VP, Infrastructure Design (Virtualisation and Storage)

Roles and Responsibilities

• Lead and define the overall solution, design, principles, guidelines, standard and best practices of virtualisation and storage technology in the bank.
• Lead the documentation of current virtualisation infrastructure state and develop infrastructure gaps and impact analysis.
• Collaborate with IT leaders and define future state virtualisation architectures and technology to advance the bank digital capabilities.
• Lead the overall system health monitoring metrics and provide practical direction where applicable for in-depth monitoring of system performance.
• Provide technical leadership, directions and translate technology into effective and practical business use cases.
• Present technology architecture and strategy to all stake holders from executives to individual contributors.
• Formulate detailed plans to add new initiative or improvement to the existing core infrastructure and provide technical support throughout this process.
• Form cross-functional teams (network, platform, collaboration, operations, etc) to facilitate the creation of optimal architectures which align to the overall architecture plan.
• Collaborate extensively with IT leaders and technical delivery teams to ensure alignment of best practices and standards are adopted and executed in all aspect of operations and project implementation.
• Mentor and guide technical staff in implementing best practices and standards.
• Continually researching current and emerging technologies and proposing changes where needed.

Performance Requirements and Personal Attributes:

• Technology Evangelist
• Passionate about technology, enjoy challenges and maintain up-to-date knowledge of available and emerging technologies.
• Ability to articulate complex technology concept or requirement in a simple and constructive manner.
• Passionate to share and explain technology.
• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written, with the ability to pitch ideas and influence stakeholders professionally.
• Strong appreciation of business-IT alignment so as to maximise the adoption of technology solutions to advance the bank digital capabilities.
• A self-starter and able to work independently with minimum help.
  
  
• Proven ability to operate under pressure and meet challenging deadlines with minimum supervision.
• Highly organised with strong situational analysis, problem solving and decision-making abilities.
• Self-motivated, resourceful, and results-oriented.
• A good team player with excellent interpersonal skill, proactive in nature and possess positive attitude.

Technology Competencies and Experience Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent work experience.
• Virtualisation certification.
• SAN storage certification.
• Minimum 15 years of relevant working experience, with the last 5 years in large-scale heterogeneous virtualisation and storage architecture design, deployment, and implementation.
• Must have in-depth and hands-on technical experience in large scale SDDC design and implementation.
• Must have in-depth and hands-on technical experience in large scale OceanStor Dorado storage, Dell Isilon, NetApp and Brocade fabric switches implementation.
• Strong technical knowledge in virtualisation and storage high availability design, implementation, monitoring and performance tuning.
• Strong hypervisor and storage performance troubleshooting skills.
• Hands-on experience in virtualisation and storage automation implementation.
• Candidate with banking working experience is an added advantage.