continuity and disaster recovery plans
  • Guide migration, consolidation, and data center redesign projects
  • Set standards for infrastructure automation and industrialization, including IaC and configuration management
  • Align infrastructure decisions with security needs
  • Help prepare RFP responses with solution designs, value propositions, sizing, and cost estimates
  • Present proposals to clients and make the case for the recommended solutions
  • Clarify technical requirements and help develop proposed roadmaps
  • Create and improve packaged infrastructure offerings
  • Build reusable tools and resources, including architecture repositories, technology matrices, sizing models, and audit toolkits
  • Help shape the Infrastructure practice and document lessons learned
  • Lead the practice’s technical community
  • Take part in technical interviews and assess candidates

Requirements

  • Master’s-level education (Bac+5), an engineering degree, or equivalent
  • At least 8 years of infrastructure experience, including 3 years in an architecture role
  • Experience with VMware vSphere and openness to alternatives such as Proxmox, Nutanix, and Hyper-V
  • Experience with Linux (RHEL or Debian), Windows Server, and Active Directory
  • Knowledge of SAN/NAS, backup, and replication solutions
  • Networking knowledge covering routing, switching, segmentation, load balancing, and firewalls
  • Automation skills with Ansible, Terraform, and scripting in PowerShell, Bash, or Python
  • Experience with Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana, or comparable monitoring and observability tools
  • Hybrid cloud knowledge, including IaaS models and interconnection methods
  • Strong awareness of security topics such as hardening, segmentation, and privileged access management
  • VMware VCP, Red Hat RHCE, Cisco CCNP, or equivalent certifications are an advantage
  • A cloud certification at Associate level or higher is an advantage
  • Ability to take a strategic view while staying connected to operational realities
  • Clear communication and documentation skills
  • Initiative and expertise to contribute to practice development
  • Rigor and strong awareness of risk

Benefits

  • A dedicated training and certification budget, with an individual plan developed alongside your practice lead
  • Access to a technical lab
  • A structured technical community with weekly practice meetings, monthly sessions, and regular knowledge sharing
  • Career paths in technical expertise, such as Principal Architect or Practice Lead, and in management
  • Substantive projects involving critical infrastructure for demanding clients
  • Remote work is available

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