Senior Systems Architect

Responsibilities

• Work on infrastructure systems projects and initiatives, occasionally leading a project
• Diagram technical solutions large and small
• Execute on the standards for application authentication in accordance with internal security and GIS standards
• Research the technologies that ABC News pursues and determine their feasibility in our environment, as well as the best way to implement them using industry best practices. Present findings for the team to consider.
• Participate in Daily/Weekly team task/project list and contribute to all projects. Seniors will assist leads and principals with tasks and updates.
• Contribute to standards for solution designs on prem and in the cloud
• Uses best practices and knowledge of internal or external business issues to improve products or services with a general focus.
• Solves complex problems while collecting data from the other teams and bring back to Architecture. The seniors can also be on loan to other teams for embedded longer term and undeveloped media solutions.
• Works independently, requires minimal guidance
• Acts as a resource for colleagues with less experience internal and external to the team
• Work side by side with all clients and other technical staff to design and implement solutions as assigned
• Document solutions as assigned

Education

• Technical/Vocational certificate or degree in Engineering, Computer or Electronic Technology
• AWS Certified Architect preferred

Qualification & Skills

• Experience of 5+ years in designing media production solutions with a focus on IT systems
• Medium to In-depth understanding of networking standards and the ability to implement networking solutions as part of a systems project in accordance with these standards
• Capable of conducting detailed product reviews for purchase and providing build recommendations
• Basic experience and certification for AWS
• Understand Certificate deployment with a CA authority
• Subject matter expert in one or more technical areas such as Virtualization, Storage, Compute, Public and Private Cloud
• Active Directory and DNS management experience
• Experience in production video editing, motion graphics, and live production solutions
• Proficient in all Operating Systems (Windows, Linux, Mac) for both Standard and Custom Builds
• Ability to manage time optimally without supervision
• Staying updated on current technology trends consistently improving technical skills and capabilities
• Experience with virtualization platforms in a hypervisor, including but not limited to VMWARE
• Storage: NAS in Standalone Clusters & Metro Stretch Resilient Modes or Mirroring, SMB & NFS
• Authentication platforms (Microsoft Active Directory, SAML 2.0, oAuth and others)
• DDI: DNS, DHCP, IPAM
• Understanding of Kubernetes and containerized environments
• Ability to script including but not limited to Power Shell & Python
• Server Hardware (Rack Mount & Blade Farms) including but not limited to HPe, Dell, Cisco