Infrastructure Architect

**Overview**:
Architect and design the solution to meet the business requirements of SITA customers predominantly in the pre-sales phase (RFPs or unsolicited opportunities) with focus on deployment, infrastructure, and network architecture.
At SITA, we are meeting the new needs of travel...today Are you ready to join us?

**What you will do**
- Design the deployment architecture and infrastructure specifications
- servers and networking(LAN and WAN) for a solution to the customer’s requirements.
- Manage technical solution in response to an RFP or unsolicited case that can consist of multiple SITA products (and portfolios), which includes new or evolving technologies and SITA solution portfolios.
- Design the network solution - both LAN/WLAN (in the airport) and WAN.
- Develop the conceptual design, and high-level design, and provide suitable inputs for the low-level design.
- Develop Bill of Materials:

- Compute & Storage and Networking.
- Specifications for - Servers, Virtual Machines, Containers (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes), etc. based on guidance from SITA's product toolkits.
- Storage - including backup solution- Networking - LAN/WLAN components including switches, firewalls, etc. and WAN components including telco circuits, and also SD-WAN.
- Software Licensing requirements - Operating System, Database, Virtualization, etc.
- Other Infrastructure - Power (UPS), Racks, Cabling, etc.
- Guides and contributes to the design coordination and development solutions working with multiple parties both internally and externally.
- Contributes to the transfer of projects for implementation.
- Interact with colleagues to gain knowledge and to share ideas.

**Qualifications**:
**Who you are**
- 5 - 8 years of experience in Information Technology, Telecom Industry, Data Centre, or Air Transport Industry technology in a technical Pre-Sales role
- Proven track record in producing communicating and documenting successful technical customer solutions
- Proven track record in managing solution proposals, costing, and customer presentation with great level of details.
- Solid experience in designing compute, storage, and networking solutions in all possible deployment scenarios - on premise, virtualized environment, private cloud, public cloud, or a mix.
- Solid experience in network design - LAN/WLAN, and WAN.
- Solid experience in Security: IPSEC, Access-list, NAT, understanding of Firewall functions
- Understanding of Cloud Connectivity such as AWS Direct Connect, Azure Express Route is a great plus
- Understanding of Cloud Security such as Zscaler, Cisco umbrella is a great plus
- Understanding of Cisco SDWAN architecture is a great plus
- Understanding of Versa SDWAN architecture is a great plus
- Good knowledge of Visio, competence in Excel and PowerPoint.
- Network design and standard vendor products
- Server sizing (virtualized environment and cloud) and software licensing
- Commercial Acumen
- Degree or equivalent experience in Engineering or Computer Technologies.

**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**
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: Pre-Sales, Server Sizing, CPU models and cores, VM sizing, VMWare, OS licensing, Containers sizing, Cloud
- IaaS and PaaS.