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Solution Architect Jobs in الرياض at Axel Partners
Solution Architect – Infrastructure Discovery & HA/DR Assessment
We are seeking an experienced Solution Architect to support a large-scale infrastructure discovery and High Availability/Disaster Recovery (HA/DR) assessment programme across three enterprise datacentres.
This is a hands-on role requiring strong experience with Clarity Transform, infrastructure discovery, data modelling, virtualisation, storage, backup, replication and HA/DR architecture.
The successful candidate will own the Clarity Transform deployment, establish the discovery framework, define the HA/DR metadata model and oversee the discovery, ingestion and mapping of infrastructure data across an estate of up to 10,000 devices.
Key Responsibilities
- Deploy, configure and operationalise the Clarity Transform environment, including appliances, connectivity, access controls and credentials.
- Define and configure the HA/DR Metadata Model and work with Infrastructure and Security stakeholders through to sign-off.
- Design and validate source-to-model mappings for infrastructure discovery and data ingestion.
- Discover and analyse VMs, physical hosts, clusters, storage, backup and replication technologies across three datacentres.
- Capture HA/DR mechanisms including clustering, Hyper-V/hypervisor replication, OpenShift, storage replication, snapshots, backup and stretched/metro clusters.
- Work with Infrastructure and Security teams to confirm topology, network connectivity, VLAN access and discovery requirements.
- Run and validate automated discovery scans to identify unknown or unmanaged infrastructure.
- Reconcile discovery data against existing management tooling and assess data quality.
- Identify workloads with unclear HA/DR posture, missing ownership or incomplete protection information.
- Highlight assumptions requiring business validation, including RTO, RPO and application-aware replication requirements.
- Produce a comprehensive HA/DR Gap Analysis and support remediation planning.
Essential Experience
- Strong hands-on experience with Clarity Transform, including deployment, configuration, discovery and data modelling.
- Proven experience delivering enterprise infrastructure discovery across complex datacentre environments.
- Strong knowledge of HA/DR architecture and infrastructure resilience.
- Experience with Hyper-V, enterprise hypervisors, OpenShift, storage replication, snapshots, backup, clustering and stretched/metro-cluster architectures.
- Experience integrating infrastructure discovery sources into a central data model.
- Understanding of network discovery, VLAN scanning, connectivity and security/access requirements.
- Experience defining metadata models and source-to-target mappings.
- Ability to analyse relationships across compute, virtualisation, storage, backup and replication.
- Strong stakeholder management skills across Infrastructure, Security, Architecture and Business teams.
Key Deliverables
- Fully deployed and operational Clarity Transform environment.
- Agreed and signed-off HA/DR Metadata Model.
- Confirmed source-to-model mappings.
- Infrastructure discovery and ingestion across up to 10,000 devices.
- Validated HA/DR configurations and infrastructure relationships.
- Identification of unknown, unmanaged or previously undiscovered infrastructure.
- Identification of workloads with missing ownership or incomplete HA/DR information.
- Comprehensive HA/DR Gap Analysis, including areas requiring further technical or business validation.
Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate is a hands-on Infrastructure or Solution Architect with practical experience analysing complex enterprise estates.
You should be comfortable tracing workload protection across compute, virtualisation, storage, backup and replication layers, and translating technical discovery data into a clear, evidence-based view of the organisation’s HA/DR posture.
Pay: ﷼30,000.00 – ﷼40,000.00 per month
Application Question(s):
- How many years of hands-on experience do you have with Clarity Transform? (Please specify your total years of experience and briefly describe your experience with deployment, configuration, discovery, and data modelling)
- How many years of experience do you have delivering enterprise infrastructure discovery across large and complex datacentre environments? (Please specify the approximate number of devices/assets involved in your largest discovery programme)
- How many years of experience do you have designing, implementing, or assessing High Availability (HA) and Disaster Recovery (DR) architectures? (Please describe the types of HA/DR environments you have worked with)
- How many years of experience do you have working with virtualisation and container technologies such as Hyper-V, VMware/other hypervisors, and OpenShift? (Please specify the technologies and your level of hands-on experience)
- How many years of experience do you have working with storage replication, snapshots, backup platforms, clustering, stretched clusters, or metro cluster architectures? (Please specify the technologies and relevant projects)
- How many years of experience do you have defining infrastructure metadata models and source-to-target/source-to-model mappings? (Please describe the data sources and models you have worked with)
- How many years of experience do you have with network discovery, VLAN scanning, infrastructure connectivity, firewall requirements, discovery credentials, and security/access controls? (Please describe your relevant experience)
- How many years of experience do you have analysing infrastructure relationships across compute, virtualisation, storage, backup, and replication layers? (Please provide an example of a complex infrastructure relationship you have analysed)
- How many years of experience do you have conducting HA/DR assessments or gap analyses? (Please describe your experience identifying gaps relating to RTO, RPO, replication, backup, clustering, workload protection, or application ownership)
- How many years of experience do you have identifying unknown, unmanaged, or previously undiscovered infrastructure through automated discovery and reconciliation against existing management tooling? (Please describe your approach and experience)
- How many years of experience do you have working with Infrastructure, Security, Enterprise Architecture, and Business stakeholders on large-scale transformation or infrastructure modernisation programmed? (Please provide an example of your stakeholder management experience)
- Have you previously worked on an infrastructure discovery programme involving 5,000–10,000+ devices? (Please specify the approximate size of the environment, technologies involved, and your responsibilities)
- Are you willing to work on-site in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (Please specify your current location )
- What are your expected annual compensation expectations for this role? (Please specify your expected salary/CTC and currency)
- How soon would you be available to start a new engagement? (Please specify your notice period or earliest available start date)
Work Location: In person
Title: Solution Architect
Company: Axel Partners
Location: الرياض
