Infrastructure Analyst/Deutsche bank/Moscow/from 3000-3500$
Job Function: Coordination of the infrastructure projects for Global Business Services and Finance IT
Location: Moscow
Role Description: Interface with application owners and infrastructure groups to manage wide-scale infrastructure projects.
Responsibilities: Interact with the IES and Application teams to ensure large/complex projects are on track. Escalate any issues with the projects. Review existing server assets and propose consolidations/virtualisations/decommissioning.
Background
The GBS&F IT business unit falls within the GTO Investment Banking IT division of Deutsche Bank and at it’s core is an application development and support organisation. GBS&F IT manage a portfolio of over 1000 applications from low level non critical core functions to large scale enterprise applications supporting the Front Office functions within the Investment Banking arm of DB
Overall Purpose of the Role:
As an Infrastructure Analyst you will be in charge of projects for the infrastructure landscape for the whole of GBS&F IT. This includes analysing project scope, translating them into required hardware changes, coordinating changes with the application owners and facilitating the changes with the help of the Information Enterprise Services support groups.
Specific Scope
- Coordination of IT infrastructure projects - liaising with the various applications and IES teams and documenting key tasks and milestones.
- Develop a strategy and corresponding plan of what hardware should be purchased in light of business requirements, providing the most effective use of resource and funds.
- Optimise infrastructure designs to reduce cost.
- Review the purchase of new hardware to ensure the most efficient use of resources.
- Review existing hardware assets and propose cost saving and consolidation options
- Tracking and progressing Technology Roadmap compliance where appropriate ensuring conformity to this policy
- Initiating the delivery of various initiatives to CIO business areas.
Experience/Background:
- Coordination experience: needs to be able to formulate and monitor projects for complex hardware/software migrations
- Broad technical experience: understanding of the concepts of Solaris, Linux, Windows, Oracle, Sybase, Networks, Storage
- As advantage - experience with Financial matters, e.g. formulating business proposals, calculating cost reductions + TCO impact for complex hardware/software setups
- Interpersonal: needs to relate with project managers, but also senior management, as well as with technical engineers and support staff
Personal Characteristics:
- Thorough approach to project planning
- Strong English communications skills
- Strong analytical mindset
- Eager to learn about new technology
- Able to deal with multiple projects in parallel
- Capable of taking tasks that are only roughly defined, yet involve complex interactions with other tasks and projects, and translating them into concrete initiatives.
Skills Required:
- Basic technical knowledge about servers, storage, networks, databases, software development process
- Fluent English