IT Solution Architect Italy
- Roma
- Tempo indeterminato
- Full time
- Guarantee consistency of technical architecture
- Ensures compliancy with the enterprise architecture methodology, technical design process, design principles & rules and relevant IT standards & norms
- Applies a frugal approach to the design process, by promoting reuse of architecture components & patterns and favoring cost efficient & sustainable architecture designs
- Advocates technical design choices to ensure the coherence of this evolution for all Thales Alenia Space countries
- Contributes to the capitalization and sharing of knowledge on the Information System (through modeling, documentation, communications, trainings)
- Proposes new additions and updates to the architecture principles & rules repository
- Participates actively to the architecture governance process, from demand to delivery
- Advise upon technical architectures & solutions
- Designs One-TAS technical architectures in response to a business project or architecture change requests
- Analyzes and checks the technical impacts of the proposed architecture solution and their coherence with the existing architecture elements for all countries (As-Is & To-Be analysis)
- Proposes technical architecture designs that respect the contextual constraints: priority, time, resources, organization & data
- Informs stakeholders about any issues with the current technical solutions being designed and implemented
- Collaborates with the IT & Security teams to ensure that that proposed technical architecture corresponds to expected performance, adaptability & interoperability objectives
- Facilitates the architecture design, risk assessment & security validation process and documents architecture decisions in the decision log
- Supports, provides expertise and performs verifications during the implementation phase (roll-out), before delivery in production
- Innovation
- Researches upon current and emerging technologies in relation to technical areas agreed upon by Management
- Identifies & proposes opportunities/implementation use-cases for which the enterprise could generate sustainable benefits or resolve recurrent issues with emerging technologies or architecture designs
- Participates in proof of concepts
- Strong skills in Infrastructure domain (Storage, Backup, Data mngt, Virtualization, and security constraints)
- Mass Storage Units : Block and File-Services oriented units.
- Data storage structuration : Gold / Bronze data storage services.
- Block Storage SAN : FC and iSCSI technologies, Topology design, FC network design, FC SAN geoclustering, FC SAN switching architecture, FC SAN Zoning reference architecture for backends, including strategic reservations for roadmaps evolutions.
- Deduplication mass storage units and long distance data replication.
- HCI / SDS Storage infrastructures.
- Object Storage : S3/S3+ data storage ( ECS / Scality / CEPH )
- Usual vendors technology skills required : Dell/EMC / HPE / Brocade / Nutanix / VMware / …
- Backup infrastructure architecture for Physical servers.
- Backup infrastructure architecture for Virtual servers.
- Backup infrastructure architecture for End users laptop.
- Data archiving and long term data retention architecture, including data availability over media generation lifecycles..
- Backup knowledge on physical and virtual Tapes and Tapes-Drives, physical and virtual Robotic libraries. FC SAN topology for Tape-Drives.
- DRP via backup infrastructure : infrastructure impact analysis to reach Thales Corp. DLO/RTO requirements, data geo-locations, local and global catastrophic event identification and impacts. “PAG” redaction for IT.
- Usual vendors technology skills required : Atempo Time Navigator / Atempo Digital Archive / Veeam Backup & Replication / Veeam One / Avamar / …
- Legacy servers architecture and sizing
- HCI virtualization (Nutanix / VSAN) architecture and sizing
- Legacy Virtualization ESXi node sizing
- Legacy VMware vSPHERE cluster architecture.
- HCI VMware vSAN architecture
- HCI Nutanix architecture
- VMware NSX architecture & security features.
- VMware vREALIZE automation suite
- Skills on Docker / Kubernetes architecture requirements.
- Skills on network overlays : VLAN, VxLAN, Flanel, Calicot, GENEVE
- Skills on stateless / persistent architectures and storage impact (PV, PVC).
- Skills on Rancher / Ansible / Terraform / Packer / GoVC requirements and architecture
- Skills on Elastic Search / Influxdb requirements and architecture
- Backup and recovery for metadata and data
- ….
- Energy and Thermal constraints / specifications.
- Electrical power balancing architecture and rules.
- Equipment location definition to increase service availability.
- Data room architecture document redaction.
- TOGAF
- VMware Certified Professional/Advanced Professional
- Network Virtualization (VCP-NV)
- Datacenter (VCP-DCV)
- Cloud Management & Automation (VCP-CMA)
- Security (VCP-Security)
- Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert
- Google Professional Cloud Network Engineer or Professional Cloud Architect
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional
- Cisco CCNP Enterprise
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to build good relationship with clients/operational managers and colleagues
- Ability to gather and assimilate information
- Problem-solving aptitude
- Organizational and leadership skills
- Assist with solving technical problems when they arise
- Ensure the implementation of agreed architecture and infrastructure
- Address technical concerns, ideas and suggestions
- Italian
- English
- Ability to write IT documents and to attend or manage a meeting in Italian and/or in English. The language for all architectures studies in English.
- French [Nice to have]
- Proven experience as a Senior Architect (minimum 5 years)