Senior Systems Architect
Michael Page
- London
- £77,500 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
upon the changing needs of the business, the following provides an overview of the role's key responsibilities
and measures
- Architect, Design and Deliver solutions using existing Infrastructure components. Where new infrastructure technologies are being introduced, implement them, and establish best practice for their adoption.
- Resolve incidents that have not been seen before and initiate change to ensure that issues can be easily dealt with
- in future.
- Contribute to the Technology Roadmap for the businesses Technology Data Centres and Services
- Evaluate new tools and techniques being able to understand their value and impact.
- Lead group design discussions on my area of expertise and be able to present with authority to a variety of
- audiences.
- Coach and mentor system engineers across Technology who are at a more junior level. Ensure that my own team's designs are of a high quality and understand the impacts to any other areas of infrastructure.
- Keep technical skills up to date and keep track of new technologies, understanding how they might benefit the Technology team
- Introduce automation for high performance and effectiveness.
- Be the key technical and design authority for the Team and along with the Solution Engineering, the main relationship holder with the Architecture and Product Team.
- Experience designing and deploying solutions for large, complex global organisations
- Analytical and structured approach to design, process, and advanced troubleshooting
- Ability to produce and maintain high quality HLD/LLD and Standards documentation
- Well organised self-starter who takes personal ownership and accountability at required levels of the work stream and project life cycles; willing to go the extra mile at every opportunity
- Builds and maintains positive relationships within and across teams
- Provides technical leadership within teams and mentoring for individuals
- Communicates effectively, able to deliver and present both written and verbal, designs, strategies and concepts clearly and effectively to Senior & Jnr staff alike
Required Technology Skills:
- Excellent/CCNA levels of practical experience in designing/building, operating large-scale, Multilayer Switching and Routing using Juniper or preferably Arista and Cisco equipment and OS in a WAN and LAN environment using technologies like Multicast, Port Channelling, EIGRP, CDP, GLBP, VRF, QoS
- Very good knowledge of Wide Area Networking technologies and protocols, such as MPLS, WAN,CoS, DWDM. Ideally, with experience of dealing with major Global Comms suppliers
- Excellent technical knowledge of OSI network topologies, troubleshooting and design eg Routing Protocols (BGP, OSPF, iGRP), DNS, DHCP, IP Address Management and TCP/UDP Port RFC & IEEE 802-based standards.
- Juniper/Cisco switches deployed in Spine/Leaf topology
- High levels of VPN experience along with associated technologies and protocols eg IPSec, Public/Private
- Key Encryption, TLS/SSL, digital cert techniques like ISA/KMP GRE and DMVPN
- High levels of Load balancing & Global/DNS balancing technologies and techniques, preferably Fortinet hardware and/or software appliances/cloud versions
- Good understanding of browser-based technologies and protocols like HTML, HTTP/HTTPS and XML
- Good understanding of Network Management technologies and protocols like SNMP, Netflow, IPSLA, along with practical experience of associated Network Management & Alerting Tools
- Desired Technical Skills (on top of the above mandatory skills)
- Good technical knowledge of Firewalls Platforms and Technologies, including build/configuration of some of the following Fortinet (pref along with associated Management Systems and Firewall rule analysis tools eg Skybox, Tufin
- High levels of knowledge of remote access and two factor authentication technologies and AAA solutions, eg RSA, Juniper/Pulse, Cisco ACS, Radius
- Sound knowledge of the main Cloud/Hyper-Scalers technologies from likes of Azure, AWS and Google and associated Private and Hybrid Cloud solutions especially when it comes to network connectivity like
- Express Route and Direct Connect and how these function over CoLo provider technology like Equinix Cloud Exchange
- High levels of experience of Threat prevention and detection techniques and associated technologies like
- IPS, IDS, APT/SEIM, Secure Proxy.
- SDN/automation technologies/configuration tools/ ZTP and rom likes of Juniper/MIST along with more open source/Technology-wide solutions like G.I.T, Chef, Anisble or Puppet, preferably in a DevOps environment
- Automation and Scripting knowledge (eg Python, Unix/Linux or PowerShell & Batch)