IT/Technical Architect

What You’ll Need To Apply

• Required Education: Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related technical field.
• Human Resources (HR) may substitute applicable experience for education on a 1:1 basis.
• Required Experience: Five (5) years of experience in infrastructure architecture and engineering.
• Education substituted for experience above will not be applied toward the minimum experience requirement.
• Required Certification/License/Registry: None

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Two (2) or more industry standard certifications/credentials, including (but not limited to) Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE), Certified Novell Engineer (CNE), Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), and Microsoft Azure Solutions Architect
• Five (5) or more years of experience documenting policies, procedures, and systems architecture
• Six (6) or more years of experience in network or operating systems technologies
• Experience in testing automation and configuration management
• Experience with Citrix load balancers and cloud load balancers (such as Azure Load Balancer (LB) and F5)
• Experience with cisco network equipment, including Cisco Nexus/Catalyst Switches and firewalls
• Experience in disaster recovery technologies, such as Zerto, Microsoft Automated System Recovery (ASR), VMWare Site Recovery Manager (SRM), and data replication
• Strong understanding of web security
• Good understanding of application authorization (AuthZ) and authentication (AuthN) patterns
• Familiar with protocols such as Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)/Transport Layer Security (TLS), and Domain Name System (DNS)
• Knowledge of database technologies including Non-Structured Query Language (NoSQL) and Microsoft Structured Query Language (MSSQL)
• Knowledge of infrastructure, network, and applications security standards and best practices
• Knowledge of telephony/wide area network (WAN) communications networks and protocols (Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)/Session Initiation Protocol (SIP))
• Knowledge of software-defined wide area network (SDWAN) concepts, products, and technologies
• Knowledge of WAN acceleration products and technologies
• Skilled in data center technologies, including converged/hyper-converged infrastructure
• Skilled in cloud architecture, including hybrid cloud, infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS)
• Skilled in networking protocols and technologies, including (but not limited to) Internet Protocol (IP), Ethernet, virtual private network (VPN), broadband, Layer 2/3, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB), and DNS
• Skilled in local area network (LAN)/WAN technology, including software-defined network (SDN), SDWAN, and WAN acceleration