Principal – Infrastructure Architect

Position Overview

Verisign helps enable the security, stability, and resiliency of the internet. They are a mission focused, values driven company seeking a Principal – Infrastructure Architect. This is a senior technical position with high visibility and cross-functional responsibility. The role involves working with multiple engineering and security teams, developing solutions for capacity planning, OKRs, and KPIs. The ideal candidate will demonstrate strong interpersonal skills, conflict resolution, negotiation, and prioritization skills.

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Requirements

• Superior interpersonal skills
• Conflict resolution skills
• Negotiation skills
• Prioritization skills
• Ability to work directly with multiple functional engineering and security teams
• Experience with capacity planning, OKRs, and KPIs

Responsibilities

• Authoring capacity strategy documentation for critical on-premise and cloud systems
• Consulting with leadership to create and implement measurable OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) for infrastructure teams
• Design, implement, measure, and make recommendations from KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) and identifying trends and forecasting
• Data modeling and trending in support of organization initiatives
• Producing capacity metrics, trends, and forecasts for enterprise systems
• Providing detailed analysis and explanation of data to senior leadership
• Constructing a data driven approach to budget planning using metrics and KPIs
• Finding opportunities for process improvement and automation to lower operational risks and cost
• Adhering to corporate security standards and contributing to associated infrastructure standards
• Engaging in the prototyping and testing of new capacity architectures and solutions
• Performing research and authoring business cases as the foundation for executive decisions
• Engaging with vendors and contributing to contracts and renewals
• Consulting on plans for life-cycle management and equipment refresh
• Reviewing technical design documents and escalating any non-compliance with standards
• Collaborating with Infrastructure, Security, and other Architecture teams
• Gathering requirements and producing clear choice documentation
• Collecting customer feedback

Application Instructions

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