Job Summary:

The Senior Information Technology Architect will gain organizational alignment for all high-level infrastructure plans related to but not limited to, Private Cloud, Servers, Virtualization, and Storage; and initiate and participate in projects to evaluate technologies and methods for implementing these plans.
•Responsible for designing scalable and adaptive hardware solutions that address business needs and satisfy operational needs within the Enterprise standards
•Create standardized visual design diagrams of logical infrastructure, including platform, storage, and networking information.
•Participate in technical architecture discussions to determine the most-appropriate scalable model, taking into consideration high availability, failover, disaster recovery, and cost.
•Actively participate in project, support, and development initiatives designing solutions to optimally address current and future business requirements and infrastructure plans.

Essential Job Functions:
• Design Networking Solutions that are scalable across the enterprise
• Design a future state network that is compliant with CMMC 2.0
• Project Manage activities that require Safran processes and methods
• Lead and develop “move to cloud” projects that will reduce costs and /or reduce cash out
• Other duties may be assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
• Knowledge of Network Architecture
• Knowledge of CMMC
• Solution Architect for Cloud environments (preferably AWS, and certified)
• Knowledge and implementation of Network Security Concepts (in compliance with Safran standards)
• Knowledge of Network Routing
• Infrastructure Virtualization management
• Interface with external vendors of service (software and hardware)
• IT Administration
• Ability to identify IT systems needs and to make technical recommendations
• Budgeting (Adapt IT investment and stay within the budget)
• Infrastructure planning/anticipate SI evolution
• Ability to be an internal trainer
• Ability to negotiate contracts with vendors of services
• Project leader
• Continuous Improvement

Required Competencies:
5+ years related work experience working with infrastructure technologies – support, setup, monitoring and performance testing
•A minimum of 5 years in an Infrastructure Architect role in developing infrastructure design solutions covering network, server, database, application, and reporting domains
•Ability to translate disparate business strategies into comprehensive, pragmatic technology strategies and execution plans (roadmaps) to satisfy business strategy
•Ability to design and deliver solutions that factor in system performance, usability, quality, cross-system interdependencies, scalability while accounting for development and maintenance costs
•Broad technical expertise with the software and hardware components of modern computing environments, including a deep knowledge and understanding of information technology approaches, applications, architectures, tools, and methodologies, as well as a broad-based background in a wide variety of technology platforms
•Has depth and breadth of expertise in multiple related disciplines, such as Windows Operating systems, Unix Operating Systems (Red Hat Enterprise Linux), server, storage, network, security, virtualization, and cloud technologies
•Demonstrated ability in evaluating and recommending technologies as part of an overall strategic plan, including establishing priorities, developing long-range plans, and managing strategically
•Strong communication skills (written / verbal) with varied audiences
•Experience modeling as-is and to-be architectures based on business requirements
•Solid grasp of the ITIL framework
•Experience with researching/implementing Cloud Based solutions
•Experience explaining difficult concepts to decision makers to help shape technology strategy
•Detailed design knowledge of hardware, networking, database and applications in a large data center scenario
•Active/Active and Disaster Recovery design experience

Education/Experience:
• Master's degree or equivalent; or five to ten years of related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.