Job : IT Solution Architect
Mission
Within the Enterprise Architecture department, the IT Solution Architect participates during the design and build phases of projects in order to guarantee the global consistency of the enterprise IT technical architecture.
The Technical Solution Architect’s role is to design solutions that satisfy the business needs, whilst assessing the impacts upon current systems architecture and working with the IT & Security directorate to ensure compliance with IT standards, norms and rules.
We are looking for a IT Solution Architect to join our Network & Security squad and implement technical architecture designs that will improve our organization’s network & infrastructure, and ultimately support upcoming business & IT transformations.
Responsibilities
- Guarantee consistency of technical architecture
- Ensures compliancy with the enterprise architecture methodology, technical design process, design principles & rules and relevant IT standards & norms
- Applies a frugal approach to the design process, by promoting reuse of architecture components & patterns and favoring cost efficient & sustainable architecture designs
- Advocates technical design choices to ensure the coherence of this evolution for all Thales Alenia Space countries
- Contributes to the capitalization and sharing of knowledge on the Information System (through modeling, documentation, communications, trainings)
- Proposes new additions and updates to the architecture principles & rules repository
- Participates actively to the architecture governance process, from demand to delivery
- Advise upon technical architectures & solutions
- Designs One-TAS technical architectures in response to a business project or architecture change requests
- Analyzes and checks the technical impacts of the proposed architecture solution and their coherence with the existing architecture elements for all countries (As-Is & To-Be analysis)
- Proposes technical architecture designs that respect the contextual constraints: priority, time, resources, organization & data
- Informs stakeholders about any issues with the current technical solutions being designed and implemented
- Collaborates with the IT & Security teams to ensure that that proposed technical architecture corresponds to expected performance, adaptability & interoperability objectives
- Facilitates the architecture design, risk assessment & security validation process and documents architecture decisions in the decision log
- Supports, provides expertise and performs verifications during the implementation phase (roll-out), before delivery in production
- Innovation
- Researches upon current and emerging technologies in relation to technical areas agreed upon by Management
- Identifies & proposes opportunities/implementation use-cases for which the enterprise could generate sustainable benefits or resolve recurrent issues with emerging technologies or architecture designs
- Participates in proof of concepts
Technical skills
As a member of the Solution Architecture squad, the IT Solution Architect is involved in the following technical domains:
- Strong skills in Infrastructure domain (Storage, Backup, Data mngt, Virtualization, and security constraints)
Storage : (DAS / NAS / SAN / HCI / SDS) :
- Mass Storage Units : Block and File-Services oriented units.
- Data storage structuration : Gold / Bronze data storage services.
- Block Storage SAN : FC and iSCSI technologies, Topology design, FC network design, FC SAN geoclustering, FC SAN switching architecture, FC SAN Zoning reference architecture for backends, including strategic reservations for roadmaps evolutions.
- Deduplication mass storage units and long distance data replication.
- HCI / SDS Storage infrastructures.
- Object Storage : S3/S3+ data storage ( ECS / Scality / CEPH )
- Usual vendors technology skills required : Dell/EMC / HPE / Brocade / Nutanix / VMware / …
Backup / DRP : (Physical / Virtual / End users PC) :
- Backup infrastructure architecture for Physical servers.
- Backup infrastructure architecture for Virtual servers.
- Backup infrastructure architecture for End users laptop.
- Data archiving and long term data retention architecture, including data availability over media generation lifecycles..
- Backup knowledge on physical and virtual Tapes and Tapes-Drives, physical and virtual Robotic libraries. FC SAN topology for Tape-Drives.
- DRP via backup infrastructure : infrastructure impact analysis to reach Thales Corp. DLO/RTO requirements, data geo-locations, local and global catastrophic event identification and impacts. “PAG” redaction for IT.
- Usual vendors technology skills required : Atempo Time Navigator / Atempo Digital Archive / Veeam Backup & Replication / Veeam One / Avamar / …
Servers & Platforms : Dell/EMC / HPE platforms. Network and SAN interfaces.
- Legacy servers architecture and sizing
- HCI virtualization (Nutanix / VSAN) architecture and sizing
- Legacy Virtualization ESXi node sizing
Virtualization : VMware full stack
- Legacy VMware vSPHERE cluster architecture.
- HCI VMware vSAN architecture
- HCI Nutanix architecture
- VMware NSX architecture & security features.
- VMware vREALIZE automation suite
BigData Infrastructure :
- Skills on Docker / Kubernetes architecture requirements.
- Skills on network overlays : VLAN, VxLAN, Flanel, Calicot, GENEVE
- Skills on stateless / persistent architectures and storage impact (PV, PVC).
- Skills on Rancher / Ansible / Terraform / Packer / GoVC requirements and architecture
- Skills on Elastic Search / Influxdb requirements and architecture
- Backup and recovery for metadata and data
- ….
Datacenter Architecture and Servitudes specifications :
- Energy and Thermal constraints / specifications.
- Electrical power balancing architecture and rules.
- Equipment location definition to increase service availability.
- Data room architecture document redaction.
Desirable architecture & technology certifications
- TOGAF
- VMware Certified Professional/Advanced Professional
- Network Virtualization (VCP-NV)
- Datacenter (VCP-DCV)
- Cloud Management & Automation (VCP-CMA)
- Security (VCP-Security)
- Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Google Professional Cloud Network Engineer or Professional Cloud Architect
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
- Cisco CCNP Enterprise
Managerial and behavioral skills
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to build good relationship with clients/operational managers and colleagues
- Ability to gather and assimilate information
- Problem-solving aptitude
- Organizational and leadership skills
- Assist with solving technical problems when they arise
- Ensure the implementation of agreed architecture and infrastructure
- Address technical concerns, ideas and suggestions
Languages
- Italian
- English
- Ability to write IT documents and to attend or manage a meeting in Italian and/or in English. The language for all architectures studies in English.
- French [Nice to have]
Experience
- Proven experience as a Senior Architect (minimum 5 years)