Lead Platform Architect

(Infrastructure Architecture, Load Balancers, F5, Microservices, Tomcat, Network, SSL)

We are searching for a Lead Platform Architect to join our team who are engaged at the beginning of the analysis and design phase to work with the application teams and other critical teams. The aim is to ensure the completed infrastructure and application architecture aligns with the companies security, scalability, reliability, and availability standards.

Major Accountabilities for this role:

Responsible for gathering requirements, conducting infrastructural analysis, and producing robust designs that adhere to approved technologies, and ensuring the design meets all technology and security policies.

Responsible for meeting with peers, engineers, application team(s) and user(s), to determine that all the high-level requirements have been met.

Responsible for generating products such as Technical Architecture Documents, technical memos, logical flows, and models to keep the users, architects, and the engineers constantly up to date and in agreement on the architecture and infrastructure layout of an application, system, or platform.

Responsible for ensuring that all architectural products and products with architectural input are maintained in the most current state and never allowed to become obsolete.

Responsible for implementing, managing, and supporting application infrastructure components while leveraging current standards and best practices.

In charge of resolving Internet architectural and operational problems impacting infrastructure and product availability and performance globally.

Leads and collaborates to achieve the definition of new standards.

Responsible for researching and evaluating new technology for possible deployment in Internet infrastructure.

May assume lead and total accountability for ongoing regional projects as assigned; including responsibility for planning; time and cost control; resource utilization and implementation.

May contribute to incident/problem diagnosis and root cause analysis.

May provide input into performance tuning; capacity planning and configuration management for components.

Experience Required:

Advanced knowledge of Web application architecture and project delivery.

Advanced knowledge of how the Java Virtual Machine works, how Garbage collection works.

Advanced knowledge of load balancers and web application Firewalls

Advanced knowledge of network and operating system principles

Vast knowledge of Middleware technologies (Web Servers, Application Servers, Queue Managers, Messaging, Caching)

Working knowledge of Database technologies.

Working knowledge of cloud technologies

Solid knowledge of techniques or methodologies to achieve non-functional requirements like reliability, availability, resilience, performance, security.

Working knowledge of Role Based Access Control, Authentication and Authorization mechanisms.

Proficient in root cause analysis and troubleshooting.

The role is an initial 12 month contract with the view to extend.

The role is based in Dublin and the expectation for on-site work is 2-3 days per week.

For further details and a full job description please apply today and we will give you a call to discuss.

(Infrastructure Architecture, Load Balancers, F5, Microservices, Tomcat, Network, SSL)