Company Overview

World Wide Technology (WWT), a global technology solutions provider with $20 billion in annual revenue, combines the power of strategy, execution and partnership to accelerate transformational outcomes for large public and private organizations around the world. Through its Advanced Technology Center, a collaborative ecosystem of the world's most advanced hardware and software solutions, WWT helps customers and partners conceptualize, test and validate innovative technology solutions for the best business outcomes and then deploys them at scale through its 4 million square feet of global warehousing, distribution and integration space. With over 10,000 employees and more than 55 locations around the world, WWT's culture, built on a set of core values and established leadership philosophies, has been recognized 11 years in a row by Fortune and Great Place to Work® for its unique blend of determination, innovation and leadership for diversity and inclusion. With this culture at its foundation, WWT bridges the gap between business and technology to make a new world happen for its customers, partners and communities.

Position: Architect

Location: Plano, TX

Duration: 12 Months with possible extensions

Job Description

Leads and/or participates in the design, development, and implementation of complex system engineering activities involving cross-functional technical support, systems programming and data center capabilities. Responsible for components of highly complex engineering and/or analytical tasks and activities.

Establishes input/output processes and working parameters for hardware/software compatibility, coordination of subsystems design, and integration of total system. Viewed as a technology subject matter expert; able to provide and communicate complex technology solutions across differing audiences including technical, managerial, business executives, and/or vendors. Will have responsibility for multiple, complex projects.

Responsible for the application infrastructure architecture must have high availability, Load balance, resiliency, scalability of web infrastructure to meet corporate LOB objectives

Identifying technical requirements for new projects like Hardware requirements, server’s operating system, Authentication and Authorization security, IIS configurations, Firewall connectivity, Load Balancer settings, DNS registrations, security severity, application dependencies, databases, scheduled jobs, and content replication

Addressing production issues and troubleshooting applications incidents of any Priority1 / Priority2 and Priority3 incidents

Managing team, assign / review the project’s design, requirements, workflow, and documents with the team and working closely with multiple teams for implementation

Creating design documents, technical documents, deployment documents and share with deployment and production support teams

Identifying risk associated with LOB applications and escalation to senior management and providing solutions to mitigate risks

Required Skills

3 - 5 years of experience in design and engineering solutions for large business capabilities – Expertise in Payment and Merchant Services capabilities are A+

Expert experience and knowledge in design and engineering of applications hosted at external cloud such as Azure and AWS – not a must have but this requirement is priority

Effective Communication – Clear, Concise and the ability to articulate ideas

Should be able to lead and actively participate in conference calls with technical and business users

Flexible to work in different shifts, including rotational night shift and weekend support

Experience in Application Lifecycle Management Automation tools and integration using one or more of the following tools: Ansible by Red Hat, Jenkins or XLR

Working knowledge/expertise with JIRA, NEXUS and ALM (Application Lifecycle Management)

Exposure and familiarity with software development lifecycle methodologies (Agile)

Candidate must be self-motivated, independent, detail oriented, able to work with little supervision and a responsible team-player

Willing and able to work in a 24 X 7 environment including after hours and weekend support to support multiple time zones

Computer networking skills and working knowledge: Load balancers, firewall, etc.

Degree in Computer Science, Electronics, Communication, Information Technology or equivalent education

Understanding/experience with web application communication protocols - SOAP, HTTP, XML etc

Working knowledge of application setup, support, and configuration

Desired Skills

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or related field, or an equivalent combination of education and work experience.

Multiple years of demonstrated experience in Systems Administration or Systems Engineering.

2+ years in a technical position using Cloud technologies

Knowledge of Oracle and/or SQL databases

Linux (RHEL, CentOS) experience

Deep understanding of cloud computing technologies across Windows and Linux, with demonstrated hands-on experience on one or more of the following domains:

Need Azure Core Platform: Compute, Storage, Networking

Monitoring, alerting and logging tools, and build/release processes highly preferred