A Joint Venture between Thales (67%) and Leonardo (33%), Thales Alenia Space is a global space manufacturer delivering, for more than 40 years, high-tech solutions for telecommunications, navigation, Earth Observation, environmental management, exploration, science and orbital infrastructures.
Thanks to our diversity of skills, talents and cultures, our customers (governments, institutions, space agencies, telecommunications operators), therefore have Space to Connect, Secure Defend, Observe Protect, Explore, Travel Navigate.
Job : IT Solution Architect Mission Within the Enterprise Architecture department, the IT Solution Architect participates during the design and build phases of projects in order to guarantee the global consistency of the enterprise IT technical architecture.
The Technical Solution Architect's role is to design solutions that satisfy the business needs, whilst assessing the impacts upon current systems architecture and working with the IT Security directorate to ensure compliance with IT standards, norms and rules.
We are looking for a IT Solution Architect to join our Network Security squad and implement technical architecture designs that will improve our organization's network infrastructure, and ultimately support upcoming business IT transformations.
Responsibilities Guarantee consistency of technical architecture Ensures compliancy with the enterprise architecture methodology, technical design process, design principles rules and relevant IT standards norms Applies a frugal approach to the design process, by promoting reuse of architecture components patterns and favoring cost efficient sustainable architecture designs Advocates technical design choices to ensure the coherence of this evolution for all Thales Alenia Space countries Contributes to the capitalization and sharing of knowledge on the Information System (through modeling, documentation, communications, trainings) Proposes new additions and updates to the architecture principles rules repository Participates actively to the architecture governance process, from demand to delivery Advise upon technical architectures solutions Designs One-TAS technical architectures in response to a business project or architecture change requests Analyzes and checks the technical impacts of the proposed architecture solution and their coherence with the existing architecture elements for all countries (As-Is To-Be analysis) Proposes technical architecture designs that respect the contextual constraints: priority, time, resources, organization data Informs stakeholders about any issues with the current technical solutions being designed and implemented Collaborates with the IT Security teams to ensure that that proposed technical architecture corresponds to expected performance, adaptability interoperability objectives Facilitates the architecture design, risk assessment security validation process and documents architecture decisions in the decision log Supports, provides expertise and performs verifications during the implementation phase (roll-out), before delivery in production Innovation Researches upon current and emerging technologies in relation to technical areas agreed upon by Management Identifies proposes opportunities/implementation use-cases for which the enterprise could generate sustainable benefits or resolve recurrent issues with emerging technologies or architecture designs Participates in proof of concepts Technical Skills As a member of the Solution Architecture squad, the IT Solution Architect is involved in the following technical domains: Strong skills in Infrastructure domain (Storage, Backup, Data mngt, Virtualization, and security constraints) Storage : (DAS / NAS / SAN / HCI / SDS) : Mass Storage Units : Block and File-Services oriented units.
Data storage structuration : Gold / Bronze data storage services.
Block Storage SAN : FC and iSCSI technologies, Topology design, FC network design, FC SAN geoclustering, FC SAN switching architecture, FC SAN Zoning reference architecture for backends, including strategic reservations for roadmaps evolutions.
Deduplication mass storage units and long distance data replication.
HCI / SDS Storage infrastructures.
Object Storage : S3/S3+ data storage ( ECS / Scality / CEPH ) Usual vendors technology skills required : Dell/EMC / HPE / Brocade / Nutanix / VMware / ...
Backup / DRP : (Physical / Virtual / End users PC) : Backup infrastructure architecture for Physical servers.
Backup infrastructure architecture for Virtual servers.
Backup infrastructure architecture for End users laptop.
Data archiving and long term data retention architecture, including data availability over media generation lifecycles.
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Backup knowledge on physical and virtual Tapes and Tapes-Drives, physical and virtual Robotic libraries.
FC SAN topology for Tape-Drives.
DRP via backup infrastructure : infrastructure impact analysis to reach Thales Corp.
DLO/RTO requirements, data geo-locations, local and global catastrophic event identification and impacts.
PAG" redaction for IT.
Usual vendors technology skills required : Atempo Time Navigator / Atempo Digital Archive / Veeam Backup Replication / Veeam One / Avamar / ...
Servers Platforms : Dell/EMC / HPE platforms.
Network and SAN interfaces.
Legacy servers architecture and sizing HCI virtualization (Nutanix / VSAN) architecture and sizing Legacy Virtualization ESXi node sizing Virtualization : VMware full stack Legacy VMware vSPHERE cluster architecture.
HCI VMware vSAN architecture HCI Nutanix architecture VMware NSX architecture security features.
VMware vREALIZE automation suite BigData Infrastructure : Skills on Docker / Kubernetes architecture requirements.
Skills on network overlays : VLAN, VxLAN, Flanel, Calicot, GENEVE Skills on stateless / persistent architectures and storage impact (PV, PVC).
Skills on Rancher / Ansible / Terraform / Packer / GoVC requirements and architecture Skills on Elastic Search / Influxdb requirements and architecture Backup and recovery for metadata and data.
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Datacenter Architecture and Servitudes specifications : Energy and Thermal constraints / specifications.
Electrical power balancing architecture and rules.
Equipment location definition to increase service availability.
Data room architecture document redaction.
Desirable architecture technology certifications TOGAF VMware Certified Professional/Advanced Professional Network Virtualization (VCP-NV) Datacenter (VCP-DCV) Cloud Management Automation (VCP-CMA) Security (VCP-Security) Microsoft Certified Azure Solutions Architect Expert Google Professional Cloud Network Engineer or Professional Cloud Architect AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Professional Cisco CCNP Enterprise Managerial And Behavioral Skills Excellent communication skills Ability to build good relationship with clients/operational managers and colleagues Ability to gather and assimilate information Problem-solving aptitude Organizational and leadership skills Assist with solving technical problems when they arise Ensure the implementation of agreed architecture and infrastructure Address technical concerns, ideas and suggestions Languages Italian English Ability to write IT documents and to attend or manage a meeting in Italian and/or in English.
The language for all architectures studies in English.
French [Nice to have] Experience Proven experience as a Senior Architect (minimum 5 years) At Thales Alenia Space we provide CAREERS and not only jobs.
With Thales Alenia Space employing around 8,900 employees in 10 countries with 17 sites in Europe and a plant in the US, our mobility policy enables employees each year to develop their careers at home and abroad.
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