Job: Sr Technical Architect Philadelphia PA

Jobing Description

Sr Technical Architect Philadelphia PA

Location: Philadelphia, PA

Description

Working as a Senior Technical Architect (STA), you will be responsible for developing IT solutions to business problems. To be successful, you must be proficient at the techniques that go into the formulation of the architectures, including:

* requirements discovery and analysis
* application of abstraction
* formulation of solution context
* solution alternatives identification and assessment
* technology selection
* architectural configuration

Strong initiative and communication skills, as well as the ability to build strong relationships are keys to success; you must know how to mediate opposing viewpoints and negotiate equitable solutions to ensure successful and stable outcomes. You will use your practical skills and experience across many application and infrastructure (operational) products, technologies, and services.

Additional Responsibilities:

* Analyze a customer's business and IT challenges and design a comprehensive solution that integrates smoothly into the customer's environment
* Responsible to carefully check for reliability, availability, and scalability
* Proficient in the use of modeling techniques - such as use case, scenario modeling, prototyping, benchmarking, and performance modeling - to describe the problem space, to size the solution and to validate that the proposed architecture addresses the business requirements
* Establish, implement, and enforce appropriate standards in the creation and implementation of the solution whenever project requirements call for or would benefit from the use of standards
* Project management, change management, operations management and financial analysis are integral parts of most assignments
* Lead architectural engagements in promoting the cause of technology, and of specific technologies, in order to achieve buy-in from the enterprise's management and IT communities, seeking to create new opportunities and business relationships
* Required to maintain a baseline of IT industry knowledge to advise on technical trends and techniques and apply them to the development of solution design

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

Expert in data network/IP load balancing

Deep F5 product suite experience especially with 1600 and 6900 series.

Background in network planning, implementation, and operations

Network design background

Expertise in either UNIX or Linux operating systems

Windows: NT, 2000, and 2003. Should be proficient in configuration and troubleshooting of servers, Active Directory, domain design, and CIFS/SMB/DFS

Solid working knowledge of high-availability architectures, VLANs, Routing (L2/3), and TCP/IP

Unix: Solaris and Linux (BSD, Irix, AIX, and HP/UX a plus)

Network: Experience troubleshooting customer-to-server issues

Minimum of five years experience supporting technical environment.

Ability to articulate and transfer complex ideas to a wide audience through both verbal and written communication.

Working knowledge of, and proficiency in, F5 ATM and security technologies.

Working knowledge of TCP/IP networking services such as DNS, UNIX, switches, routers and firewalls in Internet environments.

Experience with application level switching and web technologies.

F5 ATM and Security certifications will be required within six months of hire.

IPSec and/or SSL VPN technologies.

GateD, ZebOS, NameD, BIND, SSH daemons and clients, tcpdump, snoop, ethereal and other packet sniffing software or products.

IIS, Apache, WebSphere, WebLogic, Oracle or similar web and application platforms.

F5 iRule development.

Scripting and development in Unix shell, Perl, Java, C, .Net or similar environments.

Expert technical knowledge of TCP/IP and UNIX, particularly BSD variants.

Demonstrated experience and expert-level knowledge with network devices (routers, switches, etc.), including such topics as HTTP headers, ISO layers, and TCP flags.

Intermediate-level knowledge of SSL (particularly server-based) and DNS admin experience.

Strong interpersonal and presentation skills, both oral and written, with the ability to articulate and educate customers about complex technology in a simple way.

AT&T is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity Employer, and we are committed to hiring a diverse and talented workforce. EOE/AA/M/F/D/V

Requisition Number: 1155401
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