Lead Technical Architect

Lead Technical Architect - Permanent - Berkshire - Excellent Salary

The ability to analyse systems and be able to communicate their setup as well as identify how to modify them to support monitoring and support systems is needed.
The role holder will be required to work with a customer to advise them how to modify their platforms to feed configuration and operation data to risk modelling systems and as such will required good inter-personal and communications skills.
A solid understanding of platform integration issues is essential.

Key Responsibilities:

• Leading & managing a small onsite support team responsible for support of a compact but complex 'Big Data' platform underpinning a customer Cyber Security Operations Centre
• Control of assets including management of licensing & warranty aspects.
• Maintaining and enhancing the platform, liaising with the Design Authority as well as the onsite Customer Technical Lead. This will include proactively suggesting software, system, service and process improvements.
• Providing the necessary management, governance, training, support and technical oversight to ensure that change requests are effectively implemented.
• Producing regular, clear and concise reports (for the customer) on platform performance.
• Analysing performance and stability issues, providing reports to customer and driving remedial actions.
• Liaison with onsite operational analyst team and implement requested fixes and improvements.
• Leading on identification of new security scenarios and access to required data, as well as tuning of data.
• Maintenance of platform Accreditation, including documentation, remedial actions & Accreditor liaison
• Liaison with customer operational IT network and systems teams to integrate and on-board new data sources
• Providing expertise, manpower and mentoring to the end customer to support research, development, and deployment of analytics

For this position the client expects the role holder to be an up-to-date, hands-on practitioner in several of the following areas:-

• Full engineering life-cycle and Systems Engineering (IVV&T) practices from requirements/user story capture and decomposition through to integration, acceptance and customer sign off and associated toolsets
• Experience of producing high/low level designs
• Proven track record of driving standards and best practice
• Software methodologies including Waterfall/V model, Agile, Lean
• Experience in aspects of test engineering such as Continuous Integration Testing, Test Driven Development, Unit and System level testing, performance, soak and smoke testing.
• Ratifying requirements against acceptance criteria
• In depth knowledge of the Windows, Linux or Unix operating systems.
• Linux scripting with Bash (or similar) and preferably at least one other programming language.
• Unix/Linux/Windows system administration
• Big Data systems experience (e.g. ElasticSearch, Hadoop)
• Experience of integration to ensure multiple components of a software project knit together at a system level in a seamless manner.
• Comprehensive knowledge in Operating System security and associated network/platform design, hardening and deployment, including firewalls and IDS/IPS etc.
• Kickstart of linux based components and in-life management using puppet/ansible.
• Patching methodologies and testing.
• Development and deployment of monitoring systems for both in-development and live components (Nagios/SolarWinds/Check_MK) including configuration of agents and SNMP.
• Advanced deployment and configurations of VMware products including ESX, vCenter with VDS and NSX.
• Understanding of storage platforms and protocols, including SAMBA, NFS, FCoE and high availability enterprise grade storage platforms including Netapp & EMC.
• Design and debug of underlying networks and protocols including TCP/IP, firewall theory and packet analysis.
• Design and development of deployment guides.
• Issue management using tools such as Redmine or JIRA.
• Understanding of backup and restoration issues for 24x7 support, including development of documentation for 1st and 2nd line support teams.

Desirable skills:

• An appreciation for Service Management, Service Delivery, Transition to Operations (TTO) and ITIL.
• An awareness of delivering software projects to time, cost and quality.
• External recognition and certification e.g. CISSP, SANS GIAC, Security+, Network+, Linux+, MCSE, CCNA or SSCP

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