Job Description

Consultant, IT Architecture
Job Summary: Talent Software Services is in search of a Consultant, IT Architecture for a contract position in Austin, TX. The opportunity will be one year with a strong chance for a long-term extension.
Primary Responsibilities/Accountabilities:

• Implements technical solutions and management processes to achieve overall objectives by means of implementing systems or enterprise- wide solutions, using the company hardware/software products and/or processes and methodologies Integrates solutions and strategies within the customer environment, based on the analysis of customer business goals, objectives, needs, and existing systems infrastructure Identifies additional product/services sales opportunities in customer organization
• Assists the sales organisation and related Practice Areas as technical/industry subject matter experts
• Role requires skills and understanding of the industry's best practices and methodologies to tie dissimilar components together into an aggregate system. Primary expert to construct the specific solution, scope document, risk profile, and corresponding financials. Uses expertise to construct specific and detailed solutions that encompass process, technology, project and staffing plans
• Constructs risk assessments and corresponding remediation plans relative to custom solution proposals
• Participates in the construction of financial models that align with custom solution proposals Composes applicable services agreements (e.g. Statements of Work, SLA documentation, etc.) that specify processes, technology, staffing, deliverables, commitments, risk, and project management aspects of a solution Supports deal negotiation and closure to include transition support to service delivery Serves as a services subject matter expert to both internal and external customers Follows all organizational standard operating procedures relative to cost modeling, approvals and reviews, and all other associated workflow, documentation and deliverables Participates in applicable win-loss reviews and incorporates learnings into future solutions
• Leads a technical team in developing solutions to complex business problems. Leads the design of multiple service areas or technologies within a broader services solution; leads overall technical implementation for large and complex engagements
• Contributes to the sales pursuit strategy. Participates or leads in customer presentations at the senior leadership level or higher
• May participate or lead in establishing operational plans and processes for the group. Leads research, discovery, planning and implementation efforts to improve business processes. Mentors less experienced team members
• May be involved in international sales opportunities. Provides expertise on the availability and viability of third party components and services. Ensures third party components comply with established architecture. Implements the information technology architecture and the total systems solutions to the enterprise-wide systems requirements of the customer. Participates in the Solution Architecture Review for projects, applications and infrastructure. Defines standardized reference architectures for processes and technology

Qualifications:

• 8 to 12 years of professional experience with a bachelor's degree in computer science or relevant field
• Strong working experience building Infrastructure automation using Ansible, Terraform or others in Private/On-Prem Data center leveraging Baremetal servers
• Strong experience with Linux and storage fundamentals, Kubernetes networking, storage RBAC, POD Security, Operator SDK/Use of Fabric8 API.
• Knowledge of core networking fundamentals, BGP/eBGP, calico networking, service mesh (e.g., Istio, NGINX)
• Programming - Shell scripting, Python, HELM, Automation - Ansible, CICD
• Strong working experience with application architecture, HA, DR, Infrastructure services (DNS, Load Balancer, Firewall, TLS certs, web servers, reverse proxies, GIT
• Broad knowledge in systems telemetry and monitoring (ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace Splunk, etc.)
• Experience with Agile methodologies, effective working independently and in a virtual team setting.

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