Principal – Infrastructure Architect

Verisign helps enable the security, stability, and resiliency of the internet. We are a trusted provider of internet infrastructure services for the networked world and deliver unmatched performance in domain name system (DNS) services. 

We are a mission focused, values driven company where each individual can contribute to building a stronger, more secure internet.  We offer a dynamic and flexible work environment with competitive benefits and the ability to grow your career.

Verisign is seeking a Principal – Infrastructure Architect to join our architecture organization. This is a senior technical position with high visibility and cross-functional responsibility. Successful applicants must demonstrate superior interpersonal skills, conflict resolution, negotiation, and prioritization skills.

In this role, you will work directly with multiple functional engineering and security teams, developing solutions for capacity planning, OKRs (objective and key results), KPIs (key performance indicators), and other data modeling. Your responsibilities would include engaging with stakeholders to review their systems, prioritizing which systems would benefit the most from comprehensive reviews, performing research and lab testing, reviewing iterations with owning teams to ensure alignment, collaborating with other architects on future changes, and presenting outputs to leadership.

If crafting solutions to capacity and enterprise resource planning in support of critical Internet infrastructure is your passion, you should apply today!

Responsibilities

• Authoring capacity strategy documentation for critical on-premise and cloud systems
• Consulting with leadership to create and implement measurable OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) for infrastructure teams
• Design, implement, measure, and make recommendations from KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) and identifying trends and forecasting
• Data modeling and trending in support of organization initiatives
• Producing capacity metrics, trends, and forecasts for enterprise systems
• Providing detailed analysis and explanation of data to senior leadership
• Constructing a data driven approach to budget planning using metrics and KPIs
• Finding opportunities for process improvement and automation to lower operational risks and cost
• Adhering to corporate security standards and contributing to associated infrastructure standards
• Engaging in the prototyping and testing of new capacity architectures and solutions
• Performing research and authoring business cases as the foundation for executive decisions
• Engaging with vendors and contributing to contracts and renewals
• Consulting on plans for life-cycle management and equipment refresh
• Reviewing technical design documents and escalating any non-compliance with standards
• Collaborating with Infrastructure, Security, and other Architecture teams
• Gathering requirements and producing clear choice documentation
• Collecting customer feedback and incorporating into architectures
• Identifying technical debt and contributing to solutions to modernize
• Presenting at open houses and internal events
• Participating in recruiting, mentoring, and teaching opportunities, sharing knowledge, and developing others

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelors' degree in Computer Science or Engineering required, or equivalent work experience
• 15 years of experience in architecture, infrastructure, capacity planning, engineering, or other related areas
• Excellent communications and influencing skills, experienced at peer level and 2-3 level up communications
• Comfortable presenting data driven recommendations to senior leadership, including the potential risks and benefits
• Effective collaborator, able to work with teams of people toward company goals
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving capabilities, experienced with driving issues to resolution
• Bringing deep technical knowledge of capacity solutions and tooling
• Experience with crafting and measuring OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) and KPIs (Key Performance Indicators)
• Self-motivated and driven to produce high quality product
• Iterative thinking, delivering incremental tangible implementations and designs which others can leverage
• Highly adaptable, able to juggle multiple priorities
• Proven ability to quickly earn the trust of sponsors and key stakeholders and execute with limited information
• Proven ability to mentor and elevate knowledge of others
• Familiarity with enterprise tools such as Service Now, Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, GitHub, and PowerPoint

Preferred:

• 20 years of experience in engineering or consulting roles
• 5 years of experience with private and public cloud
• Security or cloud certifications such as AWS, Google Cloud, CISSP, or similar
• Software engineering experience with products such as Kubernetes, Jenkins, VMware, Docker, or Infrastructure and Orchestration tools
• Experience with capacity planning tools such as Prometheus, Chronos, Influx, Grafhana, Telegraf, or Tableau
• Experience with enterprise storage tools such as Host Power Tools, Infinimetrics, Purity, Pure1, Navisphere, and Dell Storage Manager

This position is based in our Reston, VA office and offers a flexible, hybrid work schedule

The pay range is $180,700 - $244,500. 

The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is noted above, however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience. Verisign offers a discretionary bonus which is based on individual and company performance, and certain roles may be eligible for discretionary stock awards.

Verisign is an equal opportunity employer. That means we recruit, hire, compensate, train, promote, transfer, and administer all terms and conditions of employment without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected categories under applicable law.

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