Network Architect. Preacta Recruitment. Sydney NSW. Architects (Information & Communication Technology). Contract/Temp.
Add expected salary to your profile for insights: Your job As Network Architect, you play a crucial role in moving business forward. You will work on documenting the Current State Architecture and next-generation Network Architecture. You will focus on understanding the business requirements and how they most effectively translate into Architectures and Designs that align to our standards. We are evolving our IT landscape to ensure future-proofing by actively integrating new technologies.
Key focuses are as follows: Establish a solid foundation. We have constantly grown our business in the past, driven by tightening regulation and the need for more structured controls. We need to establish a firm foundation of architectural standards covering data centers, network topology, building blocks, demarcations, and traffic flows.
Structure. Our organization is constantly working towards better controls to further strengthen our solid service delivery and maintain regulatory compliance across the globe. You will help structure and create approaches, processes and workflows to aid with regular routine tasks like capacity review, LCM planning, etc.
Evolve. We are constantly modernizing and reinventing our IT infrastructure. As the Network Architect, you will be involved in creating and documenting solutions that identify opportunities for enhancements and growth while maintaining a stable current state. Based on existing architecture, you will work on reviews and help create evolutionary paths to integrate new requirements.
In alignment with our strategies and architectural principles:
Your role will be to create, update, and structure designs, documents, data structures, and processes to model our environment comprehensively in a well-organized fashion following internal documentation conventions and using existing tools. You will explore the environment with the help of various teams to create comprehensive documentation covering our technical landscape.
You will furthermore evaluate existing documentation from our outsourcing partner to ensure completeness and alignment of the documentation with the overall cause. You will, together with lead engineers, identify and create proposals for a future state architecture for network and network security building blocks.
You develop and maintain architectures in line with global target architecture, global policies, security standards, and best practices to contribute to and increase the reliability, security, flexibility, quality, and cost efficiency of the global organization. Are you fit to further shape our globally spanning and challengingly complex application landscape?
What we need: You have a unique combination of practical experience with a passion for technology and have a strong interest in working in a global business. Your technology knowledge is up to date, but you are also aware of traditional approaches to allow you to bridge the gap. At the same time, you realize that our systems need to be up and running; the markets, our customers, and our users depend on us.
You have a minimum of 5 years of work experience as a network architect within a comparably complex environment (high stakes, in- & external stakeholders, complex IT environment, different time zones, and different cultures).
You have experience with general IT architecture and can think on a conceptual level. You have strategic and analytical skills and the ability to understand, inspire, and activate others.
What we offer: We offer you a job in an environment that is IT-minded and where IT plays a decisive role in success. You report directly into the Product Owner Network Services and work closely with the Global Technology Architect, Lead Engineers, and other members of the Security and Architecture community on an ongoing basis to link knowledge across various domains.
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Reach out to me directly at oliver@preactarecruitment.com or 0455198736
Posted: 26-09-2017 Location: Bellville,Northern Suburbs,South Africa