Solution Design Expert

Our Company

We're Hitachi Digital Services, a global digital solutions and transformation business. Our expertise, innovation and technology unlock potential – from taking theme park fans on magical rides, conserving natural resources, protecting rainforests, and saving lives. We automate, modernize, optimize, and accelerate. Our people are trusted transformers, with deep engineering expertise, focused on a sustainable future for all.

Imagine the sheer breadth of talent it takes to inspire the future. We don't expect you to 'fit' every requirement – your life experience, character, perspective, and passion for achieving great things are equally important to us.

The team

We're a leader in cutting-edge innovation, the transformative power of cloud technology, and converged and hyperconverged solutions. Our mission is to empower clients to securely store, manage, and modernize their digital core, unlocking valuable insights and driving data-driven value.

This strong, diverse, and collaborative group of technology professionals collaborate with teams to support our customers as they store, enrich, activate, and monetise their data, bringing value to every line of their business.

The role: Solution Design Expert
Infrastructure Design position with 10+ years' experience, Ideal candidate is expected to demonstrate in-depth data centre & Public Cloud Infrastructure Deployment & Design experience with adherence to best practices wherever suitable.

• Create and lead solution designs for internal customers and help scoping of requirements to meet business needs
• Develop project rationale and perform scoping assessments to determine feasibility of projects
• Ensure overall user experience is taken into account when designing and deploying new solutions and services
• Ensure implemented solutions are according to specifications and fit for purpose
• Ensure designs produced adhere to architectural roadmap and support the development, execution and operations of software/service
• Planning deployments together with Project Managers and Operations Team and deployments between development environments and validation / productive organizations
• Review deployment packages with developers including testing, preparing checklists and scripts for manual deployments and documentation
• Experience in the entire rack stack (e.g. storage, compute, virtualization, containerization, networking for traditional datacentres as well as public cloud)
• Strong work experience in On premises Storage and Connectivity technologies
• Knowledge of OS, network, disaster recovery, high availability, firewalls, load balancers, VPC, subnet, routing, VPN, DNS is required leading DevOps Tools & Technologies
• Knowledge on Docker containers, Kubernetes cluster deployment and management - Linux working experience will be added advantage

Cloud related services and security measures

• Worked on VMware ESX, Citrix, Dell Storage, Blades servers,
• Experience working on Converged and Hyper-converged platforms
• Expert in IaaS, PaaS solution implementation -AWS
• LAN, WAN, and related networking concepts around Private and public cloud connectivity
• Good knowledge on middleware technologies such as JBoss, Apache Tomcat and so forth
• Understanding of GxP compliance environment would be an added benefit
• Translate the business requirement in a presentable manner in-line with company standards Ensure operational integrity.
• Investigates assigned problems through to resolution or root cause. Coordinates the actions of others as necessary to assist with the analysis and resolution actions for problems and known errors.
• Plays a key leading role in ensuring the successful end-to-end infrastructure solution
• Helps to plan the deployment, during the service design stage of the service lifecycle, in conjunction with personnel from other teams and functions.
• Provides technical and application guidance and support throughout engagement.
• Performs an impact analysis to support the application teams
• Supports the delivery of continuous improvements to the job-related IT service management processes and IT services.
• Will be required to engage with multiple stakeholders at business functional level, understanding security / compliance requirements and proposing the solution.
• Must be able to work on large and complete projects in matrix environment covering wider spectrum of technologies.
• This is not a deployment or cloud engineer position. It is about designing the solutions where previous hands on experience in the related areas would strictly be required. Should provide best-fit quality solutions. Participate in various PoCs to provide solution around leading edge technologies. Organizes, documents, reviews work items.
• Must be fundamentally strong in both Datacenter & Cloud concepts.
• Able to propose various initiative by identifying areas of improvement on proven Subject Matter Expertise

What you'll bring

Proven expertise in your area by which you can contribute to the growth of the practice—subject matter expert who can increase competency in said technology and mentor other team members.

Be at the forefront of the exciting journey Hitachi Digital Solutions has undertaken and contribute immensely through your consulting skills for internal and external customers.

About Us
We're a global, team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can make a positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can bring a better tomorrow closer to today, this is the place for you.

Championing diversity, equity, and inclusion
Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are integral to our culture and identity. Diverse thinking, a commitment to allyship, and a culture of empowerment help us achieve powerful results. We want you to be you, with all the ideas, lived experience, and fresh perspective that brings. We support your uniqueness and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential as part of our team.

How We Look After You
We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We're also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We're always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you'll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

We're proud to say we're an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status
or any other protected characteristic.
Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.