Jobs in Ireland

Solutions Architect (Security)

Permanent fulltime role

Dublin City Center (Hybrid – 2 days per week onsite)

The role:

The Senior Solutions Architect is responsible for leading the architecture and design of infrastructure Projects, and to participate and advise during the implementation of these projects to ensure successful deployment to the production environment.

This role is responsible for providing architectural direction to Security, Application, Infrastructure and DevOps projects. Working as part of the broader architecture team the successful candidate will ensure all designs produced are in line with approved strategies, roadmaps and industry best practice and that all appropriate policies and standards are applied to the design.

Knowledge / Experience / Skills

• Significant experience in a technical role working as a Technical Solutions Specialist for infrastructure.
• 8+ Years working in IS, with a strong Infrastructure Project delivery record
• A proven track record in working effectively as part of a team within formal project management methodologies and processes
• Demonstrate ability to collaborate effectively with staff at all levels to drive a better design solution
• Design experience and have participated as the technical lead in the delivery of infrastructure solutions, and be able to reference successful implementations.
• Possess an industry standard security certification, or in the process of obtaining one
• Leadership qualities, and be capable of sound and timely decision making, influencing individuals, and organising and leading teams as required.
• Good communicator, both verbal and written, and ideally have experience of producing design documentation, and leading technical discussions with project teams. The core language is English.
• Broad technical knowledge of a range of Application and Infrastructure disciplines across Storage/Compute/security suites and Networking technologies. working knowledge of a number of key platforms and technologies, including but not limited to
  • VMWare NSX
  • Cisco Datacentre, Campus LAN, WAN and Wireless infrastructure
  • Network security stacks (Micro segmentation, Firewalling, IPS, Encryption technologies)
  • Container networking
  • Azure IaaS / PaaS
  • SaaS
  • ZScaler Technologies
  • Hybrid cloud environment