Infrastructure and Network Architect
Keystone Solutions · Brussels, Belgium
Mission Overview:
This is a consultancy mission at the client site, representing Keystone Solutions. As a Keystone Solutions consultant, you will be hired to work on client projects, bringing your expertise to dynamic environments and delivering value through our consultancy model.
Responsibilities:
- Deliver and maintain critical infrastructure services for the client, focusing on web infrastructure and applications.
- Design scalable and resilient solutions as part of technical architecture responsibilities.
- Standardize web infrastructure and security assets through industrialization.
- Ensure 24/7 operational stability by providing production support.
- Deploy and secure web applications in alignment with bank-wide standards, collaborating with cross-functional teams such as Security and DevOps.
- Conduct deep-dive analysis of application flows, performance bottlenecks, and incident root causes to ensure system reliability and efficiency.
- Create and maintain technical architectural designs for new or evolving workflows (OPAD & DTD's).
- Translate business requirements into robust, future-proof solutions.
- Lead technical investigations into production incidents, using tools like logs, traces, and APM data to isolate root causes in application flows.
- Conduct performance benchmarking and capacity planning for WebSphere and cloud (IaaS/PaaS) environments.
- Document findings and recommend architectural improvements to prevent recurrence.
- Partner with project architects, infrastructure engineers, and development teams to review and validate DTDs, ensuring technical feasibility and adherence to standards.
- Facilitate understanding of architectural documents across stakeholders, acting as a subject-matter expert for technical queries.
- Contribute to the definition, maintenance, and evolution of reference architectures for web infrastructure, promoting consistency and reusability.
- Develop and share best practices for performance tuning, flow optimization, and incident troubleshooting.
- Advocate for structured approaches in project delivery and smaller requests, providing guidance to peers and counterparts to ensure alignment with architectural principles.
- Deliver an end-to-end view of solutions, offering deep technical expertise in collaboration with other domain experts.
- Proactively monitor application performance and flow health, identifying risks before they impact operations.
- Guide the management of the deployed solution landscape, identifying opportunities for optimization, consolidation, or decommissioning.
- Proactively identify savings opportunities and propose actionable, realistic recommendations.
- Assess decommissioning candidates and drive their retirement through structured plans.
Requirements:
- Master's degree or equivalent by experience.
- No mandatory certifications, but TOGAF, ITIL, Agile, etc. are considered assets.
- Languages: Fluent English required; French and/or Dutch are a plus.
- At least 5 years of relevant experience in infrastructure architecture in enterprise environments.
- Broad knowledge of Web Application Hosting (WebSphere, Kubernetes, IIS, Tomcat, HTTP), Web Security (ISVA, F5 WAF, API GW, HSM, oAuth2, TLS, etc.), and experience in cloud environments.
- Solid technical background in at least two of the listed assets is preferable.
- Ability to understand bank-related business processes and assess impacts on business; experience with Agile methodology.
- Soft skills: Team player, quick self-starter, pro-active attitude, good communication and influencing skills, analytical and synthesis skills, autonomy, commitment and perseverance, ability to work in a dynamic and multi-cultural environment, customer-oriented, risk awareness, flexibility, strong interpersonal and communication skills, ability to work effectively with a wide range of constituencies in a diverse community.
Keystone Solutions Advantages:
- Consultancy Nature: You will work on-site as a Keystone Solutions consultant, representing our values and expertise.
- Dynamic Projects: Experience a wide variety of challenges across different client environments, ensuring no two missions are ever the same.
- Turbo-Charged Learning: Benefit from continuous professional development and broad learning experiences, accelerating your growth.
- Skyrocketing Ambition: Keystone Solutions is committed to your career progression, offering opportunities to advance within our consultancy framework.
- Values: Being a “K-Stone” means bringing integrity, excellence, and collaboration to every engagement.
Application:
If you are ready to tackle technical and strategic challenges in a dynamic consultancy environment, apply today at Keystone Solutions Career Portal.