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 Remote France

Design and transform hybrid infrastructure environments for ALTEN clients from a remote role in France. Lead datacenter, cloud, security, automation, and infrastructure modernization initiatives.

Description

  • Design target architectures for compute, storage, networking, virtualization, and backup environments
  • Audit current infrastructure and create transformation roadmaps
  • Define hybrid architectures and interconnection strategies for public cloud environments
  • Create and test business continuity and disaster recovery plans
  • Provide technical leadership for migration, consolidation, and data center redesign programs
  • Establish industrialization and automation standards using Infrastructure as Code and configuration management
  • Align infrastructure architecture decisions with security requirements
  • Help prepare RFP responses covering solution design, technical rationale, sizing, and cost estimates
  • Present and defend technical proposals to clients
  • Qualify technical requirements and shape proposed transformation roadmaps
  • Create and enhance packaged infrastructure offerings
  • Develop accelerators such as architecture repositories, decision matrices, sizing models, and audit toolkits
  • Help structure the Infrastructure practice and document lessons learned
  • Lead the practice’s technical community
  • Conduct technical recruitment interviews and assess candidates

Requirements

  • Master’s degree, engineering degree, or equivalent, plus relevant professional experience
  • At least 8 years of infrastructure experience, including 3 years working in architecture
  • Proficiency with VMware vSphere and willingness to work with alternatives such as Proxmox, Nutanix, and Hyper-V
  • Experience administering Linux systems including RHEL and Debian, Windows Server, and Active Directory
  • Experience with SAN/NAS platforms, backup systems, and replication solutions
  • Experience with routing, switching, segmentation, load balancing, and firewall technologies
  • Experience using Ansible, Terraform, PowerShell, Bash, and Python
  • Experience with Zabbix, Prometheus, Grafana, or comparable monitoring tools
  • Understanding of IaaS models and cloud interconnection methods
  • Strong knowledge of security practices including hardening, segmentation, and privileged access management
  • Ability to maintain a strategic perspective while addressing operational realities
  • Clear communication and documentation skills, including explaining complex technical subjects
  • Initiative and expertise to help build and develop an infrastructure practice
  • High standards of rigor and strong risk awareness
  • VMware VCP, Red Hat RHCE, Cisco CCNP, or equivalent certifications are advantageous
  • An associate-level or higher cloud certification is advantageous

Benefits

  • A dedicated training and certification budget supported by an individual plan developed with your practice lead
  • Access to a technical laboratory
  • A structured technical community with weekly practice meetings, monthly community sessions, and recurring knowledge-sharing events
  • Career paths toward technical leadership, including Principal Architect or Practice Lead, as well as management
  • Work on critical infrastructure projects for demanding clients
  • Remote work availability

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