Senior Domain Architect

Senior Domain Architect - DV Cleared

Primary Location

• Basingstoke

Market rates inside ir35

6 month conntract with likely extension

The Ideal Candidate

We are looking for someone to join a dynamic team and provide expertise in DNS/DHCP and Bluecat. Can you design/implement and provide better, more effective solutions by building upon your existing knowledge and ability? Do you want to be proud to work for a company that respects its people and is at the forefront of technology? We are looking to grow our team with committed people to work in a challenging, but extremely rewarding environment and offer ground-breaking solutions to everyday problems for our customers.

We are looking for Domain Architects with experience of DNS/DNCP infrastructure to work and deliver cutting-edge solutions. The post holder will own all aspects of the architecture, design and implementations of solutions, ensuring they are aligned to the requirements. The work packages will be a combination of delivering requests for change and providing technical proposals to support the impacting process of change requests.

Key Skills

• Proven experience of architecture and design of network infrastructure solutions including DNS, DHCP, IPAM and Bluecat, including hands-on implementation and configuration.
• Proven experience of producing concise technical documentation, high-level and low-level designs as well as build guides.
• Proven experience of working within the programme methodology, through different project stages, troubleshooting technical issues in different test environments and successfully handing solutions or changes over to service support.
• Demonstrable experience to impact requests for change and documenting solutions to the given requirements and customer's vision.
• Experienced in reporting progress and supporting the Project Manager on a day to day basis.
• Proven experience of Linux, and scripting (VBS and PowerShell).
• Understands Microsoft Windows Server DNS & DHCP architecture.
• Desirable to have experience of DNS and DHCP migrations between Windows and Linux.
• Able to provide fourth line support in his area of specialisms as well as to other project and service teams.
• Able to be flexible to provide support as and when required.
• Excellent communications, team player and able to work under pressure.
• Good analysis and problem-solving skills in terms of networking and use of nslookup/dig.
• Can work with minimum supervision and manage multiple stakeholders.
• Experience of working in a secure environment.

Key Performance Indicators

• Demonstrably operates as the overall infrastructure Customer Solution Architect [CSA] for large, complex solutions.
• Regularly has large, complex designs, incorporating trade-offs from the original specification, accepted by the relevant business approval review, without any requirement for design changes.
• Authors design and test documents for large, complex infrastructures, whose risk and cost elements are accepted by the overall CSA or Project Manager.
• Can evidence regular contributions to customer forums, conferences and professional bodies.
• Tangible recognition from customers and/or company sales of being a major influence in the customer choosing the company
• Using company prescribed methodologies, can demonstrate a contribution to the definition of customer overall IT architecture, including new solutions or significant size and complexity and which contain solution components from contributing specialists.
• Regular contribution to, and user of, company knowledge repositories and events.

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