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CityFibre
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Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
Systems Architect
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WHAT'S IN IT FOR YOU? When the future is full fibre, it's faster, more affordable and better connected. We're the leading provider of this alternative network infrastructure, building Gigabit cities from the ground up. These cities support mobile operators, businesses and homes, helping them to develop and grow at an accelerated pace. With your ambitious ideas, you'll reduce costs and shape a super-fast network for a super-connected society. With a salary of 65,000 - 80,000 depending on experience, you'll also receive benefits including 25 days holiday, a day off on your birthday, discretionary bonus and private healthcare. Join the CityFibre team and help us bring Britain up to speed! WHAT WILL YOU BE DOING? CityFibre are looking for an experienced, hands on Systems Architect to take responsibility for ensuring that the architectural solutions for our OSS/BSS systems meet business requirements, and that they're achievable within resource and infrastructure constraints. You'll be acting as a subject matter expert to across the business, collecting details requirements and then taking these through the full development lifecycle, delivering complete working systems. You'll also, * Take the technical lead all our software design and implementations, with experience of cloud and on-premise system architecture * Look after OSS / BSS integration, taking responsibility for the interaction / automation between all of CityFibre and partner systems * Make sure any 3rd party solutions / developments commissioned are fit for purpose, and adhere to company standards * Keep up to date with emerging technologies which could support CityFibre in the future * Work with the BA team in gathering other department requirements, including Sales, Network, Operations, Finance and strategic 3rd party suppliers - recommending architecturally viable solutions * Seek system solutions that can be leveraged to meet the business requirements and improve ways of working WHAT WILL YOU BRING? We're looking for someone who has experience as a system/network administrator, with the ability to demonstrate responsibility for the operation of Unix Service and AWS Cloud Solutions. You'll have strong negotiation and relationship building skills when dealing with internal customers, key stakeholders and wider team members with the willingness to get stuck in when supporting and mentoring on all things system based. You'll also have; * AWS, O365, Google and tools such as Jira and ITMS * Excellent design and architecture experience with AWS * Experience with networking hardware protocols standards technologies such as TCP/IP firewalls switches routers, Sofos * Experience within the Internet / Telecoms / Fibre industry - Design authority experience is a must * Demonstrable hands-on experience of either bespoke development or package implementation involving design, development / configuration, environment management and implementation over a selection of: Billing (Like XPAY, Xero), CRM (Salesforce), Workflow / ESB (OpenESB, Cloudhub), Asset Management, RDBMS (MySQL, Oracle) and ticketing platforms * Expertise in Salesforce development, configuration and best practices * Demonstrable experience in cloud and on-premise system architecture, both implementation and management * Experience deploying open source software solutions in place of commercial solutions, including low level debugging of such solutions * A software development background with experience and ability to code, debug and review, Apex, Python, JavaScript, PHP, Web frameworks (development language multilingual) * In depth experience of networking topologies, especially access and aggregation networks, including automation of provisioning using technologies such as Netconf or SSH. (Full understanding of OSI model) * Experience in working in AGILE development environment * Experience in Asset Management / GIS systems such as GE Small world, SpacialNet, or in house advantageous * High technical competency in OSS infrastructure architecture, both in Linux & Windows architecture, especially within the cloud * High technical competency for data modelling * Experience of reverse engineering undocumented legacy systems and software, including data models * Experience of Risk and Impact Assessment * Minimum associate degree required, Bachelor's degree preferred, in computer science or a related field * Software development experience (Agile or Waterfall)