Principal - Infrastructure Architect

Verisign helps enable the security, stability, and resiliency of the internet. We are a trusted provider of internet infrastructure services for the networked world and deliver unmatched performance in domain name system (DNS) services.

We are a mission focused, values driven company where each individual can contribute to building a stronger, more secure internet. We offer a dynamic and flexible work environment with competitive benefits and the ability to grow your career.

Verisign is seeking a Principal - Infrastructure Architect to join our architecture organization. This is a senior technical position with high visibility and cross-functional responsibility. Successful applicants must demonstrate superior interpersonal skills, conflict resolution, negotiation, and prioritization skills.

In this role, you will work directly with multiple functional engineering and security teams, developing solutions for capacity planning, OKRs (objective and key results), KPIs (key performance indicators), and other data modeling. Your responsibilities would include engaging with stakeholders to review their systems, prioritizing which systems would benefit the most from comprehensive reviews, performing research and lab testing, reviewing iterations with owning teams to ensure alignment, collaborating with other architects on future changes, and presenting outputs to leadership.

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 and incorporating into architectures

Identifying technical debt and contributing to solutions to modernize

Presenting at open houses and internal events

Participating in recruiting, mentoring, and teaching opportunities, sharing knowledge, and developing others Qualifications

Required:

Bachelors' degree in Computer Science or Engineering required, or equivalent work experience

15+ years of experience in architecture, infrastructure, capacity planning, engineering, or other related areas

Excellent communications and influencing skills, experienced at peer level and 2-3 level up communications

Comfortable presenting data driven recommendations to senior leadership, including the potential risks and benefits

Effective collaborator, able to work with teams of people toward company goals

Excellent analytical and problem-solving capabilities, experienced with driving issues to resolution

Bringing deep technical knowledge of capacity solutions and tooling

Experience with crafting and measuring OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) and KPIs (Key Performance Indicators)

Self-motivated and driven to produce high quality product

Iterative thinking, delivering incremental tangible implementations and designs which others can leverage

Highly adaptable, able to juggle multiple priorities

Proven ability to quickly earn the trust of sponsors and key stakeholders and execute with limited information

Proven ability to mentor and elevate knowledge of others

Familiarity with enterprise tools such as Service Now, Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, GitHub, and PowerPoint Preferred:

20+ years of experience in engineering or consulting roles

5+ years of experience with private and public cloud

Security or cloud certifications such as AWS, Google Cloud, CISSP, or similar

Software engineering experience with products such as Kubernetes, Jenkins, VMware, Docker, or Infrastructure and Orchestration tools

Experience with capacity planning tools such as Prometheus, Chronos, Influx, Grafhana, Telegraf, or Tableau

Experience with enterprise storage tools such as Host Power Tools, Infinimetrics, Purity, Pure1, Navisphere, and Dell Storage Manager

This position is based in our Reston, VA office and offers a hybrid work schedule.

The pay range is $180,700 - $244,500.

The anticipated annual base salary range for this position is noted above, however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience. Verisign offers a discretionary bonus which is based on individual and company performance, and certain roles may be eligible for discretionary stock awards.

Verisign is an equal opportunity employer. That means we recruit, hire, compensate, train, promote, transfer, and administer all terms and conditions of employment without regard to their race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, protected veteran status, disability, or other protected categories under applicable law.

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