Senior Systems Architect

The System Architecture Group is responsible for strategy, architecture, design, and plan - covering all technology aspects from customer terminal to gateways. The function will ensure deeper engineering focus for new tech induction, hybrid fleet and network integration, customer solutions, resource optimization, business efficiency, and profitability

Client Details

Our client is a leading provider of satellite operations across the globe.

Description

ROLE PURPOSE

The role will report directly into the Head of System Engineering and whilst specific responsibilities will be dependent
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.

KEY ACCOUNTABILITIES

• 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

Profile

SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS
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)

Job Offer

This role is paying up to £87,500 for the perfect candidate plus up to bonus based on company performance.

This is a hybrid role - 2 days on site are required every week in West London