What are the responsibilities and job description for the SENIOR IT SOLUTIONS ARCHITECT position at Agilant Solutions, Inc.?
Description:
Agilant Solutions, Inc. (www.goagilant.com) is an international provider of digital transformation and enterprise managed services. We leverage our extensive industry experience and IT best-practices for a simple reason; to empower our clients to become heroes in responding to competitive and business needs. It is our commitment to make them excel. Agilant provides a complete breadth of distributed IT solutions through our integrated practices.
Description
An Agilant Solutions Senior IT Solutions Architect is responsible for designing and implementing technology solutions that align with the goals and objectives of an organization. The ideal candidate would have to be in the Houston/Dallas area. They will have a strong technical background, excellent communication skills, and experience leading teams. They will also have a good understanding of various technologies, such as cloud computing, software development, and networking.
Required Certifications:
Agilant Solutions, Inc. (www.goagilant.com) is an international provider of digital transformation and enterprise managed services. We leverage our extensive industry experience and IT best-practices for a simple reason; to empower our clients to become heroes in responding to competitive and business needs. It is our commitment to make them excel. Agilant provides a complete breadth of distributed IT solutions through our integrated practices.
Description
An Agilant Solutions Senior IT Solutions Architect is responsible for designing and implementing technology solutions that align with the goals and objectives of an organization. The ideal candidate would have to be in the Houston/Dallas area. They will have a strong technical background, excellent communication skills, and experience leading teams. They will also have a good understanding of various technologies, such as cloud computing, software development, and networking.
Required Certifications:
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate - Associate or Professional
- Microsoft Azure Cloud solution well-architected design
- AWS Cloud solution well-architected design
- Experience using HPE tools. ( OCA, Ninja, HPE CloudPhysics)
- Effectively use software packages such as Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
- Strong communication, presentation and problem-solving skills
- Cloud hybrid networking
- Fault-tolerance and disaster recovery design
- Security best-practices and controls built into designs
- Technical documentation and proposal authoring
- Visual design diagramming
- Effective communication and collaboration with stakeholders and team
- Analysis of current state, challenges, and outcomes to formulate well-architected solutions
- Cloud migration
- Windows and Linux operating systems
- Networking protocols and connectivity fundamentals
- Virtualization platforms such as VMware and Hyper-V
- Storage system use and protocols such as CIFS/SMB, NFS, ISCSI and FCP
- Infrastructure services such as Microsoft Active Directory Domain Services, Azure AD, DNS, and DHCP
- Root-cause analysis and performance monitoring
- Understanding and experience with network and application load balancers
- Technical discovery and assessment
- Motivation to learn and pass certification exams
- IaC (Infrastructure as Code)
- Scripting and/or programming skills (PowerShell, BASH, Python)
- VDI technologies (Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops, VMware Horizon and Azure Virtual Desktops)
- DevOps
- Zerto
- Device42
- Sophos
- Attend meetings with customers, as the subject matter expert, to perform pre-sales activity, project discovery, and to provide advisory & consultation services.
- Compile and analyze data, challenges and goals in order to assemble statement of work documents and solution designs.
- Identify necessary project tasks, timelines to implement and associated costs & pricing.
- Present and justify solutions and designs to senior management and other stakeholders.
- Deploy and fully execute designed solutions and create detailed documentation.
- Work on projects independently or with a team
- Stay up-to-date with industry trends and best practices while obtaining and maintaining certification status.
- Participate in budget planning and forecasting
- Provide guidance and mentorship to junior members of the team
- To be highly detail-oriented while multi-tasking multiple active and future projects
- Comp: $100-125K Plus Bonuses
- Health, Dental, and Vision Insurance
- 401(k) benefits
- 16 Days of Paid Time Off and 10 Paid Holidays
