Global Network Architect
Location: United States, Georgia, Atlanta
Address: 1 - Corp Atlanta Ravinia, Three Ravinia Drive, Suite 100, 30346
Job number: 167928
Role Summary
The Network Architect is a member of a team designing, deploying and supporting IT infrastructure for the Company’s owners, customers, and partners within the organization. They will work collaboratively with business leaders, vendors, and other technical colleagues to do requirements gathering, analysis, architecting, design, development, and deployment of infrastructure solutions. They will need to be experienced with all aspects of the day-to-day administration, and activities that take place in an enterprise-class IT infrastructure department. They will display and keep current knowledge of one or more of the following infrastructure technologies: hardware, software, networking, voice, applications, cloud, and systems engineering. Serve as a 4th level escalation points for operations issues causing severe impact to business
Your day to day
• Subject matter expert in one or more infrastructure technologies with the ability to create solutions in multiple technical disciplines.
• Strong contributor to roadmap definition, technical architecture and ongoing maintenance thereof.
• Responsible for initiating and leading technical discussions, training other resources and communicating to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to translate technical specifications to business requirements.
• Act as advisor to Sr. level IT management concerning strategic decisions and new technology.
• Serves as an escalation point for operations (Tier 3 or Tier 4 support) for highly complex solution resolution, and responsible for root cause analysis.
• Leads proofs of concept for technology solutions.
• Leads the design of processes and templates for infrastructure implementations.
• Responsible for solution documentation in support of operational readiness, may include training, process development and explanation of standards.
• Responsible for setting standards for hardware, software and configuration management..
• Evaluates the impact of proposed or required changes which may be highly complex in nature (internally and by vendors) especially in the areas of hardware, software, performance, maintenance and cost; provide recommendations to management with an impact assessment.
What We Need from You
Bachelor's or Master’s Degree in a relevant field of work or an equivalent combination of education and work-related experience.
7-10+ years of progressive work-related experience with demonstrated proficiency in multiple disciplines, technologies or processes related to the position
Experience acting in the capacity of a subject matter expert on a specific technology
Demonstrated proficiency and technical knowledge of technical architecture (systems, network, application), network communications/protocols, ITIL framework
Demonstrated proficiency in analytical and problem solving skills with ability to correlate cross-platform technologies.
Demonstrated project management from conception through implementation with the ability to deliver infrastructure solutions which span the end-to-end project lifecycle
Advanced experience with relevant programming / scripting and source code management tools.
Detailed proficiency with multiple modern operating systems, systems integration, API-driven automation and advanced scripting experience
Experience with the software development life cycle from conception through implementation.
Nice to Have
- Data/Voice Networks Focused:
- Public Cloud (AWS/GCP/Aviatrix)
- Security Technology (Checkpoint/Cisco/Palo)
- SD-WAN/Transport Technology
- Network Performance Hubs
- WAN
- LAN Routing (Cisco ACI Fabric)
- Data Center Co-Lo Network Services/Contracts
- Network Load Balancing (F5)
Hot Skills –
- Understanding/Mindset of Applications/Middleware Focused:
- Web Application
- Native Application
- High Volume Transactional Systems
- Data Focused:
- Hospitality Data/Patterns
- Understanding/Mindset of Applications/Hotel and Hospitality Focused:
- Property Management Application
- Cloud PaaS/SaaS Application
- Reservation and booking transactional Systems
- Experience in the IT infrastructure setup for IHG’s Apps:
- PMS, GRS, Holidex etc..
Travel - 10%
Location - Our hybrid work structure is an exception of three (3) days in the ATLANTA office. This expectation may be adjusted to evolve with the changing needs of the business.
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Important information:
- The salary range listed is the lowest to highest pay scale we, in good faith, believe we would pay for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range, and the range may be modified in the future. An employee’s pay position within the pay range will be based on several factors, including relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, geographic location, performance, shift, travel requirements, sales or revenue-based metrics, and business or organizational needs.
- No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until it is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, or other form of compensation allocable to a particular employee remain in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.
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