IT Infrastructure Architect (Network Engineer III)

About This Position

Job Description

IT Infrastructure Architect

Purpose

This position proactively and holistically lead and support architecture activities that guide the development and management of solutions, as well as provide the leadership, facilitation, analysis, and conceptual and logical design tasks required for the development of the domain area. Translating department and technical requirements into architectural blueprints and documenting all solution architecture design and analysis are critical to ensure City IT products and solutions meet the needs of constituents and align to a strategy that will prepare the City for future success.

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 - Supervisor 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.

Minimum Qualifications

• 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 and Certifications Required

Valid Texas Driver License depending on assignment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Current third level (expert) support and experience implementing, operating, managing, monitoring, documenting and troubleshooting complex networks:

• Switches (Layer 2 and Layer 3, preferably Cisco)

• Routers (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, VXLAN, BGP EVPN)

• Firewalls (NGFW, preferably Palo Alto)

• Wireless networks (multi-campus, preferably Cisco)

• Network access controls: Radius/TACACS, MFA administration, and Cisco ISE.

• 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.

Preferred Certifications

• CCNA, CCNP, PCNSE, PCNSA

Notes to Candidate

Austin Energy is seeking a Network Engineer III (City Title: 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, cloud networking, DNS, VPN’s, etc.

Duties include contributing to designing, implementing, managing, and maintaining a highly comple