IT Architect

An IT Architect is required within the Secure Land Communications (SLC) area of the business

Outline

As part of a team dedicated to the Public Safety market segment, your key focus will be campaign and project support for a major Public Safety campaign in UK.

Responsibilities:

• Define a competitive end-to-end solution together with SLC experts and experts from a commercial MNO
• Deploy this future-proof system architecture and demonstrate it in a Proof of Concept
• Support tender process for mass roll-out of the planned solution for UK governmental authorities
• Take advantage of our DevOps pipeline and tailor it to feed our UK client needs
• Ensure that the solution fits smoothly into our customer's data center environment
• As part of our dynamic and agile team, discuss and align robustness, performance and security aspects of the targeted solution
• On top, identify dependencies and drive technical requirements clarification with stakeholders across customers, to ensure a coherent end-to-end solution

Skills/Experience:

• Proven experience (at least 3-10 years) in enterprise network technologies as well as experience working in complex IT environments.
• Hypervisor technologies (VMWare, OpenStack)
• Experience in scripting and DevOps tools and techniques such as GitLab CI, Ansible and Terraform. Knowledge in Kubernetes architectures is considered as a strong advantage.
• Hardware Initialization (Switches, Routers, Firewalls, Servers, Storage)
• Hosting (Virtual Machines, Physical Machines, OS Stacks and services)
• Core Services (DNS, DHCP, NTP...)
• System Management and monitoring
• Strong system-level troubleshooting skills and the ability to identify and resolve high-level scalability and performance issues.
• Awareness of security threats and corresponding security know-how.
• Excellent communication skills to address needs and propose solutions towards customers and internal stakeholders.
• Experience in the Public Safety industry is an advantage.

Education & Soft skills

• Master's or Bachelor's degree in IT or Communications or equivalent experince
• Strong customer orientation
• Creative mindset and strong problem solving skills
• Analytical by nature, highly organized and able to effectively prioritize tasks
• Ability and willingness to work as a team player in a highly collaborative and fast-evolving international environment

Guidant Global (Airbus) is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.