IT Infrastructure Architect

Minimum Qualifications
Education and/or Equivalent Experience:

• Graduation with a Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with major course work in a field related to the job, plus four (4) years of experience in a related field.
• Experience may substitute for education for up to four (4) years.
• Graduation with a Master's degree from an accredited college or university in a related field may substitute for two (2) years of experience.

Licenses or Certifications:

• Valid Texas Driver's License depending on assignment.

Notes to Applicants
Austin Energy is seeking an IT Infrastructure Architect to join the IT Network LAN & Telecom team. The responsibilities of the position include expert operational, hands-on support of all aspects of the network infrastructure the team manages including the configuration, installation, maintenance, patching, troubleshooting, and decommissioning of next-generation firewalls, load balancers, routers, switches, wireless infrastructure, application-centric infrastructure ( ACI ), software-defined access (Cisco DNA -Center, Identify Service Engine ( ISE ), wireless), port configuration, VLAN , DNS , VPN , etc.

The architect's duties include contributing to designing, implementing, managing, and maintaining a highly complex, secure, and reliable network infrastructure, documenting and troubleshooting network components, and using experience to recommend new technologies and solutions. This position requires on-call rotation to support 24-hour utility operations and travel between local sites to survey in support of the integrated network solutions.

This position requires a criminal and NERC background investigation.

The primary duties of the position:

• Ensure compliance with all security policies, procedures, and standards to regulatory standards.
• Administer and build network security systems.
• Administer routing and switching, logging and security event analysis, and firewalls.
• Lead compliance duties such as security patch assessments, quarterly cyber access reviews, and verification of electronic access privileges.
• Administer modeling software and review business rules for access.
• Troubleshoot advanced systems/topologies/storage and support critical customers in a utility environment.
• Provide collaborative input to infrastructure planning and design.
• Provide leadership and guidance (mentoring) to junior team members using motivational and collaborative skills.
• Travel to multiple work locations and participate in an on-call rotation within the 24-hour utility operations.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION :

Working with Austin Energy provides a number of health and welfare benefits such as low-cost medical, dental, vision, paid leave time, a highly competitive retirement plan, career development opportunities and more. Please click HERE for more information.

DEPARTMENT MAY CLOSE THIS JOB POSTING AT ANY TIME AFTER 7 DAYS .

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The responses to the supplemental questions must reference the employment history listed in the employment history section. Once the requisition has closed, the application cannot be changed to update work history, supplemental questions, or any other information.

We reserve the right to verify high school and college education for top candidate(s).

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VETERAN INTERVIEW PREFERENCE :

Military/Veterans must provide a copy of their DD214 verifying honorable discharge, at the time of initial interview to receive military/veteran interview preference.

CRIMINAL HISTORY BACKGROUND CHECK :
This position requires a criminal background investigation.

FAIR LABOR STANDARDS ACT :
This position is classified as EXEMPT and may require to work additional hours outside of the normal schedule to include nights, weekends, and /or holidays.

DRIVING REQUIREMENT :

This position requires a <type of driver's license> or the ability to acquire one by your hire date. External New Hires must meet the City of Austin's Driver Record Evaluation ( DRE ) requisite . To be considered for a driving position, applicants cannot have more than three moving violations or a total of six Driver Record Evaluation points within a period of thirty-six (36) months.

CRITICAL :

This position has been designated as a Critical Employee position. Critical Employees are considered necessary and vital and supports activities that impact City or department operations. This work can be done while at a designated work site or while working at an alternate work location. Critical employees who are able to work at an alternative work location are required to do so. Schedules may be modified, and employees may be reassigned to another area during extraordinary situations or emergency conditions to provide essential services.

Preferred Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications:

• Current third level (expert) support and experience implementing, operating, managing, monitoring, documenting and troubleshooting complex networks:
  • Switches (preferably Cisco)
  • Routers (routing protocols: BGP , OSPF , EIGRP , and VXLAN )
  • NGFW (preferably Palo Alto)
  • Wireless networks: Cisco (controlled by DNA and ISE ) and Aruba ClearPass
  • Network access controls: Radius/ TACACS and MFA administration.
  • Software-defined networks: Cisco DNA , and ACI .
  • Load balancers (preferably A10)
  • DNS (preferably Infoblox or BIND )
  
  
  
• Current intermediate or expert experience with automation of work processes and procedures using scripting languages.
• Knowledge of procedures related to regulatory controls, such as North American Electric Reliability ( NERC ) regulations, Critical Infrastructure Protection ( CIP ), Occupational Safety and Health Administration ( OSHA ), Federal Information Security Management Act ( FISMA ), Sarbanes-Oxley Act ( SOX ), National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ), or others.
• Experience creating and maintaining network documentation.
• Experience communicating network infrastructure content to various stakeholders.

Other:

• Ability to travel to more than one work location.

Duties, Functions and Responsibilities
Essential duties and functions, pursuant to the Americans with Disabilities Act, may include the following. Other related duties may be assigned.

Develops the vision, strategy, conceptual and logical designs, roadmaps, and other architectural deliverables for the domain area (e.g., business, data, solutions, infrastructure, etc.)

Defines the principles that guide technology decisions for the enterprise in their domain.

Designs the implementation of a technical architecture based on business requirements and IT strategies, as well as rectify gaps and pain points within the current state.

Works on high-level projects, ensuring processes align with the domain focused architectural strategy and business strategy

Guides project team members in the implementation of the architecture

Serves as the deepest technology expert in their respective domains and as such, are involved in or lead technology strategy, migration, integration and evolution of the technical infrastructure

Collaborates closely with other architects and engineers to ensure alignment of domain architectures and activities with the broader enterprise architecture and strategy

Leads and contributes to the domain technical and business discussions relative to future architecture direction.

Analyzes the current technology environment to detect critical deficiencies and recommend solutions for improvement.

Leads the evaluation and selection of technology and products, as well as the design of standard configurations for given domain.

Leads and facilitates the domain's architecture governance process based on Enterprise Architecture's governance structure.

Responsibilities- Supervision and/or Leadership Exercised:

• May provide leadership, work assignments, evaluation, training, and guidance to others.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Must possess required knowledge, skills, abilities, and experience and be able to explain and demonstrate, with or without reasonable accommodations, that the essential functions of the job can be performed.

• Knowledge of leading architecture practices and critical architecture deliverables.
• Knowledge of system development life cycle ( SDLC ) methodologies (e.g., waterfall, spiral, agile software development, rapid prototyping, incremental).
• Knowledge and/or experience participating in architecture governance forums.
• Knowledge and/or exposure to how information and technology has been applied to create value for an organization (regardless of industry). Preferably different types of technologies.
• Knowledge of domain specific processes, procedures, critical supporting activities, and risks.
• Knowledge of computer science, information technology standards and controls, and technology frameworks and trends.
• Knowledge of architecture methodologies (e.g., SABSA , Zachman, TOGAF ) and modeling languages (such as UML and ArchiMate).
• Knowledge and experience designing conceptual and logical design and translating work between different levels of abstraction.
• Knowledge of various development languages (e.g., Java, Go, Python, JavaScript, HTML , CSS ).
• Knowledge of various database technologies (e.g., MySQL, MongoDB, Oracle).
• Ability to lead financial analysis, architecture evaluation, solutions delivery orchestration, project management, road mapping, risk management, interdependency management, agile methodologies, information security, cloud computing infrastructure, data architecture skills.
• Ability to apply multiple technical solutions to enable future-state business capabilities that, in turn, drive targeted business outcomes.
• Ability to quickly comprehend the functions, capabilities and financial impact of existing, new and emerging technologies that enable and drive new business designs and models.
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment and lead cross-functional teams, with the proven ability to work effectively with diverse stakeholders.
• Ability to work effectively with different types of scenarios and challenges and to adapt within a variety of changing situations, while working with individuals and groups.
• Ability to adjust approach based on internal and external dynamics, and an acute perception of the dimensions of business issues.
• Ability to synthesize facts, theories, trends, inferences and key issues and/or themes in complex and variable situations and to recognize abstract patterns and relationships among apparently unrelated entities and situations.
• Ability to leverage intellectual curiosity to inform solutions and innovate.
• Ability to take responsibility for personal growth and acquire strategies for gaining new knowledge, behaviors and skills.
• Ability to adhere to required compliance to all change management policies and procedures.
• Ability to adhere to required compliance to all information security policies and procedures.

Criminal Background Investigation This position has been approved for a Criminal Background Investigation. EEO/ADA
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