PLM Infrastructure Architect (Secret Clearance)

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Job description

Principle Infrastructure Architect (Secret Clearance)

Location(s): On-site in either St Louis, MO, El Segundo, CA or Kent, WA

Clearance: Active Secret

Position Overview:

As a PLM Infrastructure Architect, you are the point person for building a strong relationship with customers and helping them realize their vision within their industry. This position requires excellent interpersonal skills, AWS skills, DevOps skills, technical leadership skills, process improvement skills as well as Teamcenter PLM installation, administration, and upgrade skills. As part of the Professional Services team, you will work with Consultants, Solution Architects, Project Managers, Industry Experts and Product Development teams to ensure project and customer success. Understand and demonstrate how our PLM services will impact and integrate with customers' initiatives, business drivers to deliver value.

Responsibilities:

Leverage industry best practices and templates for the PLM Software solution delivered to provide customer value.

Lead project activities to conduct system performance reviews and define configuration settings for optimal system performance.

Analyze and translate infrastructure requirements into an architectural blueprint that outlines solutions that integrate across applications, systems and platforms to achieve business objectives.

Design the Deployment Architecture and determine infrastructure hardware sizing aligned with the customer strategy, roadmap, IT policies, and standards.

Defines activities to analyze, tune and monitor customer environments for optimal performance and stability for PLM products.

Comprehend customization / software extension points of PLM products and determine the impact of customization on the hardware infrastructure design.

Provide advice and support for appropriate go live and post-production activities utilizing Best Practices.

Support project management activities to control scope, cost, schedule, and quality.

Communicate project processes, progress by interacting with the customer to support customer expectations and support customer adoption.

Implementation of the overall Teamcenter PLM Solution, which includes installation and upgrade activities, as well as integration with other software applications.

Required Knowledge/Skills, Education, and Experience:

BS degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Technology or equivalent knowledge of PLM.

Working knowledge of the following: UNIX, LINUX, Windows Servers, heterogeneous network environments, virtualized hardware environments, web servers, cloud computing, automation scripting, proxy server, Active Directory, SAML, SSL, SSO, Java EE and .NET web tier, Oracle and Microsoft SQL databases.

10+ years of experience writing Terraform and AWS CloudFormation templates.

10+ years of experience developing DevOps solutions from scratch using tools such as Ansible, Jenkins, Packer, AWS Code and related products.

Ability to build code pipelines and support deployment activities.

Ability to write scripts in Javascript, Bash, Python, or similar.

A good understanding of foundational cloud components (e.g.: VPN, Direct Connect, IAM, CloudWatch, VPC, "cross account" capabilities).

Knowledge and application of container, orchestration, and container platform technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and OpenShift.

Familiarity with the Department of Defense (DoD) Cloud Computing Security Requirements Guide and Risk Management Framework.

Experience leading a group of consultants during a software implementation.

Multiple years working in a customer facing environment.

Good communication skills at various levels throughout an organization.

A self-starter with strong communication skills.

Willingness and ability to travel up to 75%.

Skills that will set you apart from the rest:

5+ years of experience implementing Teamcenter solutions or similar products, such as Enovia, ePMD, Windchill, Aras Innovator or Agile.

Previous experience with Enterprise PLM, ERP or MES implementations. Specifically, in the set up and maintenance of test and production environments, as well as promote to production activities.

AWS associate level certifications or higher.

CompTIA Security+ Certification.

Security Requirements:

Candidate must be a United States Citizen with the ability to obtain and maintain a U.S. Government Security Clearance

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