Senior Systems Engineer (Technical Solutions Architect)

Job description:

• Senior Systems/Network Engineer AND/OR Solutions/Technical Architect (the titles are interchangeable at different companies, so don’t look at the titles)
• Migrating legacy applications from old environment to new Greenfield environment
• Authentication types (AD, LDAP, internal)
  • Previously, it was LDAP; now it’s AD
• Need someone to put together the detailed physical diagrams of entire environments
  • Very granular/detail level
  • Server Summary, product/licenses, floor plans, Implementation Strategy, rack layouts, cooling and power, ‘plug this service into this network port,’ Firewall ports/containers, physical connections; IP addressing, Design notes, Virtual Guest Summary, configuration settings
  • The Network team will provide the Network Diagrams (but this person should be able to understand the diagram)
• The build team then takes the designs (very detailed blueprint)
• 15 office moves last year alone
  • A new office design – encompasses the servers needed for a virtual network; Bill of Materials; could include all the A/V for all the offices; rack layouts;
• Windows 2012 servers need to be moved from old environment to new Greenfield environment with Active Directory – if something is not set up properly, then what would need to be done to ensure AD is set up properly (build the design to move it to the greenfield environment)
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    • Standard naming convention; standard networking equipment
    • Design Operations Review (a stage gate to pass before it gets to the Build team)
• Someone with the right skills 60-90 days to come up to speed
• In the prescreen, this is what Chip/Jason walks them thru
  • Need someone who can get into the details
• Currently have 4 architects; can probably keep 6 busy full-time;
  • 1 specifically for the 2012 migration