Infrastructure Provisioning Specialist

• Initiating & Planning
  • Develop a deep understanding of our clients requirements and how best to respond from an infrastructure perspective – taking into consideration their past experiences, their immediate challenges, and their strategic roadmap.
  • Planning – collaborate with stakeholders to develop a project management plan to deliver the infrastructure solution as per designed, on time and to budget – and in accordance with the banks infrastructure delivery lifecycle process.
  • Ensuring availability of required resources to deliver projects to the agreed time line and budget.  
• Controlling / Executing
  • Orchestrate the end-to-end delivery of infrastructure solutions in response to requests from internal customers.
  • Identify, mitigate and communicate key assumptions, issues, risks and dependencies to master projects & relevant control and governance committees.
  • Ensures internal process, standards and risk compliance (including security, regulatory and audit requirements) are met. Look for opportunities for continuous improvement.
  • Ensuring that systems are commissioned following appropriate change control processes, and with knowledge transfer, training and required operational documentation provided to the Business-As-Usual (BAU) teams
  • Where changes in project scope happen, ensuring effective project change control and reforecast / rebase line.
  • Review of solutions post-implementation & follow through to project sign-off & closure

• Skills and Experience

• Technical
  • Must have Infrastructure provisioning experience – 3yrs+
  • Must be experienced in a complex, multi-national organization - an advocate of team multi culture and collaborative working – a strategic thinker with a commercial and pragmatic approach
  • Must have exposure (preferably 1 or more technically in depth) and understanding of infrastructure technologies; including open systems (UNIX/Windows), databases, storage area network, local/wide area networks, middleware, application servers, software development environments, high availability, systems management,  and security infrastructure.
  • Must be able to manage and responsibly navigate barriers to progress.
  • Must be able to identify risks and issues, mitigate and communicate to the project team, program management and associated steering committee members.
  • Must be able to prioritize (including multi-tasking) and control activities and deliver results within budgetary and resource constraints.
  • Must be able to manage external (vendor) resources.
  • Must have experience in leading technical, time critical projects (mutli-tasking as required)
  • Must have experience of managing project finances – forecasting, actuals, accruals, estimating
• General
  • Must possess excellent communication, collaboration, presenting and influencing skills, particularly in liaison with internal & external service providers and senior leadership - excellent ability to create a network & influence decision making process
  • Must be independent and confident, but willing and able to harness the expertise of others.
  • Must be able to work effectively as part of a team, and individually with minimal supervision
  • Preferably have exposure to a structured development lifecycle and related deliverables and work processes, including experience of working cohesively with application development teams/leaders.
  • Preferably have strong interpersonal and leadership skills – the ability to easily develop effective relationships with colleagues across the firm would be hugely beneficial.
  • Ideally past experience of working in technology operations, or infrastructure solutions architect experience – including any technical certifications
  • Ideally experience in working with application development teams in systems development support and project deployments.

Last updated on Dec 14, 2020