Senior System Architect

Santa Clara, CA

Employment Type

Full-Time

Job Description

The CO Senior Network/Systems Architect will provide a wide array of services to our largest named accounts and will also be an escalation point for engineers who need technical assistance. Also the candidate will play a crucial role with assisting sales with selling, design, and implementation of Utility/Managed services.

Responsibilities

- Demonstrate technical and advisory leadership for customers, sales, and other consultants
- Successfully support complex customer accounts or company projects, bridging between the needs of the customer and the company.
- Support customer solution implementations that meet and often exceed technical requirements, target schedule milestones and budgets
- Provide training and mentoring to other consultants as they progress in mastering their professional skills and as they learn company and industry best practices

Required Skills

- Leads Engagement Teams composed of Sales Account Managers, Sales Engineers, and Business Development Managers in identifying, recommending and implementing customized solutions of moderate size, scope and complexity.
- Provide project management leadership in the implementation of customer solutions consisting of supervision, budget, scheduling, testing and quality assurance tasks.
- Serves as lead customer advisor on projects requiring professional knowledge of one technical discipline and broad knowledge of company in-house services and technical capabilities.
- Participation in the teams on-call rotation
-BS or BA from an accredited college or university, preferably in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent work experience.

Desired Skills

- Strong Customer-Facing skills
- Extensive experience and expertise in installing, tuning, patching, managing, capacity planning
- Extensive experience and expertise in Solaris, IAX, Windows, SCO, Unix, Linux
- Extensive experience and expertise in Routing and Switching (802.1Q and ISL), Routing Protocols (OSPF, BGP, EGRP, and ISIS), MPLS, ISO, Security mythology, IDS, VPN clients and servers as well as familiarity with Cisco and Foundry
- Extensive experience and expertise in Apache server, SSH, Pearl, C, C++, Kshell, bashshell, Python
- Extensive experience and expertise in hardware platforms such as SUN, Compaq, Cisco, Alteon, F5, Foundry, Extreme, Juniper, HP, Veritas, Veritas backup, Veritas cluster, MC, Pana, SQL admin and MySQL
- Experience in Veritas, Veritas backup, Nmap Veritas cluster, MC, Pana, SQL admin and MySQL
- Technical Writing
- A clear understanding of the fundamentals of external storage arrays, disk layout, and SAN switching, as well as demonstrated experience working with the same
- Experience working with blade servers and OS virtualization products (VMWare, Virtuoso, etc.)
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to understand customer needs and requests.
- Data gathering and analysis skills to make recommendations and presentations to middle management.
- In-depth knowledge and competency of one technical field: security, systems databases, application development, telecommunications, or networking and working knowledge in several areas.
- Ability to lead small engagement teams.
- Ability to perform effectively in high pressure situations.

Address

  • City: Santa Clara
  • State: CA

Contact

  • Recruiter: Chad Swanson
  • Telephone: 415.377.7362
  • E-Mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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582 Market Street, Suite 415
San Francisco, CA 94104
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190 Wiget Dr.

Walnut Creek, CA

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San Francisco Office

582 Market Street, Suite 415
San Francisco, CA 94104
T: 415-408-5544

New York Metro Office

30 Oakwood Drive

Norwalk, CT 06850

T. 203.951.0266

Walnut Creek Office

190 Wiget Dr.

Walnut Creek, CA

T. 415.377.7362