Infrastructure Architect

Overview

As an Infrastructure Architect, you will be responsible for defining and maintaining guidelines and frameworks for all infrastructure aspects of architecture within our organization. Additionally, you will be tasked with establishing blueprints and designs for solutions that involve infrastructure aspects, supporting the development of our company's products and services. This is a position that offers an exciting opportunity to contribute to the growth and success of our organization.

Reporting to the Senior Manager Solution Engineer, you will join the Design, Innovation and Architecture (DIA) Team of SITA For Aircraft.

Are you ready to be part of the future?

What you will do

• Define and maintain guidelines and frameworks for all infrastructure aspects of architecture, ensuring compliance with industry standards and best practices.
• Propose and define evolutions of the guidelines and processes surrounding architecture of platforms used in SITA For Aircraft
• Design infrastructure architecture solutions, both for Cloud environments as well as private Data Centres, taking into consideration the company's products and services requirements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gather requirements and provide infrastructure engineering expertise during the design and development stages.
• Design and create infrastructure blueprints and designs that align with business objectives and meet customer and product needs.
• Conduct thorough assessments of existing platform infrastructure, identifying areas for improvement and proposing innovative solutions.
• Stay updated with the latest advancements and trends in platform engineering and evaluate their potential applications within the organization.
• Accompany the evolutions of the platforms by contributing to the preliminary studies for these to take place, in conjunction with colleagues in the operational domain
• Provide technical support and guidance to other teams, assisting with infrastructure-related inquiries and troubleshooting.
• Ensure platform/infrastructure security measures are in place, including ACLs, resource isolation, and control systems, and conduct regular security audits.
• Collaborate with vendors and third-party providers to evaluate and select platform-related hardware and software solutions.
• Document platforms configurations, designs, and processes, maintaining accurate and up-to-date documentation.
• Establish and maintain a cartography of the practices in place with regards to platform architecture among the various products, data centers, and environments in SFA

Qualifications

Who you are

• Minimum of 5 years infrastructure engineering or system administrator experience in a solution development capacity.
• A prior experience in an Infrastructure / Platform Architect role or similar would-be a plus
• Understanding of Virtualization approaches, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, etc..), Operating Systems Architecture, Container technologies, Orchestration frameworks as well as the main Azure PaaS products. 
• Ability to perform PoCs as well as setup sandboxes environments to perform trade-offs of potential new technology in the frame of their assessment.
• Prior hand-on experience with both self-managed and Cloud (i.e., Azure) infrastructure deployments and implementation.
• Knowledge of Cloud Specific (Azure is preferred) artefacts
• Proven experience in platform and infrastructure engineering or related roles, with a focus on designing and implementing complex solutions.
• Strong knowledge of Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, RabbitMQ, MongoDB, SQL Server administration, among others.
• Proficiency on the Linux command line and with the Linux operating system.
• Familiarity with infrastructure security principles, tools, and technologies.
• Certifications from Cloud Infrastructure vendors (Azure preferred) are highly desirable.

What we offer

SITA’s workplace is all about diversity: many different countries and cultures are represented in our workforce, and colleagues who’ve been working here for decades collaborate with those just out of college and early in their careers. SITA is a place of change and constant improvement, where we're always pushing ourselves to find better ways of doing things: smarter, quicker, easier, for us and our customers and for their customers too.

And we offer all the good stuff you’d expect like holidays, bonus, flexible benefits, medical policy, pension plan and access to world class learning.

Welcome to SITA

SITA is the world’s leading specialist in air transport communications and information technology. We don’t just connect the global aviation industry. We apply decades of experience and expertise to address almost every core business, operational, baggage, and passenger process in air transport.

We design, build, and support technology solutions all with one vision to create easy air travel every step of the way. As an organization, we cover 95% of all international air travel destinations and work with over 2,800 air transport and government customers in every corner of the globe. Are you ready to explore the opportunities?

Keywords: Architect, Azure, Infrastructure